"No Trespassing" images of yore
This sort of goes along with the "Nothing here is worth dying for" thread...
In Greek mythology, Priapus was a minor rustic fertility god , protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia. (Roman equivalent: Mutinus Mutunus.)
He was a son of Aphrodite by Dionysus, Hermes, or Adonis
One of the most famous images of Priapus is that from the House of the Vettii in Pompeii; it is a wall fresco in which Priapus is weighing his phallus against a bag full of money and it appears that his phallus is heavier.
At Helicon in Boeotia, the travel-writer Pausanias pointed out a statue of Priapus that was "worth seeing".
Sculptures of Priapus with large, erect genitalia were placed in gardens and fields to guarantee an abundant crop. For the Romans, his statue was used as a scarecrow and his erect peenis was thought to frighten thieves. Epigrams collected in Priapeia (treated below) show Priapus using sodomy as a threat toward transgressors of the boundaries he protected like a herm:
I warn you, my lad, you will be sodomised; you, my girl, I shall futter; for the thief who is bearded, a third punishment remains."
"... If I do seize you . . . you shall be so stretched that you will think your anus never had any wrinkles."
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapus
In Greek mythology, Priapus was a minor rustic fertility god , protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia. (Roman equivalent: Mutinus Mutunus.)
He was a son of Aphrodite by Dionysus, Hermes, or Adonis
One of the most famous images of Priapus is that from the House of the Vettii in Pompeii; it is a wall fresco in which Priapus is weighing his phallus against a bag full of money and it appears that his phallus is heavier.
At Helicon in Boeotia, the travel-writer Pausanias pointed out a statue of Priapus that was "worth seeing".
Sculptures of Priapus with large, erect genitalia were placed in gardens and fields to guarantee an abundant crop. For the Romans, his statue was used as a scarecrow and his erect peenis was thought to frighten thieves. Epigrams collected in Priapeia (treated below) show Priapus using sodomy as a threat toward transgressors of the boundaries he protected like a herm:
I warn you, my lad, you will be sodomised; you, my girl, I shall futter; for the thief who is bearded, a third punishment remains."
"... If I do seize you . . . you shall be so stretched that you will think your anus never had any wrinkles."
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapus
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quote:Originally posted by Henry0Reilly
This sort of goes along with the "Nothing here is worth dying for" thread...
In Greek mythology, Priapus (Ancient Greek: #928;#961;#943;#945;#960;#959;#962;) was a minor rustic fertility god , protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia. (Roman equivalent: Mutinus Mutunus.)
He was a son of Aphrodite by Dionysus, Hermes, or Adonis
One of the most famous images of Priapus is that from the House of the Vettii in Pompeii; it is a wall fresco in which Priapus is weighing his phallus against a bag full of money and it appears that his phallus is heavier.
At Helicon in Boeotia, the travel-writer Pausanias pointed out a statue of Priapus that was "worth seeing".
Sculptures of Priapus with large, erect genitalia were placed in gardens and fields to guarantee an abundant crop. For the Romans, his statue was used as a scarecrow and his erect peenis was thought to frighten thieves. Epigrams collected in Priapeia (treated below) show Priapus using sodomy as a threat toward transgressors of the boundaries he protected like a herm:
I warn you, my lad, you will be sodomised; you, my girl, I shall futter; for the thief who is bearded, a third punishment remains."
"... If I do seize you . . . you shall be so stretched that you will think your anus never had any wrinkles."
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapus
This is also where the word,in English,"PRIAPISM" comes from.
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Henry:
What you been smoking?0 -
It would really suck to be the guy with the beard. 0 -
I bet the only people who robbed that dude were gay.[8D] 0 -
Romans ripped off one of the Egyptian dieties (the Chinese of their times[:D]). I don't recall dude's name (wasn't worth remembering?).
I thought with the "No Trespassing" heading I was in for a learning but not the case.0 -
"....and survivors will be @$#%$@ again!" 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Warpig883
It would really suck to be the guy with the beard.
LMAO...[:o)][:D][:D]...Loko0 -
"show Priapus using sodomy as a threat toward transgressors of the boundaries he protected"
This sounds like the customs the mountaineers used in "Deliverance."
"Let me hear you squeal like a pig..."0 -
After participating in the last thread about the treatment of those who break-and-enter, then reading this, something clicked -- apparently, to some, the measure of how civilized we are is gauged by how much fecal matter we're willing to swallow in the course of protecting the rights and safety of those who break the law. Obviously, the Greeks weren't nearly so enlightened as we, or just had a fondness for sodomy.... Reminds me of the scene from "History of the World, Part One", in which someone in a crowd of Romans shouts that the punishment for lawbreaking is to have a live snake shoved -- well, you know. To which a Roman centurion responds -- uh, no, but that's very imaginative....
I had a friend long ago who kept a red-tailed hawk tethered in his back yard. In the deep dark hours of one late night, a passing drug addict thought my buddy's back picture window would be so-o-o easy to break-and-enter through. The police were called due to the screams coming from the back yard after the hawk (a very territorial breed) cornered the trespasser against the house. The guy was still on whatever substance he was stealing to buy more of -- went to jail swearing that Satan had attacked him in the yard.
I wonder how many civil rights were violated that night. [:D]
A bit off-topic, but amusing, I thought.0
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