Aerial view of the “Cerne Abbas Giant”, Dorset, England, a figure excavated on the side of a hill, removing the green turf and exposing the underlying chalky soil. It is not possible to give a reliable dating of the monument, which is attributed to some scholars to the Iron Age and to the arrival of the first Celtic populations on the island, while other emphasize the fact that there are no historical references to the monument before 1694. Lombard-Jourdan (2005, p. 200) interprets it as a Romanized effigy of the Celtic god Cernunnos, realized around 200 A.D.
The figure shows a huge human being, about 60 meters tall, with erected phallus and a great club in his hand. The weapon could be associated with the Irish god Dagda, a deity of fertility and abundance, or with the mallet of the Gaulish god Sucellus, or with a native version of the Roman Hercules. A local belief attributes to the Giant the capacity to help women become pregnant, and was a preferred place for appointments by couples of lovers. The connection with fertility, the great dimensions and the knobbed stick, are all recurrent attributes in the representations of Wild Men in European folklore.

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