“No real man can compete” with the naked statue of the god of wine and fertility, Mr Sgarbi added. But Florentines were infuriated by the tourist’s behaviour and are demanding greater ...

Mercury — whose Greek god counterpart is the immortal ... Shepheard also gave some insight into the phallic statue, saying it was designed by the Celts as a fertility effigy to praise the ...

From 1984 to 2004, a towering statue of a fertility god from a 1950s Hollywood movie, that to some resembled a demon, sat off Route 13 across the Smyrna Rest Area. It served as a roadside ...

The statue of Baal, which sat on the side of U.S. 13 from 1984 to 2004, may have looked like a demon but it represented a male "God of the flesh" or fertility god. (The term baal is used to refer ...

A 2,000-year-old miniature statue of a small man with an ... who says it could have been a fertility idol based on the Roman god Mercury. “This male figure with its hinged oversized phallus ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient Egyptians began worshipping Hathor, a powerful goddess associated with love, fertility ... became associated with the sun god Ra — sometimes as his wife ...