Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

A river made this shape. Devotion did the rest.

This tantric lingam comes from the Narmada River in India. It is quartz crystal with iron oxide inclusions, and its age is indeterminate. Stones from the Narmada, tumbled smooth in the current, are honored by Hindu devotees as natural emblems of Shiva and kept for worship in homes and temples. The polished egg form is brown, with a rose-red oval banded in orange across its middle and a flash of yellow and blue-gray at one side. Eight inches high and five in diameter.

The eye goes to the red and stays there.