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Those of Western religious sentiment would be even more shocked to learn that the Hebrew EL, the very same god who, under the name ELohim, is believed to have created the world, was said to have been equipped with a long penis.
What was this sacred virile member attached to god?
Among the Egyptians, the phallus of Ra was highly honored.
This is indicated in the praises glorifying the god.
As it was written:
>"Who is this?"
And the answer is given:
>"It is Osiris.''
But, as an alternative, which, in this case, as in many others, boils down to the same thing, the passage continues with:
>"Others, however, say that his name is Ra, and that the god who dwelleth in Amentet is the phallus of Ra, wherewith he had union with himself. "
The most popular ithyphallic god of Egypt was Min.
not enough is known about this deity to reach a definite conclusion concerning his genesis.
The God Shu, its interesting to note that this god was inter alia lauded as "Lord of the Phallus. "
In the Pyramid Texts, he is actually equated with the male organ of Atum (a Saturnian Personification).
What is even more revealing, however, is the fact that, in some depictions, the heaven sustaining Shu is replaced with the phallus of Geb.
It is then evident that the phallus of the deity was itself believed to have acted as the support of heaven much in the same manner that the single leg of the god did.
As Diodorus reported, it was not only the Egyptians who consecrated "that member" in their initiatory rites, but quite a few other nations.