Meanings
- Having three penises.
[...] three-headed and three-faced deities (and even a triphallic Mercury) and its triads of mother goddesses; [...]
1987, The Encyclopedia of Religion, page 1512 more examples
In his festivals, he further tells us, a water-pitcher was carried, as emblematic of his nature and powers, together with leaves of the fig-tree, for an equally obvious reason, while in his statue he was represented triphallic.
1853, Leopold Hartley Grindon, The Sexuality of Nature, page 15[...] and again this is an opportunity for an obscene remark on their virility (Cantharus and his gang are triphallic).
1976, Graham Anderson, Studies in Lucian's Comic Fiction, page 103
Origin
Translations
French triphalle, triphallique
- triphallehaving three penises
- triphalliquehaving three penises
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