Obelisks in some various locations around the world - (13 pics total)

Sigmund Freud theorized that obelisks are a phallic symbol.
 
The Egyptian obelisk that the Washington Monument is styled after represents the rays of the sun.
 
It's one or the other but they can't be both.  I myself will go with the account as recorded in the mythos.

 
                                                             View of Rome from the Dome of St. Peters Basilica.

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