Gods, Myths and Heroes - Part 78

Phallic Rocks, Hawaii

All over the world, people have seen certain rock formations as giant penises and made up stories to explain them.  Today we look at phallic rocks in Hawaii.

Above is the phallic rock on the island of Molokai called Ka ule o Nanahoa, which means the penis of Nanahoa.  Nanahoa was a fertility god.

You can see the size of the rock next to this visitor, who seems to have been inspired by the phallic idea.

This sign explains the legend of Nanahoa and the phallic rock.

Another phallic rock is the 1200-foot-high Iao Needle on Maui.  There are two Hawaiian legends about it.  One is that it is the phallus of Kanaloa, the god of the ocean.  The other is that the god Maui had a daughter, Iao, and she was in love with a demigod Pu'uokamoa.  When Maui found out, he was so angry that he turned Pu'uokamoa into this stone pillar.

Continuing the phallic theme, here is the late Kirill Tokarev, one of my favorite unashamed males, in front of the Iao Needle.

Iao Needle is also historically significant.  A battle was fought here in 1790 by Kamehameha in his successful bid to become the first king of all the Hawaiian islands.

This stone is in the Kawaiahao churchyard cemetery in Honolulu.  It was said to be culturally significant to ancient Hawaiians.  Then Christians turned it into a gravestone.  Although the cultural significance was not described, I'm betting that it was a phallic rock.

This is one of the "lava trees" in Lava Tree State Monument on the island of Hawaii.  The lava trees were formed by a lava flow that swept through a forested area in 1790 and apparently congealed around some tree trunks.  Although there is no mention that this was considered a phallic rock, how can you look at it and not think of a penis?

We end with the famous Ka ule o Kamehameha, the penis of Kamehameha, inside the crater of the Kilauea volcano on the island of Hawaii, with a tourist inspired by the phallic subject.

OK, I lied.  This is a fake photo.  I started with a photo of man who was really naked in the crater of Kilauea, and I added the "phallic rock" in Photoshop.  But if it did exist, it would be quite a tourist attraction, wouldn't it?