Do you think this started out as a project to make a figure that they decided to add a dick to at the end? Or do you think this started as a giant hillside dick drawing that they then made a whole man around?
What came first? The dick or the man?
Both at the same time. It’s propaganda to confuse lookers-on if the locals consider that a normal sized shlong.
Sort of like being 6’2" but telling everyone you’re 5’10"
For sure it was dick first. Then when people got got upset the artist had to assure them it was just the start of a massive man.
One day people looked up and saw Clydwyn the Village Pervert drawing nipples on the hill again. They decided to do something about it. They banded together and said “now it’s an entire giant naked man holding a club”. Together they beat Clydwyn the Village Pervert at his own game.
Hog Posted.
Lay out a picnic blanket on that dong.
Dating the pictograph to the early medieval period has also helped researchers to more accurately speculate on the identity of the giant. A 2024 study posed the now-popular theory that the ambiguous figure is actually meant to be the mythological hero Hercules. It may have been positioned on the hillside as a rallying point for troops battling the Vikings, though further research is needed to contextualize this possibility.
I like the idea of it as military propaganda. If I saw a giant chalk penis on a hill, it’d make me feel confident being that raided village in The Northman. They can catch a spear and impale the thrower with it, they’re eating their enemies while pretending to be wolves, but I’ve got the giant chalk penis on a hill.
