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Little is known of his cult beyond the fact that he figured in marriage ceremonies in a peculiarly indecent way; by later writers he is sometimes identified with Priapos. The Romans adopted the cult of Priapos as well as other phallicistic forms of worship; his original character appears in his rôle of patron of gardens.
There is no evidence to show that the animals connected with phallic gods were selected on account of their salacious dispositions or their sexual power. +420+. Phallicistic cults, attenuated by advance of refinement, survived long, even into Christian times, under modified forms. In such cases they become merely devices of ignorant piety.
They, as great gods of such a nature, would naturally absorb lesser phallicistic figures; but they were specialized in other directions, and Priapos remained as the distinctest embodiment of phallicistic conceptions.
Both Khem and Osiris were great gods, credited with general creative power, and popular ceremonies of a phallicistic nature might easily be attached to their cults. Bes, a less important deity, seems to have been fashioned largely by popular fancy. These ceremonies were doubtless attended with license, but they probably formed no part of Egyptian serious worship.
Religious prostitution there was in all North Semitic lands, but this is a wholly different thing from a phallicistic cult. It is supposed, however, by not a few scholars that descriptions and representations of the phallus occur in so many places as to make some sort of cult of the object probable. The passage is obscure.
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