Priapos isn't just a god of dicks, bees, and abundant orchards. He was also a patron god for navigators on the sea, of merchant sailors in #ancientGreece and Rome. Apotropaic items carried on board by mariners in the forms of a terracotta phallus and a wooden #Priapos figure were found in shipwrecks, coinciding with the use of wooden Priapic markers erected in areas of dangerous passage or particular landing areas for sailors.
Priapos isn't just a god of dicks, bees, and abundant orchards. He was also a patron god for navigators on the sea, of merchant sailors in ancient Greece and Rome. Apotropaic items carried on board by mariners in the forms of a terracotta phallus and a wooden Priapos figure were found in shipwrecks, coinciding with the use of wooden Priapic markers erected in areas of dangerous passage or particular landing areas for sailors.
I give you a Nereid fanny for #FannyFriday. It is just the mons veneris, hairless to match the Graeco-Roman beauty ideal. It may be that a slit is too difficult to do in a mosaic as there are other artworks depicting it. But this one erases that part of the #vulva.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#MerMay is upon us and I'm starting out with a vase painting of #Hermes with the sea goddess Thetis, leader of the fifty daughters of Nereus & mother of Achilles. In the scene shown, she might be on her way to Olympos, summoned by Zeus to persuade #Achilles to return Hektor's body.
🏛 Hermes following #Thetis in her chariot, Terracotta lekythos ca 500 BCE