Phallus, a symbol of the generative power of nature, being a representation of the male organ of generation, and associated with rites and ceremonies of nature-worship in the early stages of civilised life, and the worship of which was supposed to have a magic influence in inducing fertility among the flocks and herds, as well as in the soil of the earth.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Phalaris * Pharamond