The symbol under which Sakti, or the personification of the female power in nature, is worshiped. Cf. Lingam.
A symbol of the female principle used in the Hindu Tradition. The yoni usually acts as a base in which a linga is placed.
May refer to either the sacred symbol of the female principle or female creative energy, or may refer literally to female genitalia.
symbolic representation of the universal matrix, female power of creation
Lit: Female genitals. Here it depicts the cavity on top of the base of a Shivaling in which the Ling is placed.
The female receptacle for an excited lingam.
Means, “womb or origin.” It is the female sexual organ, both literally and energetically as the Shakti power in the yogic merging of Shiva and Shakti energies throughout the nervous system.
Womb and female generative organ. Alone Or in combination with Linga, it is an object of worship for the followers of the Shaktas. The term also refers to a place of birth, origin or generative cause. The word is also used to indicate family, stock, race, birth, form of existence, or species .
A word from the Sanskrit where it means womb, origin, well or in fact mostly female genital organ. The term derives from a cultural and religious background in which the women long ago already were considered as the embodiment of the divine female energy (Shakti) and in which female genital organs were seen as a holy symbol of the goddess. The male counterpart is named lingam. An image of the yoni and lingam together is named yonilinga (photo: see travelogue day 05 - Kolayat).
A woman's sacred temple; ring like symbol of Shakti or female power
The word yoni (Sanskrit yoni) is the Sanskrit word for "Divine Passage" (c/f lila). The Ayurveda, or Science of Life, described yoni as a part of the female anatomy. Here the term was meant as a designation of respect for women who gave birth, thus contributing to the continuation of the community.
