Lekpa is a phallic divinity whose worship is very prevalent

throughout the Slave Coast of Africa. The phallus is

seen everywhere, in front of houses, in the roads and public places, occasionally alone, but
more frequently in
Link with the picture of Legba who is constantly represented as squatting down and looking
at the organ of
generation, which is hugely disproportionate [See Alfred B. Ellis, Ewe-Speaking Peoples of
the Slaves Coast
pp. 41-421].
26. It is believed that evil powers are often associated with intersections. Custom and law in
England
prescribed the suicide should be buried at a cross-road. Criminals were also executed at
intersections. A
similar custom exists among quite a few African tribes. Plato in his Laws (9.873) says that if a
person murders his
father, mother, brother or son subsequently the officials would execute him, and throw him
outside, naked, at a specified area
So, since intersections are believed to be the dwelling place of evil spirits,
order to ward off their danger. Ithiphallic divinities are often discovered at cross roads with
the intent of
repelling the evil powers that live there. In Japan, phallic symbols were set up on roads and
worshipped at
Junctions and frontiers as guardians of travelers. The primitive function of all ithiphallic
deities which were
For
these observations and more, see Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, S.V.
http://sm.zn7.net/out.cgi?id=00018&url=https://rudefly.com ," (hereafter mentioned as
E.R.E.
27. Wolfgang Wickler, "Socio-Sexual Signals and their Intra Specific Imitation Among
Primates," in
pp. 132, 139. The consecration of the stone-phalli that
Seem on the prehistoric Phrygian tumuli served the same purpose. These phalli were archaic
symbols of life
and immortality expressing in the clearest manner the belief that death was the source of
fresh life. [See Gorges Perrot
Lydia, Curia and Lycia (New York, 1892). p. 48; L. http://www.xxxmatureclips.com/cgi-
bin/atx/out.cgi?s=47&c=1&l=search&u=https://nudeace.com ,
p. 3571. We can find dispersed traces of the same
Reflection of this idea in Greece. A small tumulus near Megalopolis (Arcadia) with a finger of
stone standing on it
and called the "Finger Tomb" may be interpreted as a tumulus crowned with a phallus, which
is related to the
goddesses called the Maniai, whose name raises the suggestion of a Phrygian origin.
p. 357). For the narrative of the "Finger Tomb" see Pausanias 8.34.2-4. Additional
evidence was supplied by the discovery of an inscription (ca. 300 B.C.) discovered under a
rock-phallus on a
Little mount that could have been a tumulus near Thespiai, recording a commitment by the
religious officials of the
city "to the spirits of the deceased." [See Paul Jamot, "Fouilles de Thespies, "BCH 19 (1895):
3751. Additionally see Farnell.
Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of immortality. p. 357. In early graves, notably in Egypt, Norway,
Italy and India,
phalli have been entombed with the deceased, possibly to ward off evil from the dead. [See
J. A. Dulaure, Les Divinits
Gneratrices, ou Du Culte du Phallus Chez les Anciens et les Modernes (Paris, 1905), p. 43;
Philip Rawson,
Simple Erotic Art (London, 1973), p. 761.
28. p. 40. The same point of view has been expressed by other writers as well
(see Vanggaard, Phallos, Pp. 71-75, 102, 165).

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Signals dominance by display of penile erection with thigh propagating aimed at
the face of another, lower-ranking monkey. It has been pointed out that there is a
correlation between penile display and rank-position, and that the lowerranking group
members reveal substantially less genital display. In certain monkey
species there's a close link between possession of territory, territorial
"Phallic
demonstration to indicate frontiers," W. Burkert argued, "isn't to be located among
the apes, who live in the trees, but with farther relatives who hold lands."
The display of sexual organs is a rite which derived from sexual activity, yet
serving social and not reproductive functions. It really is the most powerful sign with
respect to group hierarchy, but undoubtedly distinct from the reproductive process.
It really is considered that the genital display is an important societal signal by which the
animals convey and that it's ritualized and looks to assume the significance,
"I 'm the Master."29
The importance of primate studies in anthropology has been frequently stressed.30 Erections
of human penises outside of the sexual activity may occur in