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during fighting or wrestling with playmates. https://s3.amazonaws.com/n-naturist/nudism-family.html of human dick are
frequently in association with aggressive or awful dream situations. It's been
Stressed that member-exhibition can have a purely competitive function, and that the
contraction of the muscular tissue of the human member, causing the erection,
may happen without erotic arousal, as an expression of aggression. 32
Many scholars point out that the erect member may symbolize dominance and
power.
power with the power of the spear, the sword and the axe as is evident from their
petroglyphs. Other military objects, especially clubs, can carry comparable
phallic symbolism.
The giant ancient body cut in the chalk downs near Cerne Abbas in England
34 Supernatural power is regularly
29. Wolfgang Wickler, "Socio-Sexual Signs," in Morris, PrimaleEthology, pp. 1 I I, 116; Burkert, Structure
and History. p. 45 (quote); H. Detley et al., "Studies in Social and Sexual Behavior of the Squirrel Monkey
30. H. Hooton, "The Value of Primate Studies in Anthropology," Human Biology 26 (1954): 179-88.
31. Wickler, "Socio-Sexual Signs," p. 128. Paul D. MacLean, "Awesome Findings Relevant to the Development of
combative behaviour even in the nursing babe, that will angrily fight the breast if no milk is approaching, and at
the same time develop penile erections."
32. S. https://s3.amazonaws.com/n-naturist/nudist-family-pics.html , Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex. Trans. by A. A. Brill (New York, 1948). p. 68; Ernest
Hartman. The Biology of Dreaming (Springfield, Mass., l967), p. 189; idem, Sleep and Dreaming (Boston.
1970). p. 209; Vanggaard. Phallos, p. 74.
33. Vanggaard, Phallos. p. 14; A. B. Ellis, Ewe-Speakin,g Peoples, pp. 41-42. Also see E.R.E.. S.V.
"Phallism."
34. Rawsom, Primitive Eroric Art. p. 73. The notion that the phallus symbolizes power is still common among
some primitive tribes. In British New Guinea when the harpoon manufacturer chooses a. tree which looks fit for the
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conceptualized by the Apaches as phallic in source. In addition the Apaches
equate arrow and phallus in their own everyday conversation. 35
There exists a large phallus symbolism that according to some authorities
even contains sceptre, mace, etc. The Egyptian king of the gods Amon-Re is
depicted in the temple at Karnak with a very big erect phallus3(j Osiris, the
Guardian of Egypt, was signified on statuary with the phallus exposed and
erect. The exaggerated sexual organs of the early Roman, Greek and Egyptian
phallic deities are in agreement with the value attached to sexual virility
and power. The Greek herms shared a message of power and protection.
the hamlet and market place, "while exhibiting moral epigrams, marked the
territory of the tyrant." In early Scandinavia the statue of god Frey or Frico
was equipped with a large phallus. In the National Museum of Copenhagen
There's a wooden image of a phallic god from the Celtic Iron Age.37
The phallic signal was also a gesture against the evil eye and disorder. In some
cases the exhibit of the phallus as a means of combating the effects of the evil
little doubt that among some cultures, and on special occasions nudity is
practiced with this specific objective in view. 38 Amulets of phallic nature were, and
still stay in some parts of the world, the most common for the prevention of
Disorder and the protection from death in battle, evil spirits, evil eye and other
supernatural calamities. They've been made and worn throughout Europe, as well
35. pp. 223-25.
36. Wickler, "Socio-Sexual Signs," 129-3 I, f. 17. For more on the phallic symbolism in Egypt and Italy, see
Elworthy, Evil Eye, pp. 153-55.
37. Scott, Phallic Worship, p. 55; Burke & Construction and History, p. 40 (quotation); Vanggaard, Phallos, pp.
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