Hello Mel, Shiva Lingams are ordinary stones that have been polished by people into their respective shapes to create the religiously symbolic stones that people so seem to like. They are generally made of ordinary rocks with nothing really special about them - unless you believe in their religious/spiritual nature. I suppose you could have one made out of impactite, or even a meteorite, but I have *never* seen one made of said materials. They're typically made of that odd dichromatic sedimentary stone (at least I'm fairly sure it's sedimentary given the texture), but I'm not exactly sure as to what it is. Regards, Jason
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Melanie Matthews <spacewoman2...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Good morning list. > > I was told once by the store owner of a local rock shop that shivalingams are > the result of meteor impacts in India... think I recall her claim was backed > by info from a rock/mineral book that she uses for reference. Is this true? I > haven't found anything on google that mentions anything on that.. > > Regards > - Mel > > _________________________________________________________________ > New! Open Messenger faster on the MSN homepage > http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9677405 > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
