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PRSR:Mesopotamia Part III: Išaru (babylonian)
Penis Root Special Report: Mesopotamia
Part 3: Cocks over Babylon
In the first part of the PRSR:Mesopotamia, we looked at the rise of the city-states of Sumer, the creation of the world's oldest system of writing, cuneiform, and a just fantastic primitive drawing of a wiener (which became the first written symbol for the wiener). The second ( Read more... ) -
PRSR:Mesopotamia Part II: Išarum (akkadian)
Penis Root Special Report: Mesopotamia
Part 2: Akkad and the Imperial (word for) Penis (Išarum)
Sometime around 2400BCE, the high-priestess of the city of Azupiranu conceived a child. She suffered her pregnancy in secret and, also in secret, bore a son. For whatever reason, she set this infant in a reed basket, sealed the lid, and set the ( Read more... ) -
PRSR:Mesopotamia Part I: Gìš (sumerian)
Penis Root Special Report: Mesopotamia
Part 1: The Origin of Writing and The Sumerian Penisogram
Having stalled on the PRSR:IE for too long, it is time to plough ahead with a different part of the world. So we're going to do Mesopotamia and we're going to modify the format somewhat. This first part will deal with the evolution of writing in ( Read more... ) -
Noov (hmong)
Outside of the Han majority, there are 55 ethnic groups recognized by the Chinese government. One of these groups is the Hmong, although the Chinese government lumps them into a meta-group contentiously called the MiaoThere have been some zany theories as to the origin of the Hmong, including attempts to relate them to Mesopotamian cultures, but ( Read more... ) -
Kontol (bahasa indonesia)
Indonesia is a nation of some 220 million inhabitants located, conveniently enough, in the Indonesian archipelago. Their language, Bahasa Indonesia is basically Malay with some touch-up paint. By dent of strenuous education by the Indonesian government over the last half-century it has become one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, ( Read more... ) -
Gyoar (shelta)
Ireland is an island off the west coast of Great Britain. It has a population of something under 6 million, and is roughly the size of West Virginia. That's not really very many people, nor is that a very big island, so how the hell they manage to have an indigenous, intinerant ethnic minority is beyond me, but somehow they do: The Travellers (or ( Read more... ) -
Pula (romanian)
In 101 C.E. the Roman emperor Trajan embarked upon a series of wars against the Thracian tribes of Dacia in retribution for their numerous raids across the Danube into Roman territory, and the massacre of two Roman legions in 87 C.E. (see the article on the Dacian Wars). By 106 C.E. the Romans had the measure of their opponents, and after a brief ( Read more... ) -
PwR Update
The PwR isn't forgotten, to the contrary we have been trying to find a Hittitologist who isn't a total pansy, and the quest is proving difficult. Seriously, here at the PwR we realize penises are all dirty and awful and stuff, but it's also part of the anatomy for which there is a name. We're growing worried that the Hittite word for penis may ( Read more... ) -
Daliif (yapese)
The island of Yap! Yes folks, we dig deep here at the Penis-word Resource, and todays digging leads us to the tropical island of Yap. Yap. God we love typing typing that. Anyhow, Yap is an island in the Carolines, an island chain starting about 500 miles east of the Philippines, made up primarily of low coral atolls ( Read more... ) -
Nhurnti (nhandi)
If you look at a map of the Indonesian archipelago, you can draw a line running roughly southwest to northeast and cut it through the channel separating the Indonesian islands of Kalimantan and Sulawesi. This is called the Wallace Line (after explorer Alfred Russel Wallace, who first proposed it) and it is the line dividing the continent of Asia ( Read more... )