linga stones are abstract symbols associated with the god shiva.
linga stones are abstract symbols associated with the god shiva.
linga stones are abstract symbols associated with the god?
shiva
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these are made of stone, crystal, metals, clay, rice, dough, etc. these can be moved from one place to another.









































section::::symbols associated with individual deities.:shiva lingam.:types.:acala shivalingas.









































the sacred texts describe many types of shiva linga based on variations in the proportions. the following is the description of sarvatobhadra shiva lingam preferably constructed in black spotless hard stone which can be worshiped by every living being.









































these shivlingas are installed in temples and are fixed to ground or a base. they are usually made of stones or metals.
hindu iconography
about 250 pictish stones survive and have been assigned by scholars to three classes. class i stones are those thought to date to the period up to the 7th century and are the most numerous group. the stones are largely unshaped and include incised symbols of animals including fish and the pictish beast, everyday objects such as mirrors, combs and tuning forks and abstract symbols defined by names including v-rod, double disc and z-rod. they are found from the firth of forth to shetland. the greatest concentrations are in sutherland, around modern inverness and aberdeen. good examples include the dunrobin (sutherland) and aberlemno stones (angus). class ii stones are carefully shaped slabs dating after the arrival of christianity in the 8th and 9th centuries, with a cross on one face and a wide range of symbols on the reverse. in smaller numbers than class i stones, they predominate in southern pictland, in perth, angus and fife. good examples include glamis 2, which contains a finely executed celtic cross on the main face with two opposing male figures, a centaur, cauldron, deer head and a triple disc symbol and cossans, angus, which shows a high-prowed pictish boat with oarsmen and a figure facing forward in the prow. class iii stones are thought to overlap chronologically with class ii stones. most are elaborately shaped and incised cross-slabs, some with figurative scenes, but lacking idiomatic pictish symbols. they are widely distributed but predominate in the southern pictish areas.
scotland in the early middle ages