: The history of the mysterious Lajja Gauri found around India #IndiaNEWS Many readers might be familiar with the facetious pop culture term used to describe men taking up space – manspreading. But

The history of the mysterious Lajja Gauri found around India #IndiaNEWS
Many readers might be familiar with the facetious pop culture term used to describe men taking up space – manspreading. But fewer might know that there’s a long and established global art history involving goddess-spreading. Almost every year, centuries-old sculptures and carvings are discovered in India’s fields and by its roadsides, featuring a mysterious female figure with her legs spread wide, as though displaying her genitals. This type of image has been found in cultures around the world – from the ancient Egyptian face-in-vagina figurine Baubo (characterised as a vulva clown in one tongue-in-cheek article) to the mediaeval Irish labia-flasher called Sheela Na Gig, “the embodiment of big vagina energy???. In the 1930s, Anglo-Indian archaeologist Margaret Alice Murray, in her classification of various “fertility figures???, identified Baubo and Sheela Na Gig as examples of “the personified yoni??? group. The idols and drawings of women that keep turning up in unexpected places in South Asia are a member of this group, a kind of figure known as the Lajja Gauri.The Lajja Gauri is a visual form featuring a reclining body with legs spread, representing a yoni or womb, ostensibly at the moment of birth. The form dates to the Harappan period in its most nascent version, with production flourishing during the early Common...Read more

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