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Updated: June 1, 2025
For many Yugas this goddess has been engaged in a desperate contest with her lawful husband Shiva, who, in his shape of Trikutishvara, a three-headed lingam, has dishonestly claimed the rocks and the river for his own the very rocks and the very river over which Kali presides in person.
The third of these wonderful people sat crossing his legs under him; but how he could sit was more than we could understand, because the thing on which he sat was a stone lingam, not higher than an ordinary street post and little wider than the "stone of Shiva," that is to say, hardly more than five or seven inches in diameter.
He was thought of in many forms as a potent ascetic, a butcher wild for blood, a serene dancer and in his character of regenerator was represented by his symbol, the lingam or phallus. The third aspect, Vishnu, was God in his character of loving protector and preserver. This great Trinity was ultimately supreme but under it were a number of lesser powers.
He enters again into a real understanding and confidential relationship with his physical body and with the body of the society in which he dwells from both of which he has been sadly divorced; and he takes up again the broken thread of the Cosmic Life. It is here, perhaps, that the ancient worship of the Lingam comes in.
In doctrine the Lingâyats remain faithful to their original tenets and do not worship any god or goddess except Śiva in the form of the Lingam, though they show respect to Gaṇeśa, and other deities as also to the founder of their sect.
The lingam is worshipped all over India and many of the most celebrated shrines, such as Benares and Bhubaneshwar, are dedicated to the Lord of life and death. The Śivaism of the Tamil country is one of the most energetic and progressive forms of modern Hinduism, but in doctrine it hardly varies from the ancient standard of the Tiruvacagam. European Influence and Modern Hinduism
The Tribal order rises to Humanity; love ascends from the lingam to yogam, from physical union alone to the union with the Whole which of course includes physical and all other kinds of union. No wonder that the good St. "Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and the table of devils." See Sanskrit Dictionary. See Ch.
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