Descrizione
HISTORY
Originally, in pagan religions, the phallus was the cosmogonic symbol of the virile member in erection. But it could also be represented at rest.
Rites and prayers were dedicated to it, and for centuries it was the object of power, taboo, mystery.
The term phallus derives from the Latin phallus, from the Greek φαλλός-phallós, to be connected to the Sanskrit root phialat (= to sprout, fruit) or to the root of the proto-Indo-European language bʰel-phal (= to swell, swell).
ETIMOLOGY
For the etymology penis comes from the Latin penis, tail, then virile member). It possesses an uncontrollable and mysterious energy, capable of procreating.
According to the ancient grammarian Festus, penis would derive from hanging, because it hangs like a tail. In ancient times there are many traces of the worship of the phallus-penis: the obelisks in Egypt, the monuments of Delos, the phallic constructions of Persia and Phenicia.
For the Babylonians, the god Enki had created the two rivers Tigris and the Euphrates with the force of his penis.
The Assyrians and Phoenicians worshiped the god Kmul, a divinity with a huge member, a powerful generator of life.
In biblical Canaan, kings ate the penis of their predecessor to assimilate its power.
The ancient Israelite populations swore by placing their hand on the organ, so much so that the etymology testicles, from the Latin testes, meaning small witnesses, derives from this custom.
Persio, to designate the testicles, used a diminutive of testes (plural), as if to mean the two witnesses of the sexual act.
