Have you ever wondered about the length
of the longest Penis in the world ! How long can it possibly be? The truth may
be way beyond your imagination.
The name that rises with the
unimaginable answer is Priapus.
In Greek mythology, Priapus or Priapos (Ancient Greek: Πρίαπος), was
described as the son of Aphrodite by Dionysus,
or the son of Dionysus and Chione, perhaps as the father or son of Hermes and the son of Zeus or Pan. He was a rustic
fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia. According
to legend, Hera cursed him with impotence, ugliness
and foul-mindedness while he was still in Aphrodite's womb, in revenge for the
hero Paris having
the temerity to judge Aphrodite more beautiful than Hera. The other gods refused to allow him
to live on Mount Olympus and threw him down to Earth, leaving
him on a hillside. He was eventually found by shepherds and was brought up by
them.
Priapus is marked by his absurdly
oversized, permanent erection, which gave rise to the medical term priapism. He became a
popular figure in Roman erotic art and Latin
literature, and is the subject of the often humorously obscene
collection of verse called the Priapeia.
Priapus joined Pan and the satyrs as a spirit of fertility and growth,
though he was perennially frustrated by his impotence. In a ribald anecdote
told by Ovid, he attempted to rape the nymph Lotis but
was thwarted by an ass,
whose braying caused him to lose his erection at the critical moment and woke
Lotis. He pursued the nymph until the gods took pity on her and turned her into
a lotus plant.
The episode gave him a lasting hatred of asses and a willingness to see them
destroyed in his honour. The
emblem of his lustful nature was his permanent erection and his giant penis.
Long after the fall of Rome and the rise of Christianity,
Priapus continued to be invoked as a symbol of health and fertility. The 13th
century Lanercost
Chronicle, a history of northern England and Scotland, records a
"lay Cistercian brother" erecting a statue of
Priapus (simulacrum Priapi statuere) in an attempt to end an outbreak of
cattle disease.
In the 1980s, D. F. Cassidy founded the St.
Priapus Church as
a modern church centred on worship of the phallus.
Priapus In Literature
Priapus' iconic attribute was his priapism (permanently
erect penis);
he probably absorbed some pre-existing ithyphallic deities
as his cult developed. He was represented in a variety of ways, most commonly
as a misshapen gnome-like figure with an enormous erect phallus. Statues of
Priapus were common in ancient Greece and Rome, standing in gardens or at
doorways and crossroads. To propitiate Priapus, the traveller would stroke the
statue's penis as he passed by. The Athenians often
conflated Priapus with Hermes, the god of boundaries, and depicted a hybrid deity
with a winged helmet, sandals and huge erection.
Statues of Priapus were often hung with signs bearing epigrams,
collected in Priapeia (treated below),
which threatened sexual assaulttowards transgressors of the
boundaries that he protected:
Percidere, puer,
moneo; futuere, puella;
barbatum furem
tertia poena manet.
Femina si furtum
faciet mihi virve puerve,
haec cunnum,
caput hic praebeat, ille nates.
Per medios ibit
pueros mediasque puellas
mentula,
barbatis non nisi summa petet.
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I warn you, boy,
you will be screwed; girl, you will be fucked;
a third penalty
awaits the bearded thief.
If a woman
steals from me, or a man, or a boy,
let the first
give me her cunt, the second his head, the third his buttocks.
My dick will go
through the middle of boys and the middle of girls,
but with bearded
men it will aim only for the top.
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Another example comes from the works of Martial (6.73):
Non rudis indocta fecit me falce colonus:
Dispensatoris nobile cernis opus.
Nam Caeretani cultor ditissimus agri
Hos Hilarus colles et iuga laeta tenet.
Adspice, quam certo videar non ligneus ore,
Nec devota focis inguinis arma geram:
Sed mihi perpetua nunquam moritura cupresso
Phidiaci rigeat mentala digna manu.
Vicini, moneo, sanctum celebrate Priapum,
Et bis septenis parcite iugeribus.
