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Yoni

Yoni (Sanskrit: योनि, IAST: yoni), sometimes called pindika, is an abstract or aniconic representation of the Hindu goddess Shakti. It is usually shown with linga – its masculine counterpart. Together, they symbolize the merging of microcosmos and macrocosmos, the divine eternal process of creation and regeneration, and the union of the feminine and the…

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related to Archaeology · 27
Yoni → According, Arthur Llewellyn Basham, Dales, Dholavira, Ernest Mackay, For, Harappa, Harappan, Harappans, He, However, In, Indologist Asko Parpola, Indus Valley, Jane McIntosh, John Marshall, Jones, Later, Mackay, Mackay's
related to Orientalist literature · 26
Yoni → According, Bengali, British, Burton, Christian, Doniger, English, Hinduism, Hindus, Hindutva, In, Kama Sutra, Mother Goddess, Orientalist, Orientalists, Sanskrit, Shaivites, Similar Orientalist, Sir Richard Burton, Some
related to Lajja Gauri · 25
Yoni → According, Aihole, Art Historian Carol Bolon, Balligavi, Bhaktapur, Bolon, Devi-related, Earth, Elephanta Caves, Ellamma, Ellora Caves, Gujarat, India, It, Kausambi, Lajja Gauri, Nagarjunakonda, Nagpur, Nepal, Prithvi
related to Etymology and significance · 20
Yoni → According, Adi Shankara, Brahman, Corinne Dempsey, Hinduism, Indologists Constance Jones, It, James, Kaula, Other, Religious Studies, Rigveda, Ryan, Shaivism, Shakti, Shaktism, Tantra, The, The Brahma Sutras, Vedic
related to Iconography and temples · 17
Yoni → An, Assam, Both, CE, Hindu Shaktism, India, Indic, Kamakhya, Kamakhya Temple, Koch, Lajja Gauri, Often, Shakti, Shiva, Some, The, Within Shaivism
related to Sanskrit literature · 16
Yoni → According, Amit Rupapara, Cakrapanidata's, Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana, Gerrit Meulenbeld, In, Indic, Indologists Rahul Das, Its, Sanskrit, Shakti, Sushruta Samhita, Tantric, The, The Charaka Samhita
related to history · 14
Yoni → According, BCE, David Lemming, Figurines, India, Indic, Indologist Laura Amazzone, Jones, Ryan, Some, The, Vedic, Western, Zhob
related to Kamakhya Temple · 13
Yoni → CE, Hugh Urban, Kalika Purana, Kamakhya, Religious Studies, Shaktism, Shiva-Sati, South Asia, Textual, The, The Kamakhya, The Shakta, While
related to Southeast Asia · 7
Yoni → Ahier, Awar, Cambodia, In Cham, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam
is a · 4
Yoni → metaphor for nature's gateway of all births, origin of life.ArchaeologyThe colonial era archaeologists John Marshall and Ernest Mackay proposed that certain polished stones with holes found at Harappan sites may be evidenc…, Sanskrit word that has been interpreted to literally mean the, symbol for the divine feminine procreative energy.Yoni

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Yoniis asymbol for the divine feminine procreative energy.Yoni0.90text
Yoniis aSanskrit word that has been interpreted to literally mean the0.90text
Yoniis ametaphor for nature's gateway of all births0.90text
Yoniis aorigin of life.ArchaeologyThe colonial era archaeologists John Marshall and Ernest Mackay proposed that certain polished stones with holes found at Harappan sites may be evidenc…0.90text
the Lajja Gauriinstance ofas well in sculptures0.80text
the Nisvasa tattva samhitainstance ofbut in some texts0.80text
Mohacudottarainstance ofbut in some texts0.80text
the term pitha generically refers to the baseinstance ofbut in some texts0.80text
the yoniinstance ofbut in some texts0.80text
Arthur Llewellyn Basham dispute whether such artifacts discovered at the archaeological sites of Indus Valley sites are yoniinstance ofScholars0.80text
ithyphallic malesinstance ofa re-examination at Indus Valley sites suggest that the Mackay's hypothesis cannot be ruled out because erotic and sexual scenes0.80text
naked femalesinstance ofa re-examination at Indus Valley sites suggest that the Mackay's hypothesis cannot be ruled out because erotic and sexual scenes0.80text

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