These are basically river stones that come from Holy rivers in India. The holiest of these comes from the Ganges river. these stones are rarely exported. Most of the stones that are come from the Narmaada, the second holliest river in India.

the rarest for of lingam is the naturally shaped by the river only. most lingams are shaped by human and finished in the river.



Originally, and only for a very short period of time, these were naturally river-tumbled stones which were used by India's religious groups for meditation, ferility and other things... later on the best were ones which were hand carved by people and to this day these are still the ones which are saught... naturally tumbled ones are hardly ever found any more and the feeling is that the ones carved by believers are thought to carry special energies as they are carved almost in a meditative state with total thought on the effects of these stones during the process. The carving process thus becomes a magor factor in instilling the proper energies into these stones. Demand became so high for these that now-a-days the vast magority are mass tumbled and mass produced which leads most people who have worked with these stones to believe they no longer hold the essence of what they are supposed to hold.

In India it was once believed that a fertile marriage would result if virgins were first deflowered by means of the lingam, a stone phallus symbolizing the god Shiva. Lingam translated means"wand of light". but means the male reproductive organ. Yoni is the term for the female reproductive organ.

they are good for releasing Kundalini and reviving the root/sacral area. releasing energies from blocked, clogged, chakras but had to be backed up with other stones to balance their effects. and with Kundalini there are risks to be taken if you cause the Kundalini to rise too high before you are prepared for it.