Bab Colaco, I guess you meant this is jest on account of the two spellings--Lauadinha and Laudainha (NOT WRONG in Goa). The other spelling is Ladainha, and means the same. As you rightly pointed out its an ode--a strophic musical form.. But lest your query create confusion and be seen as mockery here is some worthy writing on the Lingam / Linga from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linga. I tend to be cautious about wikipedia but this excerpted text is reliable.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Christopher Isherwood <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Isherwood>addresses the misinterpretation of the *linga* as a sex symbol as follows[22]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linga#cite_note-21>— It has been claimed by some foreign scholars that the linga and its surrounding basin are sexual symbols, representing the male and the female organs respectively. Well — anything can be regarded as a symbol of anything; that much is obvious. There are people who have chosen to see sexual symbolism in the spire and the font of a Christian<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian> church <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_(building)>. But Christians<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian>do not recognize this symbolism; and even the most hostile critics of Christianity <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity> cannot pretend that it is a sex-cult. The same is true of the cult of Shiva<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva> . It does not even seem probable that the linga was sexual in its origin. For we find, in the history both of Hinduism<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism>and Buddhism <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism>, that poor devotees were accustomed to dedicate to God a model of a temple or *tope* (a dome-shaped monument) in imitation of wealthy devotees who dedicated full-sized buildings. So the linga may well have begun as a monument in miniature.…One of the greatest causes of misunderstanding of Hinduism<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism>by foreign scholars is perhaps a subconsciously respected tradition that God must be one sex only, or at least only one sex at a time. The Britannica encyclopedia entry on *linga* mentions,[23]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linga#cite_note-22>— The linga was originally understood as a representation of the phallus, as sculptures from the early centuries of the Common Era make clear, but many—probably most—modern Hindus do not think of the linga in these terms. In fact, the stylization of the linga into a smooth cylindrical mass asserts a distinctively aniconic meaning, quite by contrast to the murtis (deities in image form) that serve otherwise as the most important foci of Hindu<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu>worship. This interplay is found in Shaivite <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaiva> temples, where the linga is apt to be at the centre, surrounded by a panoply of murtis. ____________________________________ venantius j pinto > From: Bernado Colaco <ole_...@yahoo.co.uk> > Subject: [Goanet] Singing the Lauadinha > To: goanet@lists.goanet.org > Message-ID: <989081.50674...@web24308.mail.ird.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > I wonder if this is and ode to the Lingam? > ? > BC > ? > Singing the Laudainha > by Tony Fernandes > > >