OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 10865

lingam

Meanings (ES + gloss)
pene
The aniconic phallic representation traditionally worshipped as a symbol of or in connection with Shiva.
Caylus presents Pan in the act of pouring water upon the male member; that is, invigorating the creative power by the application of the prolific element upon which it acted. In In…
Then we have the very numerous lingams (conventional representations of the male organ) to be seen, scores and scores of them, in the arcades and cloisters of the Hindu Temples - t…
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