Natural formations that resemble Dicks have long attracted the attention of primitive societies as well as members of civilized races.
One such phallic rock, an artificially enhanced natural formation, and now a prominent stop for tourists, is Kauleonanahoa, in the forest above the Kalaupapa Cliffs, on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.
It has, of course, long been known that phallic worship was an institution that stretches back into the mist of time.
In certain parts of the world, especially in India, it continues to this day as we see.
Phallic idols, actually have been found all over Stone Age Europe.
One found in a Neolithic temple on Malta, and now housed in the archaeological museum in Valletta, reproduces the phallus in triplicate form.
Triplicate phallic images were also found at Alatri and on the Pelasgic walls at Grottatore.
Until recently, Western sentiments, especially those harbored by abrahamic faiths, had long been shocked by the veneration of the male reproductive organ.
This is so true that, in 1891, a Hindu boy was flogged in Madras, India, by order of the British Police Magistrate
>"for exhibiting an indecent figure in public view."
As Count Eugene Goblet d'Alviella recounted:
>"What he had explicitly done was to set up, in accordance with universal custom, a phallic image before a house that was in the course of erection ... The image was indeed set up before [the house] as a symbol of the Deity"