After a close examination of the plates given by Cabrera, I am inclined to think that nothing of the ling-yoni element prevailed in the mind of the ancient American sculptors.
The right hand of the figure makes the symbol of the yoni with the forefinger and thumb, the rest of the fingers typifying the triad.
I have not yet met with any ancient gem or sculpture which seems to identify the yoniso completely with various goddesses.
As I have already noticed modern notions on the influence produced by the exhibition of the yoni on those who are suffering, the legend referred to may be shortly described.
Whilst I was staying in Malta during the carnival time in 1872, I saw in all directions men and women selling cakes shaped like the yonishown in Fig.
It represents the ancient sistrum of Isis, and the yoni of the Hindoos.
At each junction of the ovoids a yoni is inserted with the apex inwards, whilst from the broad end arise four ashers, which project beyond the shield, each terminating in a few golden bead-like drops.
And even now we worship the stone lingam, set erect with a stone yoni as its base.
Her yoni is like an opening lotus bud and her kama salila is perfumed like a lily newly burst.
It tells that in the upper cleft of the yoni there's a small organ it likens to a plantain-shoot sprouting from the ground.
Close to this is a shallow oblong cavity, known as the Yoni or matrix, in which combustible tinder, generally the husk of the cocoanut, is placed, and in which the sparks and heated ashes are received and ignited.
The idea that its shape connects it with the Yoni and phallicism hardly deserves mention.
For that the word 'source' denotes the material cause is well known from the use of ordinary language; the earth, for instance, is called the yoni of trees and herbs.
The May-pole properly pierces a disc and thus conforms with the lingam-yoni of India.
The square or labyrinth is the lozenge shaped symbol or yoni of India.
The earth was the primitive pudendum or yoni which is fecundated by the solar heat, the sun, the primitive linga, to whose vivifying rays man and animals, plants and the fruits of the earth, owe their being and continued existence.
Moreover from its common combination with the yoni or female emblem, we may conclude, with Inman, that the ancient Cross was an emblem of the belief in a male Creator and the method by which creation was initiated.
There would also now appear good ground for believing that the ark of the covenant, held so sacred by the Jews, contained nothing more nor less than a phallus, the ark being the type of the Argha or Yoni (Linga worship) of India.
On the yoni as amulet see Seligmann, Der böse Blick und Verwandtes, ii, 203.
These were the Father and the Mother, and their most obvious symbols, as already stated, were the phallus and wares, or the Skuas and yoni of Hindustan.
He wriggles) Woman, undoing with sweet pudor her belt of rushrope, offers her allmoist yoni to man's lingam.
Man loves her yoni fiercely with big lingam, the stiff one.
The linga is a simple cone, the yoni a triangular prism.
The Kaphir Cham of Phantiet and Phanry have another cult of the same kind, the worship of the yoniin another form.
They were designed as Father and Mother; and their more obvious symbols, as has already been intimated, were the Phallus and Kteis, or the Lingham and Yoni of Hindustan.
Whether the markings really ever were intended to represent the Phallus and the Yoni must always remain a matter of opinion.
The same idea, in fact, which, apart from any obscene conception, causes the rude Mahadeo and Yoni to be worshipped daily by hundreds of thousands of Hindus.
Many members of the Masonic fraternity fail utterly to understand the symbolical language of their mosques and the phallic and yoni emblems which constitute their decorations.
The pattern of the Eucharist with its golden circle and radiations is easily recognizable by any one who is familiar with the symbols of yoni worship.
The Eleusirian festivals represented the survival of the purest ideals of nature worship, before the warfare between the yoni and the phallic worshippers had brought both ideals into degradation.
For example, there is one enclosure described, in the centre of which is erected a mound and pillar, precisely resembling the linga yoni of the East.
When the yoni is pressed by the lingam for a long time, it is called "pressing.
When the yoni is lowered, and the upper part of it is struck with the lingam, it is called "piercing.
Her yoniresembles the opening lotus bud, and her love seed (Kama salila) is perfumed like the lily that has newly burst.
At the commencement he should rub her yoni with his hand or fingers, and not begin to have intercourse with her until she becomes excited, or experiences pleasure.
An ointment made of the fruit of the asteracantha longifolia (kokilaksha) will contract the yoni of a Hastini or elephant woman, and this contraction lasts for one night.
When both sides of the yoni are rubbed in this way, it is called the "blow of a bull.
When only one part of the yoni is rubbed with the lingam, it is called the "blow of a boar.
An ointment made by pounding the roots of the nelumbrium speciosum, and of the blue lotus, and the powder of the plant physalis flexuosa mixed with ghee and honey, will enlarge the yoni of the Mrigi or deer woman.
When a woman forcibly holds in her yoni the lingam after it is in, it is called the "mare's position.
We have observed that notwithstanding the fact that the supremacy of the male had been established, the sacred Yoni and the lotus were still reverenced as symbols of the most exalted God.
Originally the Ionians, as their name indicates, were Yoni worshippers, i.
In the Hebrew this name is identical with Yoni or Yuni--the female principle.
The women sanctified a crack of one of the walls of the temple, their attitude toward it corresponding to the yoni worship of India.
It is generally understood that it was in consequence of this curse, that Shiva was deprived of his lingam in the Daruvanan, and that Parvati assumed the form of the yoni in order to receive and render it innocuous.
Upon the erection of a new village, in setting up the Linga, they are careful to turn the spout of the yoni towards the jungle, and not upon the houses or roads, lest ill fortune should rest upon them.
At other times they are several inches in height, as in the domestic examples, and often have the bull Nandi carved either at the end of the yoni or at the side of the emblem.
