Callipyginous - A word that does not exist under Islam from Planck's Constant

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When I was thirteen years old (1958) I wanted to make explosives. By reading hundreds of chemistry texts I eventually learned how, although in the process I came across so many Greek words that I began then to search for interesting looking words in books devoted to unusual words. I came across callipyginous. I have used the word throughout my life as a mere mortal. Now that I have entered the divine universe of blogging I would like to see the word used more throughout the blogosphere.

Callipyginous - well-shaped buttocks. But sometimes words do not do justice.

So, here are women with callipygian charms:
[For modesty sake and so as not to shock the casual reader who alights upon my site, the full view is available by clicking on the partial images. Most likely NSFW unless you work for Playboy]

I offer these images to all red-blooded Americans and ask: Do you really think it doesn't matter whether we live under Christianity or Islam? That all religions are the same?

Notes from Another Country, Callipygian (Callipygous) - My Favorite Word
This is a word about which it would be possible to generate many bad puns, thereby making an ass of oneself and becoming the butt of jokes. The subject matter—and the rather beautiful form of the word itself—has lent itself to adoption by word-hungry authors, even though the first recorded use was only in 1880. Thomas Pynchon wrote in Gravity’s Rainbow: "Those dusky Afro-Scandinavian buttocks, which combine the callipygian rondure observed among the races of the Dark Continent with the taut and noble musculature of sturdy Olaf, our blond Northern cousin”. Its origin is in Greek kallipugos, used to describe a famous statue of Aphrodite; that comes from kallos, beauty (as in calligraphy, or callisthenics, or the lily called hemerocallis) plus puge, buttocks.

A tip of the turban Hat Tip to Tor's Rants for leading us to the ultimate callipygian model, Venus:

callipyginous women - great butts - callipygian

"Callipygian Venus” Sculpture (100 B.C.)
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples
Photo: Toscano

Venus, thought to be more beautiful than any mortal woman, demurely admires her reflection in this sculpture called "Callipygian,” meaning "of the beautiful buttocks.” While the late Hellenistic original once stood at the center of a pool in Nero’s Domus Aurea in Rome, this designer resin garden version is cast directly from a 19th century antique.