ithyphallus

== English == === Etymology === From the Ancient Greek ἰθύφαλλος (ithúphallos, “Bacchic phallus," literally "straight penis”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭthĭfăʹləs, IPA(key): /ɪθɪˈfæləs/ === Noun === ithyphallus (plural ithyphalli) (chiefly archaeology) A depiction of an erect penis. 1757, John-Henry Grose, A Voyage to the East-Indies with Observations on Various Parts There, Chapter VIII (Of the Gentoo Religion): At the first view indeed one would imagine that this Indian effigy was, especially from this application of it, meant for a kind of representation of a Phallus, or Ithyphallus […] 1936, Jacques LeClercq, translation of François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III, Chapter 19: "First," he said deliberately, "whatever women see, they never think, imagine or conceive it save in terms of the stout, stiff-standing deities Ithyphallos and Penis Erectus. […] " 1990, Raymond B. Waddington, "'All in All': Shakespeare, Milton, Donne and the Soul-in-Body Topos," English Literary Renaissance, Vol. 20, no. 1 (describing engravings by Marcantonio Raimondi to which Pietro Aretino wrote his Sonetti Lussuriosi ("lust sonnets) (1526) to accompany): The eyebrow is a small, curved penis, as are the lips; the swell of the cheekbone is indicated by testes; likewise the chin; the nose and nostril are doubled by the penis and testes combination. The phalli, except those curved for anatomical verisimilitude, are depicted erect; a prominent ithyphallus in the hair configuration, extending forward from where the ear would be located and ending beneath the chin, is presented in the act of ejaculation. ==== Related terms ==== ithyphallian (obsolete) ithyphallic phallus