Everything tending to this end is to him venerable and holy, and it is in this respect alone that he worships the Lingam.

"The worshippers of Vishnu have on their foreheads a red or yellowish painted sign of the Jani; the Shiva worshippers, the sign of the Lingam, or an obelisk, triangle, or the sun.

It was a foot in diameter, and was carved au naturel as the Maori lingam and yoni throughout Polynesia, and in India, where doubtless the cult originated.

They consist, invariably, of a "cella" containing the object of veneration, the lingam, surmounted by a high-pitched conical stone roof.

He was thought of in many formsas a potent ascetic, a butcher wild for blood, a serene dancerand in his character of regenerator was represented by his symbol, the lingam or phallus.

Among the eastern nations of India the same symbol was prevalent, under the name of "Lingam."

But the Phallus or Lingam was a representation of the male principle only.

The union of the Phallus and Cteis, or the Lingam and Yoni, in one compound figure, as an object of adoration, was the most usual mode of representation.

This was the universal doctrine in all the ancient religions, and was very naturally developed in the symbol of the phallus and cteis among the Greeks, and in the corresponding one of the lingam and yoni among the Orientalists; from which symbols the masonic point within a circle is a legitimate derivation.

All this, of course, is nothing more nor less than the phallus and cteis, or lingam and yoni, under a different form.

Seely tells us that the Lingam, or Indian Phallus, is an emblem as frequently met with in Hindostan as the cross is in Catholic countries.

The Lingam is at once the symbol and the mystery of this religious idea.

Siva is represented, not only with the necklace of skulls, but with the lingam.

Possibly there is, by way of the valuable hypothesis that Jehovah was a fetish stone which had been a grave-stone, or perhaps a lingam, and was kept in the Ark on the plausible pretext that it was the two Tables of the Law!