Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Chevron stripes in rust and chartreuse crown this gray oval like a very small, very calm banner.

This tantric lingam is from Narmada River, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is quartz crystal & iron. The article describes Banalinga as chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline quartz with iron oxide deposits, and says scholars link their naturally occurring markings, considered spiritually auspicious, to meteoric iron. Shaped as a tapered oval in smoky gray with a velvety polish. Near the top, bent bands of reddish brown and pale green form a chevron. Fainter rust patches drift down the side, and a ring of the same colors circles the base. It is 13 inches high and 6 in diameter.

Pattern sense that no committee could have planned.