Sentences with phrase «phallic symbol in»

Fertility shrines are carved into the rock face here, with local Thais placing phallic symbols in them to bring them good luck.

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In the early days of his influence on literary studies, his theories proved particularly pernicious, sending scholars scurrying after phallic symbols and psychoanalyzing authors.

Instead of murals of Edelweiss, in Bhutan they have murals of phalli, each delicately decorated with bows and ribbons... for in Buddhist Bhutan, the phallic symbol is one of good luck and prosperity.

Artifacts from that period — the obese human and animal figurines and the phallic symbols carved in stone or bone and modeled in clay — point to the idea that the people had an obsession with the living world and its successful propagation through the descent group or lineage.

Now they sell factory made African masks, Budah statues, wooden Phallic symbols and other woodcarvings, most likely all made in outside Indonesia.

Actually, there are two caves next to each others filled in with gigantic wooden phallic symbols.

This sculptural structure can be interpreted as a reference to the unicorn as a medieval symbol of purity and operates in direct contrast to its potential phallic association.

Not only in the sense that it is it treated as a folkloric fertility symbol despite its debated origins, but also in terms of traditional monumental sculpture: solitary in the changing landscape, the hyper - phallic man is here made to bend at the knees and kneel as in prayer.

Though rife with phallic weaponry, contentious battle scenes, or shadowy figures in the midst of an assault, her illustrations include playful symbols of childhood and recreation applied in soft shining colors making otherwise horrifying revelations seem only attractively unsettling.

His # 20,000 prize, presented by Sir Peter Blake, will have to be shared with Claire, the burliest glamour girl in town, whose ruched satin «coming out dress», exquisitely embroidered with phallic symbols, hangs on one wall of his exhibition gallery.

Untitled (2010) shows a recurrent influence in the practice of Daniel Sinsel, namely a kind of latent eroticism of neoclassicism, which is reflected in his use of the male form and phallic symbols.

In its conflation of penis and sword, the sculpture blurs metaphor and literalism in a way that echoes many of Lucas's earlier works (swords are often perceived as phallic symbols), for instance Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab in which a slang metaphor for the female body is made literaIn its conflation of penis and sword, the sculpture blurs metaphor and literalism in a way that echoes many of Lucas's earlier works (swords are often perceived as phallic symbols), for instance Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab in which a slang metaphor for the female body is made literain a way that echoes many of Lucas's earlier works (swords are often perceived as phallic symbols), for instance Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab in which a slang metaphor for the female body is made literain which a slang metaphor for the female body is made literal.