Built Formstubschool: pan-indian· Svoboda — Vāstu
Śiva Liṅgam (square→octagon→circle sacred form)
शिव लिङ्गम्Śiva Liṅgam
also: shiva-lingam, linga
frm-shiva-lingamDefinition
The omnipresent Indian sacred emblem of Śiva (deity of death, transformation, limitless awareness) that incorporates all three basic forms: a SQUARE base (Earth) → OCTAGONAL mid-section (the realm between Earth and Heaven) → CIRCULAR apex (Heaven), joining the three in 'immutable harmonic junction'. To the worshipper it is 'an endless pillar of blazing light (embodying the Fire Element) extending from Earth into the immeasurable expanses of Space'; also read as the cylindrical liṅga of Śiva resting in the square yoni-base of Pārvatī, and as the 3-D incarnation of the bindu. [TRADITIONAL — Svoboda transmits].
Traditional
Prāṇa relevance
The shape-progression and axis-mundi/Fire-pillar reading tie it to pra-axis-mundi-yupa and the square/circle element-forms; not independently traced.
Sources
- txt-svoboda-vastuch. 5 'Line and Curve' / 'The Axis Mundi' (PDF pp.111–112, 116)Traditional✓ verifiedŚiva Liṅgam = square base (Earth) → octagonal mid (Earth-Heaven realm) → circular apex (Heaven); pillar of blazing light (Fire) into Space; liṅga-in-yoni; 3-D bindu
Other attributes
- Form Class
- built-form / sacred-emblem
- Element Identity
- square=Earth → octagon=transition → circle=Heaven; pillar of light = Fire extending into Space; axis-mundi/bindu
- Effects
- embodies the Vāstu square→circle progression and the axis-mundi/bindu in stone