[3] Carrington wrote, "... it’s a sort of a giantess with a moonlike face in a field of wheat which is also golden hair.

Some have concluded that this is a representation of her with her circle of surrealist artist friends in Mexico, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna.

In Down Below, a short book by Carrington recalling her memoirs from time spent in a mental institution, she describes the conception of her egg motif.

“This morning, the idea of the egg came again to my mind and I thought that I could use it as a crystal to look at Madrid in those days of July and August 1940—for why should it not enclose my own experiences as well as the past and future history of the Universe?

The attire, of the figures and Giantess’s cape with gold surrounded head are similar to that of figures in works such as Albrecht Dürer’s Irish Warrior and Peasants (1521), John Derricke’s Rorie Oge, The Image of Ireland (1581) and John Speed’s Map of Ireland (1610).

The Giantess is among the surrealist paintings by women referenced in Mark Romanek's 1995 video for the Madonna song "Bedtime Story" (1995).