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I find it disturbing that for thousands of years human beings have been making enormous effigies of divine, mythical & human beings to loom over us like petrified monsters. As a youth I remember driving into Gateshead at night and seeing the Angel of the North for the first time, ominously rising up over the horizon in the muggy twilight like some triumphantly erect human-messerschmitt hybrid & it inspired a feeling of intense physical disgust, there was something profoundly hideous about it
In this thread we document the most remarkably abominable colossi, recount our encounters with them, express & ponder revulsion or appreciation, & vote on which we find most terrible/sinister/unsettling
Poll Results
Option | Votes |
The Motherland Calls, Volgograd, Russia (~300 feet tall) | 11 |
Kristus kase Berkat, Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia (158 feet tall) | 4 |
The Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt (66 feet tall) | 2 |
Ushiku Daibutsu, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan (390 feet tall) | 1 |
The African Renaissance Monument, Dakar, Senegal (160 feet tall) | 1 |
The Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue, Erdene, Mongolia (131 feet tall) | 1 |
Other, write-in | 1 |
The Angel of the North, Gateshead, England (66 feet tall) | 1 |
The Colossus of Rhodes (Helios) [DESTROYED] (~100 feet tall) | 1 |
The Guanyin of the South Sea of Sanya, Hainan, China (354 feet tall) | 0 |
Veera Abhaya Anjaneya Hanuman Swami, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India (135 feet tall) | 0 |
Statue of Airavata, Bangkok, Thailand (~95 feet tall) | 0 |
The Thiruvalluvar Statue, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India (133 feet tall) | 0 |
Tian Tan Buddha, Hong Kong (112 feet tall) | 0 |
Statue of Soong Ching-Ling, Henan, China [DESTROYED] (~80 feet tall) | 0 |
Statue of Pee Seua Samut, Puek Thian, Thailand (mb 20-25 feet tall) | 0 |
The Great Buddha of Thailand, Ang Thong (300 feet tall) | 0 |
Moai Statues, Easter Island, Chile (~30 feet tall) | 0 |
The Leshan Giant Buddha, Sichuan (233 feet tall) | 0 |
Cristo del Otero, Palencia, Spain (~70 feet tall) | 0 |
Cristo Redentor, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (~100 feet tall) | 0 |
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