> > An Egyptian stele or obelisk is a funery monument, > > not a phallic symbol... > > Bhairitu: > Not phallic? > That's right, the Egyptian Obelisks were not built as a means to increase agricultural fertility. Sometimes an obelisk is just an obelisk.
"The obelisk symbolized the sun god Ra, and during the brief religious reformation of Akhenaten was said to be a petrified ray of the Aten, the sundisk. It was also thought that the god existed within the structure..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk
