Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Ash-gray body topped with a maroon band, and a rusty splash sprawled across the middle.

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. Long and rounded, the oval is pale gray-white with fine hairline cracks. A dark red band curves across the crown, and an irregular splash of maroon with golden centers spreads across the lower middle, ending in small flecks. It is 13 inches high and 6.25 in diameter.

A cheerful splash, entirely unplanned and entirely successful.