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THE GIANT AND THE MAYPOLE OF CERNE. 



2. It is colossal, and, therefore, betokens divinity (27). Such 



an indication is given in other examples by making the 

 divine figure, small though it may be, much larger than 

 adjacent figures. 



3. It is nude. This is another sign of divinity. It was the 



custom in early art to represent unrobed the shape of 

 the superior gods. Man and the inferior gods were 

 clothed. 



4. It is ithyphallic, and so stood for those highest of all 



deities, the creative or cosmogonic, whose function was 

 to inseminate, to fructify, to fecundate. This character- 

 istic is not necessarily associated with the preceding. 

 The Egyptian divinity Khem, for instance, " dieu 

 ithyphallique, est represente debout, le corps envelloppe 

 comme celui (Tune momie, le bras droit leve dans 1'attitude 

 du semeur, la main ouverte ; et pres de cette main est le 

 figure du flagellum. II parait symboliser la force 

 generatrice, principe des renaissances, survivant a la 

 mort. II aussi symbolise la vegetation et la germina- 

 tion" (28). 



5. Lastly, the Giant is clavigerous. It bears a weapon in its 



right hand. 



(28) Paul Pierret, Diet. d'Archeologic Eyiipticnnc, p. 290. 



