Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Olive-brown with horizontal maroon dashes, like a landscape seen from a passing train.

This tantric lingam is from Narmada River, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is quartz crystal & iron. Dams planned along the Narmada since the 1940s have steadily removed the dry season that harvesting depends on, so gathering genuine lingams from the riverbed has become close to impossible. Rounded out as a tidy oval in dusky olive brown, glossy at the shoulders. Ragged bands of maroon red lie in horizontal streaks across the upper and lower body. The surface is smooth and clean, resting on a small black ring. It is 12.75 inches high and 7.25 in diameter.

Horizon lines, applied with real conviction.