Just spotted an interesting archaeological news item about King Tutankhamun. It seems that in the late 1960’s a series of x-rays were taken of the mummified pharoah, and something was missing: his royal penis. According to Discovery News, ” Speculation abounded that the penis had been stolen and sold.”

The news article doesn’t mention it at all, but this seems very noteworthy if you know a little bit about Egyptian mythology, specifically the legends surrounding Osiris, the dying God of vegetation. Traditionally, Osiris is murdered by his brother Set or Seth, and his body dismembered:

“But after she [i.e., Isis] had brought it [i.e. Osiris’ body] back to Egypt, Seth managed to get hold of Osiris’s body again and cut it up into fourteen parts, which she scattered all over Egypt. Then Isis went out to search for Osiris a second time and buried each part where she found it (hence the many tombs of Osiris tht exist in Egypt). The only part that she did not find was the god’s penis, for Seth had thrown it into the river, where it had been eaten by a fish; Isis therefore fashioned a substitute penis to put in its place. She had also had sexual intercourse with Osisis after his death, which resulted in the conception and birth of his posthumous son, Harpocrates, Horus-the-child. Osiris became king of the netherworld, and Horus proceeded to fight with Seth…”

Seth and Horus then fought, and Seth took out Horus’s eye, which Thoth later found - from which is derived the symbol of the Eye of Horus. Speaking of the Eye of Horus, King Tut’s body went through a detailed CT scan last year, which uncovered that the penis wasn’t missing at all, but “lay loose in the sand around the king’s body.”
In the light of the myth above, it kind of makes me wonder - mystically - what will be conceived now that the organ has been recovered.