Banteay and the Lingas

"River of the Lingas"

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Cambodia Picture by Jim Strew
Travel story: Banteay and the Lingas

This was the last day of visiting the countless temples of Angkor Wat. We drove past the main complex out into the countryside to a National Park to see the River of a Thousand Lingas. A linga is a Hindu phallic symbol, having a square base, an octaganal section ablve it and topped by a rounded column.. The female symbol is the uma, a square hole with an opening in the middle of one side from which water flows from the surrounding lip. Sometimes lingas are found in the middle of umas. Quite... More