Devotees Worshipping Linga-Yoni 

Painting, India.

The icon's primitive phallic associations are likely "descended from the uncarved stones of earth cults" (Paul Mus, 1934). Indeed, the rite of setting up large long stones in the soil (vis-à-vis the menhir) and conducting human sacrifice before them, was a widely dispersed cultural feature throughout the Neolithic world.

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