Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Pale as a boiled egg, then someone dabbed it with rust-red ink blots.

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 like a tall, slim oval standing on a small black disc. The surface is a chalky cream with fine hairline scratches. Irregular dark red patches gather at the center and scatter toward the edges, some looking dried and flaky. It is 22 inches high and 12 in diameter.

It wears its blotches with total confidence.