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Yoni-Lingam Emblem of Fertility and Divine Union. From Neolithic masterpieces such as Stonehenge to the ubiquitous herms of Greco-Roman Europe, upright stones inserted in earth represented the fertility function of Deity. Christianity replaced these herms with roadside crosses, but the millennia-old concept of stone phallus penetrating Earth's vulva remains universally alive in India, where ancient yoni-lingams are venerated in every village and crossroad. Puranic texts explain that when the upright cylindrical lingam unites with the double-creased oval yoni "the Earth shall find peace." Here is the Divine Union of Opposites made visible. Install a herm or yoni-lingam in your garden to assert veneration for sacred Mother Earth.
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