Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Slate grey with a red arch over a mustard half-moon, like a sunrise.

This tantric lingam is from Narmada River, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is quartz crystal & iron. Brahmin villages along a short part of the river traditionally gathered lingams from shallow water in the dry season, then shaped and hand-polished them, sometimes for as long as a year. Solid oval on a black foot in grey-green. A curved red band with ochre edging arches across the lower front, enclosing a mustard-olive zone below. Smaller red marks sit at the upper left and the very bottom. It is 7.25 inches high and 4.25 in diameter.

A sunrise with a neat bureaucratic border.