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List of Gods : "Priapus" - 6 records

Name ▲▼	Origin ▲▼	Description ▲▼
"Conisalus"	Greek	A daemon, who together with Orthanes and Tychon appeared in the train of Priapus. Greek
Nymph name "Lotis"	Greek	A nymph, who in her escape from the embraces of Priapus was metamorphosed into a tree, called after her Lotis. Greek
Demon name "Mutinus or Mutunus"	Roman	That is, the phallus, or Priapus, which was believed to be the most powerful averter of demons, and of all evil that resulted from pride and boastfulness, and the like. Roman
God name "Priapus"	Greek	Priapos, a son of Dionysus and Aphrodite. Aphrodite, it is said, had yielded to the embraces of Dionysus, but during his expedition to India, she became faithless to him, and lived with Adonis. On Dionysus return from India, she indeed went to meet him, but soon left him again, and went to Lampsacus on the Hellespont, to give birth to the child of the god. Greek
God name "Priapus"	Roman	God of the shade. A rural deity whose worship appears to have been restricted to the spéñïśs of the Hellespont and clearly derives from the god PRIAPOS....
God name "Tychon"	Greek	1. A god of chance or accident, was, according to Strabo, worshipped at Athens. 2. An obscene daemon, is mentioned as a companion of Aphrodite and Priapus, and seems to signify "the producer," or "the fructifier." Greek

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