Phallus — Mendes

Lost organ and consecrated replica

The anatomical identity is Osiris's phallus, placed at the pelvic midline as the one part Plutarch says was not recovered and was replaced by a consecrated replica. Mendes is the relic-site claim rendered here in the later body-as-landscape synthesis requested for this system, but Plutarch himself names the river and fish rather than Mendes, so this point has the widest uncertainty.

Head — Abydos / MemphisRight eye — HeliopolisLeft eye — LetopolisMouth and tongue — White Wall (Memphis)Neck — Diospolis ParvaHeart — BusirisRight hand — Athribite nomeLeft hand — SaisLiver — Heracleopolis (Naref)Spleen — Hermopolis ParvaBackbone — White Wall / RosetauRight leg and foot — Letopolis nomeLeft leg and foot — AbydosPhallus — MendesPhallus — Mendes

Point 14 of 14 in Osiris — the fourteen scattered parts

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride §18 (358E) (secondary_translation)

Plutarch explicitly says Isis did not recover the male member, that fish consumed it in the river, and that she consecrated a replica. He does not name Mendes as its site.

J. Gwyn Griffiths, The Origins of Osiris and His Cult (scholarly_modern)

Supports the fertility and restoration significance of the phallus motif and the caution needed when harmonising local cult traditions.

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