QUOTE(Typical_chinese @ Dec 8 2008, 05:21 AM)
Thanks for the lovely info Maloa.
I was thinking that does Pharakit is something related to Kanamara Matsuri in Japan?
Is Pharakit the best amulet for attracting other sexes?
My dad is also a fan of Thai amulets. He wears 3 of them all the time.
hello typical chinese..
er...kanamara matsuri is like a festival that they celebrate in japan...pharakit is an object..
actually few parts of the world worship it...
in pharakit from thai is related to indian's hindu god..lord shiva..
er...actually pharakit is an allrounder...unless u can find some really obscene one..then those are mainly for metta mahasaneh(opposite sex attraction)..
actually there are alot of amulets or monks that are good in wisha /magic for metta mahasaneh..
if you are interested in getting a pharakit.,i can help you source some that fits within your budget.
this article copied from Wikipedia..credits to the writer..
Ancient Egypt
The Ancient Egyptians related the cult of phallus with Osiris. When Osiris' body was cut in 13 pieces, Seth scattered them all over Egypt and his wife Isis retrieved all of them except one, his penis, which was swallowed by a fish (see the Legend of Osiris and Isis).
The phallus was a symbol of fertility, and the god Min was often depicted ithyphallic (with an erect penis).
Ancient Greece
In traditional Greek mythology, Hermes, god of boundaries and exchange (popularly the messenger god) was considered to be a phallic deity by association with representations of him on herms (pillars) featuring a phallus. There is no scholarly consensus on this depiction and it would be speculation to consider Hermes a type of fertility god.
Pan, son of Hermes, was often depicted as having an exaggerated erect phallus.
Priapus was a Greek god of fertility whose symbol was an exaggerated phallus. The son of Aphrodite and either Dionysus or Adonis, according to different forms of the original myth, he was the protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens, and male genitalia. His name is the origin of the medical term priapism.
Ancient Japan
The Mara Kannon shrine ļ¼éŗ»ē¾
č¦³é³ćor ć¾ćććć®ćļ¼in Nagato city, Yamaguchi prefecture, is one of many fertility shrines in Japan that still exist today. Also present in festivals such as the Danjiri Matsuri ļ¼ć ćććē„ļ¼in Kishiwada city, Osaka prefecture, and the Kanamara Matsuri, in Kawasaki city, though historically phallus adoration was more widespread.
Ancient Rome
Ancient Romans wore phallic jewelry as talismans against the evil eye.
Ancient Scandinavia
The Norse god Freyr was a phallic deity, representing male fertility and love.
The short story Vƶlsa Ć¾Ć”ttr describes a family of Norwegians worshipping a preserved horse penis.
Balkans
Kuker is a divinity personifying fecundity, sometimes in Bulgaria and Serbia it is a plural divinity. In Bulgaria, a ritual spectacle of spring (a sort of carnival performed by Kukeri) takes place after a scenario of folk theatre, in which Kuker's role is interpreted by a man attired in a sheep- or goat-pelt, wearing a horned mask and girded with a large wooden phallus. During the ritual, various physiological acts are interpreted, including the sexual act, as a symbol of the god's sacred marriage, while the symbolical wife, appearing pregnant, mimes the pains of giving birth. This ritual inaugurates the labours of the fields (ploughing, sowing) and is carried out with the participation of numerous allegorical personages, among which is the Emperor and his entourage.[3]
India
In Tantric Shaivism a symbolic marker, the lingam is used for worship of the Hindu God Shiva. In related art the linga or lingam is the depiction of Shiva for example: mukhalinga) or cosmic pillar.This pillar is the worship focus of the Hindu temple, and is often situated within a yoni, indicating a balance between male and female creative energies. Fertility is not the limit of reference derived from these sculptures, more generally they may refer to abstract principles of creation. Tantrism should not be generalized to all forms of Hindu worship.
Christopher Isherwood addresses the misinterpretation of the linga as a sex symbol as follows[4] ā
It has been claimed by some foreign scholars that the linga and its surrounding basin are sexual symbols, representing the male and the female organs respectively. Well ā anything can be regarded as a symbol of anything; that much is obvious. There are people who have chosen to see sexual symbolism in the spire and the font of a Christian church. But Christians do not recognize this symbolism; and even the most hostile critics of Christianity cannot pretend that it is a sex-cult. The same is true of the cult of Shiva.
It does not even seem probable that the linga was sexual in its origin. For we find, in the history both of Hinduism and Buddhism, that poor devotees were accustomed to dedicate to God a model of a temple or tope (a dome-shaped monument) in imitation of wealthy devotees who dedicated full-sized buildings. So the linga may well have begun as a monument in miniature.ā¦One of the greatest causes of misunderstanding of Hinduism by foreign scholars is perhaps a subconsciously respected tradition that God must be one sex only, or at least only one sex at a time.
North & South America
Figures of Kokopelli and Itzamna (as the Mayan tonsured maize god) in Pre-Columbian America often include phallic content.
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