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I seem to remember reading a work on Egyptology which I cannot now track
down, describing the religion of the priests of Amun-Re in the temples of
Karnak(?). The main activity of the priests at worship was to manually
masturbate before the statue of Amun, and then ritually eat the semen thus
produced. The statue of Amun was an "alpha male" with an enlarged sexual
organ sticking straight out in front. Ptolemy's(?) troops were so disgusted
with this that they struck off the offending member, which was how Manetho
and later archaeologists discovered things. A few statues of Amun were found
with everything still in place. Crudely carved hands and phalluses were also
discovered as religious artefacts.
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