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USA monolith and Grünten penis: the last manlike rearing up

2020-12-06T23:40:11.270Z


Metal pillars in the desert and on California's coast, a wooden penis in the Allgäu Mountains: Does it look like an archaic phallic cult is reborn - as an expression of male despair?


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Monolith in Atascadero, California

Photo: Kaytlyn Leslie / The Tribune of San Luis Obispo / AP

It was once again a week of strange column structures that gave people the opportunity to marvel at the mysterious goings-on between heaven and earth.

On the Grünten, a mountain in southern Germany, which the locals refer to as the "Guardian of the Allgäu", a roughly two-meter-high wooden sculpture in the shape of a penis was discovered in the middle of the week - exactly at the point where, until recently, a similarly towering wooden pole was underneath Leaving a stump covered in sawdust had disappeared.

Near the small Californian town of Atascadero, halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, suddenly a shiny silver metal monolith several meters high rose on a mountain.

Local police estimated his weight at 100 kilograms.

On Thursday, 24 hours after its discovery, it was no longer to be found.

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Wooden sculpture on the Grünten

Photo: Davor Knappmayer / dpa

Are there aliens, political conspirators or jokers at work?

In the Allgäu as in America, some people deduce from the appearance and disappearance of the vertical sculptures razor-sharp that extraterrestrials would like to get rid of a message to humanity here, temporarily limited.

In the USA, journalists combine that Trump fans might be at work who want to disturb their compatriots with the metal pillar erected not far from the California coast near Atascadero - in fact, a practically identical-looking metal post was inspected, photographed and in the desert of Utah in November been filmed;

To the amazement of a large media audience, this silver sculpture too had dissolved into cool desert air overnight.

In the Allgäu, newspaper reporters spread the comparatively unspectacular theory that the wooden penis from the Grünten, affectionately known as the "summit tip", was originally carved as a gift for a young man on the occasion of the celebration of his coming of age.

The recipient was too embarrassed to put it up in their own garden, which is why he and his helpers took it up to the mountain.

The penis as garden god and scarecrow

In my eyes - and I guess: in those of every historically and gender-warrior educated observer - all these explanations are nonsense.

The erection of pile structures in the wild follows archaic traditions, which on the one hand are strongly influenced by men and on the other hand serve to praise lust and fertility.

With representations of the phallus made of stone or jewelry, which are slightly or greatly exaggerated in size, the power and splendor of reproduction in general and that of the masculine sex organ in particular were celebrated centuries ago in South Asia and East Africa.

In their mythology, the Greeks even invented a funny, especially male fertility god named Priapus, who was equipped with a brutally oversized member.

Especially outside in the green, in their gardens and vineyards, the Greeks and Romans exhibited statues of the god, who consisted of a large penis and very little rest.

The penis sculptures of the "garden god with a stake from his loins", as the poet Horace called him, were mostly made of wood and painted red, were supposed to ensure a great harvest - and serve as a scarecrow.

The phallus sculptures pursue practically the same purpose today, whether elegantly abstract in the desert of America or wooden-naturalistic on the mountain heights of the Allgäu.

Silver laths and summit lobes are a protective magic that is supposed to work in an archaic way in a world of feminism and dwindling male power.

It is important to counteract the poor social crop yield of men over the past few years.

And be it a steep sign.

The erection of proudly towering pile structures is the evocation of male steadfastness, presumably driven by desperation, a commitment to basic lust - and of course this rearing up of a worn-out sex is doomed to failure.

Years ago, the writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger, who was born in Kaufbeuren, in the Allgäu, described a large part of the male sex as "radical losers" and aggrieved narcissists who are desperately looking for "compensation".

But can columns, steles and poles like those on the Grünten, on California's beach and in the Utah desert compensate for the loss of importance and power of men?

What.

The »daily newspaper« is already demanding that a »two-meter-tall vulva« should crown the summit on the Grünten.

Presumably a giant bus the size of a tennis hall will soon be installed in the Utah desert.

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Source: spiegel

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