Phallic bird
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The phallic bird is a common erosophic trope illustrating the unruliness of the male member.
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Examples of phallic birds
- Bird with phallus-head, a Greek vase painting.
- Soter Kosmoi, a bronze bust of a human torso with the head of a rooster. Au lieu of a nose or beak, the rooster features a large erect phallus.
- Anonymous phallic birds from the Codex Atlanticus
- Un priape marchant sur des pattes de coq, an engraving of a flaccid phallus, standing on rooster's legs.
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References
- Priapus Gallinaceus: The Role of the Cock in Fertility and Eroticism in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- "The Penis Possessed : Phallic Birds, Erotic Magic, and Sins of the Body, ca. 1470-1500" is an essay by Anthony Colantuono, published in The Body in Early Modern Italy.
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See also
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