Crossword clues for lingam
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Linga \Lin"ga\ (l[i^][ng]"g[.a]), Lingam \Lin"gam\
(l[i^][ng]"g[a^]m), n. [Skr. li[.n]ga.]
The phallic symbol under which Siva is principally worshiped
in his character of the creative and reproductive power.
--Whitworth. E. Arnold.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"phallic emblem under which Siva is worshipped," 1719, from Sanskrit linga (nominative lingam) "mark, token, sign, emblem," of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
n. The penis or phallus, especially when worshipped as a symbol of or in connection with Shiva.
WordNet
n. the Hindu phallic symbol of Siva
Wikipedia
The Lingam (, also linga, ling, Shiva linga, Shiv ling, meaning sign, symbol or phallus) is an abstract or aniconic representation of the Hindu deity, Shiva, used for worship in temples, smaller shrines, or as self-manifested natural objects. In traditional Indian society, the lingam is seen as a symbol of the energy and potential of Shiva himself.
The lingam is often represented alongside the yoni (Sanskrit word, literally "origin" or "source" or "womb"), a symbol of the goddess or of Shakti, female creative energy. The union of lingam and yoni represents the "indivisible two-in-oneness of male and female, the passive space and active time from which all life originates".
Usage examples of "lingam".
They threw off their grass skirts, dancing nude under the huge lingam, their black hides greasy with the rain.
His lingam felt hard, she felt an answering throb against her abdomen.
And there stood the lingam on its altar at the foot of the stairs, and there were the doors just as we had left them, looking as if they had been pressed into the molten stone by an enormous thumb.
Then he allowed his marble-hard lingam to enter the blood-red gates to Paradise.
I could tell, I stood as much chance of being assigned to any of these three units as I did of being chosen Queen of the Festival of Births to dance around the lingam pole with an orchid between my breasts.
Concerned because I was so little, one of the older women, Asma, used a stone lingam to remove my maidenhead.
He moved down the line of kneeling figures, holding the sacred image out for them to kiss, the lingam of Beloved Angkhdt, giver of life.
There was an enormous lingam there, which Mahommed Babar used as a stool, sitting in the European way with legs thrust forward and his old-fashioned saber laid across his knees.
Ommony sat on an altar to some obscure Hindu god that, like the lingam, had displaced, or, at any rate, had followed after the purer worship of the Buddha.
There was an altar in it with a lingam, and away beyond that steps leading upward into golden light.
Though he had no apparent limp, he affected a walkingstick as odd as the rest of his get-up: a three-foot post of white ash, somewhat stouter than a pick-shaft, it had what appeared to be folding lenses and other gadgetry attached here and there along its length, which was adorned with rude carvings (both intaglio and low-relief) of winged lingams, shelah-na-gigs, buckhorns, and domestic bunch-grapes.
Overhead the golden lingam beast swinging east through the dark purple became the back of the golden serpent coiled round the broken egg in the next hour-face of the Wanderer—the female serpent contending with and constricting about and finally crushing the male seed-bringer—while around about the great intruding planet the moon-fragments glittered and danced like the million sperm dance supplicatingly, vyingly, fiercely, about the ovum.