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Lingam

noun
1.
The Hindu phallic symbol of Siva.






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"Lingam" Quotes from Famous Books



... references to this tower, there is no allusion to anything suggestive of "confusion of tongues." The name unquestionably came from "babil" meaning "the gate of God." Thus only is its meaning obvious, and consistent with the worship of the lingam and phallus which obtained at that time. It is also evident that the phallic worshippers borrowed the simile of "the gate of God" from the worshippers of the yoni, who based their claim to truth upon the indisputable fact, that out of the womb comes the life of ...
— Sex=The Unknown Quantity - The Spiritual Function of Sex • Ali Nomad



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