Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Half maroon, half sandy, divided by a ragged vertical seam like torn cloth.

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. Tall oval on a small black foot. The left side is dark wine red, the right side warm tan and grey, and a jagged salmon-pink strip runs top to bottom between them. A faint curved line crosses near the shoulder. It is 9.25 inches high and 5 in diameter.

Two moods in one body, joined with a frayed hem.