I am not hewn from fragile elm, nor is my member
which stands stiff with a rigid shaft made from just any old wood. It is
begotten from everlasting cypress, which fears not the passage of a hundred celestial
ages nor the decay of advanced years. Fear this, evil doer, whoever you are. If
your thieving rod harms the smallest shoots of this here vine, like it or not,
this cypress rod will penetrate [i.e. sodomize] and plant a fig in you.
A number of Roman paintings of Priapus have survived. One
of the most famous images of Priapus is that from the House of the Vettii in Pompeii.
A fresco depicts
the god weighing his phallus against a bag full of money; it appears that his
phallus is heavier. In nearby Herculaneum,
an excavated snack bar has a painting of Priapus behind the bar, apparently as
a good-luck symbol for the customers
Priapus was a frequent figure in Latin erotic or
mythological verse, including the anonymous collection of poems called the Priapeia, several of which are
"spoken" by him in the first person.
In Ovid's Fasti, the nymph Lotis fell
into a drunken slumber at a feast, and Priapus seized this opportunity to
advance upon her. With stealth he approached, and just before he could embrace
her, Silenus's
donkey alerted the party with "raucous braying". Lotis awoke and
pushed Priapus away, but her only true escape was to be transformed into the lotus tree. To punish the donkey for spoiling
his opportunity, Priapus bludgeoned it to death with his gargantuan phallus. In
later versions of the story, Lotis is replaced with the virginal goddess Hestia.
Ovid's anecdote served to explain why donkeys were sacrificed to Priapus
in the city of Lampsacus on the Hellespont, where he was
worshipped among the offspring of Hermes.
Priapus is repeatedly mentioned in Petronius's Satyricon.
William Arrowsmith, in the introduction and notes to his translation of the
work, draws parallels between his hounding of the protagonist and that of Poseidon in Homer's Odyssey.
Priapus is mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Merchant's Tale", part of The Canterbury Tales. During a
description of a garden that the protagonist, Januarie, creates, Priapus is
invoked in his form as God of gardens:
Ne Priapus ne myghte nat suffise,
Though he be God of gardyns, for to telle
The beautee of the gardyn and the welle,
That stood under a laurer alwey grene.
Priapus might not suffice,
Though he be god of gardens, to tell
Of the beauty of the garden and the well
That stood under the laurel, always green.
Though he be God of gardyns, for to telle
The beautee of the gardyn and the welle,
That stood under a laurer alwey grene.
Priapus might not suffice,
Though he be god of gardens, to tell
Of the beauty of the garden and the well
That stood under the laurel, always green.
Priapus serves to remind the reader, or listening audience,
that Januarie's intentions are driven by lust and not love.
Priapus is mentioned in William
Carlos Williams's poem "Paterson". Priapus is also mentioned in
John Steinbeck's East of Eden: "She conducted
her house like a cathedral dedicated to a sad but erect Priapus."
Priapus is also mentioned in Vladimir Nabokov's ""Invitation
to a Beheading": "Or when you, with eyes closed tight,
devouring a spurting peach and then, having finished, but still swallowing,
with your mouth still full, you cannibal, your glazed eyes wandered, your
fingers were spread, your inflamed lips were all glossy, your chin trembled,
all covered with drops of the cloudy juice, which trickled down onto your bared
bosom, while the Priapus who had nourished you suddenly, with a convulsive
oath, turned his back to me, who had entered the room at the wrong
moment."
Priap[us] is mentioned as well in Nabokov's ""Lolita"":
"She was the loveliest nymphet green-red-blue Priap himself could think
up"
Although Priapus is commonly associated
with the failed attempts of rape against the
nymphs Lotis and Vesta in Ovid’s comedy Fasti and the
rather flippant treatment of the deity in urban settings, Priapus’ protection
traits can be traced back to the importance placed on the phallus in ancient
times (particularly his association with fertility and garden protection). In Greece,
the phallus was thought of to have a mind of its own, animal-like, separate
from the mind and control of the man. Represented
in its erect form, the phallus was present in almost every aspect of daily
life, reaffirming the male-dominant state of affairs in its overt presence.
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