yoni
योनि yoniThe womb or female generative organ; at Kamakhya the Goddess is worshipped as a yoni-shaped cleft in the rock.
Where this term appears
- Kamakhya: The Temple of the Goddess Temples
There is a cleft in the rock, shaped like a yoni , the womb or female generative organ.
- The Indus Valley and the Question of Hindu Origins History
Certain conical and ring-shaped stones became early forms of the liṅga and yoni , the aniconic symbols of Shiva and his consort.
- What are Mudras? Lineages
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 …
- Who is Shiva? Deities
It is the liṅga , the aniconic pillar, usually set in a yoni-pīṭha base, and it is the principal cult object in Shaiva temples.
- Kubjika and the Paschimamnaya: four origins Lineages
He published three Sanskrit editions in eight years: The Yoni Tantra in 1980, the five chapters of the Ṣaṭsāhasrasaṃhitā in 1982, and the Kubjikāmata in 1988.
- The Lingam Explained Deities
The base, and the union The lingam rises from a circular or spouted base, the yoni-pitha , the seat.
- Devipuram and the Open-Access Model Treatise
Recipients of kalavahana used to sit naked on the yoni in the Kamakhya shrine; men are now given a white dhoti , the wrapped cloth, and women a red tunic.
- Four in the Morning Treatise
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.