Obelisk
Phallic; male generative power; fertility; regeneration; stabilizing force.
It is also an axis mundi and the Tree of Life, a ritual world center, a ‘finger of the sun’.
In Egypt it denotes Ra; the ray of the sun; solar generative power.
[Source: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols by J.C. Cooper]
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