The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
A Phrygian god of fertility, of gardens, bees, goats and sheep. In Greece, he was unknown until the Macedonian hegemony, and his cult never assumed significant proportions, either in Greece or in Rome.
His father was said to be → Dionysos, and his mother → Aphrodíte, the goddess of love. His cult was most honoured in Asia Minor, and in Lampsakos, on the Hellespont, he is even supposed to have been the most important figure in their pantheon. He was represented as an ugly, satyr-like man with exaggerated genitals. Priapos played a second part too, as the patron of fishermen and sailors.
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