(1) With Shiva there was the Trinity Trai-Linga-Ishwara; Hermes was correspondingly called Tris-Majestis.
(2) The earlier form of Hindu Trinity was called Trai-Linga-Ishwara, where Linga literally means the male organ but semantically connotes creative power.
(3) When we visit, people are wading in the River of A Thousand Lingas, a section of the stream boasting stone carvings on its floor.
Lingam
Definition:
(n.) The phallic symbol under which Siva is principally worshiped in his character of the creative and reproductive power.
Example Sentences:
(1) The expression of chitinase messenger RNA (mRNA) in response to infection with Phoma lingam (Tode ex.
(2) Since there is no element to represent creative energy this is expressed by the term Yin-Yang, or Black and White in lieu of male-female or Lingam-Yoni of Indian cosmology.
(3) Virtually Yin-Yang=Lingam-Yoni=Creative energy generators.
(4) At ChocolaTree Organic Eatery , shiva lingams – statues normally associated with Hindu temples – stand against the walls; next door, a UFO-themed diner called ET Encounter (formerly the Red Planet) serves Roswell-themed burgers and old Star Trek episodes play on the TV.
(5) Hence the male and female generative organs as Lingam-Yoni, already recognized in Hinduism as symbolizing the source of creative energy, have been depicted as such.
(6) Phomenoic acid and phomenolactone, previously isolated from the fungus Phoma lingam (Tode) Desm., have shown moderate antifungal and antibacterial properties in vitro.