Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Pearl-gray body with a dark plum cap and a jagged shape climbing from the base.

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. This tall, narrow oval has a smooth, pale gray-lilac surface. A dark plum cap sits at the top at an angle, and a jagged brown-purple shape rises up from the bottom. A fine arc scratch marks the right shoulder. It is 9.5 inches high and 4.5 in diameter.

Mountains in miniature, climbing straight up the side.