Tintinnabulum (disambiguation)
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Tintinnabulum can refer to:
- Tintinnabulum (Catholicism) - a bell in a Roman Catholic Basilica
- Tintinnabuli - a music compositional style devised by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt
- Dendropsophus tintinnabulum - a species of frog
See also
- Tintinnabulum (Ancient Rome)[1], bronze phalli to which wind chimes are attached to protect one from jinxes and the evil eye.
The combination of phallus and hanging bells (fascinum and crepitacula (a rattle) or tintinnabula) was used as an apotropaic talisman to ward of evil, the Roman name for the male organ was the fascinum meaning favourable or propitiatory, thus symbolizing both fecundity and protection.[2]
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