If you’re ever in the East Coast town of Samcheok, be sure to check out Haesindang Park. From the English homepage of Samcheok-si:
Haesindang Park (Aebawi Legend and Fishing village folk pavilion)
Location : Sinnam-ri, Wondeok-eup
The love story of young girl and boy, tied up with Aebawi legend has been handed down, and male penis worship.
Well, thank God it’s male penis worship. Female penis worship would have been quite disconcerting.
Anyway, to get an idea of what to expect at Haesindang Park, check out these blog posts (1, 2). Be sure to check out the third photo from the bottom on the second post — to, ahem, revisit a theme discussed earlier, read the caption underneath.
Oh, and I really hope this kid’s parents don’t show this photo to his friends when they visit the home. And I have to really wonder about this guy.
(HT to reader)
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Archaeologists in 1000 years are going to have fun with that.
I chanced upon that park on a trip up the East coast with my wife shortly after we were married. It was somewhat disturbing.
Females have vestigial remnants of a penis. Perhaps it’s been inadvertant, but guys have been worshipping that kit since we all began.
When did mankind discover the clitoris, anyway? I figure it hasn’t been all that long.
A bawdy legend, eh?
Jeffery Hodges
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I saw a short documentary clip on the Japanese penis festival once ( http://keepintouchwithem.tripo.....stival.htm ).
I didn’t know Korea had a similar thing, and it’s apparently a park so it’s year round, unlike the Japanese penis festival (which, btw, is fun to say).
I think a message I tried to post got caught in the spam filter because I used the word “penis” too much. Hum.
That was great!! Good one #4!!!
Interesting.
All are circumcised;no sausages there.
Hmmm….
actually, when did Koreans start circumcision?
I think these being fully erect penises, you can’t say they are circumsized.
this was thus to satisfy a female demon. Appease a female demon with abundant statues of a dicks modeled after a horse’s dick, since it was the largest specimen these poor ignorant folk could find.
I’ve seen photos of an Indian phalic temple, where females pour milk over statues of enshrined, erect penises, and if they do it right, they are able to get pregnant.
mankind is interesting.
they worship female fertility statues, dicks, trees (still so in Korea, mentioned in the Bible for Middle Eastern rituals), etc.
i wonder how things will churn out if in the US, someone insisted they worship a penis statue in a public place.
i’m confident the ACLU won’t bother him like they do to Christians.
Mistaken.
I found Phallological Museum in Iceland.
http://www.phallus.is/
“i’m confident the ACLU won’t bother him like they do to Christians.”
Yeah, it’s simply terrible how they question/have questioned the teaching of creationism - or “intelligent design” as it is now known - in schools. I don’t think the ACLU poses any threat to Christianity in America, nor should they. Separation of church and state in the United States can be dated to Thomas Jefferson, who was probably a man of faith.
prior to JFK, even with separation of church and state, Bibles were read in public and private schools, and prayers were offered, without someguy sueing the school, the state, and the federal govt.
you keep talking about the intents of the original constitutional forefathers, but I accuse you of playing LIBERAL TIME MACHINE.
Jefferson, who fails the definition of a deacon by St. Paul, still prayed and read the Bible and believed in God. His intent was probably never to stop children or teachers from praying in high school graduations or football games.
His intent was to stop religious authority dictating govt policy, thus protecting Catholics from Protestants and Protestants from Catholics. I dare to say, he never even thought about Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, etc. The whole thing came about because of Europe’s bloody wars over mainly Christianity. Protestants and Catholics.
No such idea of separation of church and state even surfaced, despite equal or worser human suffering under Islam vs Catholic Christianity, wars lasting centuries versus under a century in the fight within Christians.
I guaranttee you the ACLU won’t get involved if I was a teacher, and I put a Buddha statue on my desk, and decorated my classroom with Bosal statues and verses from their Holy book, and said something about reincarnation and good and evil and balance vaguely referenced, even though I taught English in highschool.
it’s just people pissed off with an agenda against Christians, that’s it.