English: India (Madhya Pradesh) sculpture. Lajja Gauri with a lotus head and a female body below the shoulders, splayed showing yoni. An icon of cosmic feminine procreative energy, nature's fertility, the nature of cyclic existence through birth, and a symbol for Mother Earth in Shaktism and Shaivism traditions of Hinduism. For details and variants to this ancient Indic icon, see Carol Radcliffe Bolon (2010), Forms of the Goddess Lajja Gauri in Indian Art, Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-04369-2 A derivative work on MET DP253528.jpg, available on wikimedia commons under creative commons license.