Rheims Cernunnos
Gallo-Roman relief, 1st century CE
Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
Lying Icons
Hey Pagan Artists (You Know Who You Are),
WTF?!?
What's with the circumcised dicks on those Horned Gods?
What could you possibly be thinking, to portray the god of Wild Nature in a state so profoundly unnatural as circumcision?
I realize that—in this land of routine MGM (male genital mutilation)—many Americans have never actually seen a human penis in its intact, natural state.
Ye gods, folks, what do you think (inter alia) internet gay porn is for?
I realize (difficult as it may be to believe) that, aesthetically speaking, some actually do find circumcised dicks more beautiful.
But that's no excuse. A Horned God with a circumcised dick is a contradiction in terms, a lying icon, self-falsifying.
Infant circumcision = violence against boys. Portraying our gods as circumcised sanctifies this violence.
Come on, Artists of the Pagan World: you have a responsibility here.
Repeat after me: The Horned God is not circumcised!
Steven W. Posch
Men:
If you were cut without your consent, you can undo the wrong that was done you.
"Horned God"
Enkomi, Cyprus
12th c. BCE
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Sunday, 15 September 2019
We tend to think of Him as the Two-Horned, but, of course, He's actually the Three-Horned; the Phallos is Him-in-small.
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