Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

A dark red shape with one tall spike rises from the middle like a thin flame.

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. Gray-green oval with a matte, chalky ground. A large maroon silhouette sits at center with lobed edges and a thin pointed tail climbing up the front. A small red patch sits at upper left. It is 12.5 inches high and 7 in diameter.

Abstract art, signed only by erosion.