yoni

There is a cleft in the rock, shaped like a yoni , the womb or female generative organ.

Certain conical and ring-shaped stones became early forms of the liṅga and yoni , the aniconic symbols of Shiva and his consort.

Two of the ten even share their names, khechari and yoni , with the hatha seals we are about to meet, but here the sense is wholly symbolic, the union of Shiva and Shakti and the womb-source of all things, and …

It is the liṅga , the aniconic pillar, usually set in a yoni-pīṭha base, and it is the principal cult object in Shaiva temples.

The base, and the union The lingam rises from a circular or spouted base, the yoni-pitha , the seat.

She places her hands in the Yoni Mudra - the gesture in which the right hand cradles the left and the fingers form the triangular sign of the Goddess’s own emergence.

It reaches to the body of the goddess seated on his thigh, and in the most explicit verses to her yoni , or it lifts to her lips to take the wine or honey there, the tasted, the ucchishta , from her mouth.

…nstitutional embodiment) — the great Shakti Pitha where the goddess’s yoni is the principal object of worship.