The Animal Mother, she notes, was eventually replaced by images related to fertility, including hybrid bird-women, ithyphallic men, pregnant animals, and women giving birth; these motifs and their accompanying beliefs seem to have been transmitted from the Minusinsk Basin to the Sayan and Altai uplifts during the Bronze Age.

(6) The only indication that the subjects might be anything unusual comes in the list of stylistic features, between such statements as 'Fat bellies are rendered by parallel curved brown lines' and 'The open flat hand is particularly common: there is usually a single curving black line at the root of the fingers'; when he states that 'Silens [his word for satyrs] are not ithyphallic '.

Snarl suck-suck-suck waaah A racing motorcycle running through The gears, on song; the ithyphallic faired Shape of speed waaah an Italian's glans-bared Rosso di competizione ...

(46) Karen Bassi 1998:139 makes the sobering observation that 'while Priapus, satyrs, and the ithyphallic comic actors evoke laughter, the hyperbolic exposure of the phallos as costume is the overt concealment of the real thing, an overdetermined apotropaic gesture against emasculation'.

" Ithyphallic Males Behaving Badly; or, Satyr Drama as Gendered Tragic Ending." In Wyke 1998, 13-38.

Ithyphallic is archeology-talk for "erect penis," and nearly all of the males have one.

If Lou does feel the stimulus of New Mexico "like a sort of sex passion" that serves to intensify her ego, Lawrence adds a reiterated caveat in relation to the tree's atavistic qualities: "A passionless, non-phallic column, rising in the shadows of the pre-sexual world, before the hot-blooded ithyphallic column ever erected itself" (144, emphases mine).