Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Slate-green below a pale, rough collar that looks bitten into.

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. Around the top runs a ragged band of tan and olive, as though the surface were chipped away in a ring. A compact oval in dim green-gray with a smooth, shiny face. It is 8 inches high and 4.5 in diameter.

Wearing a ragged collar with some pride.