Question
A seven-sided one of these objects carved from dark brown stone features a battle axe resting on the shoulder of a hunter in relief who holds a ram and a pot of water. Common modifications include adding 1,001 or 108 miniature copies to these objects’s surface, or adding a metal covering with one or more human faces. In a common scene, a boar and goose appear at the top and bottom of these objects as someone emerges from within it. Two guardians flank each entrance to the square cella that houses one of these objects, the focal point of the (*) Great Cave of Elephanta. The name of these objects refers to a “sign,” explaining their function as aniconic symbols of the formless Ultimate Reality. These objects are usually displayed atop a lipped pitha, or disk, that symbolizes Parashakti. For 10 points, what abstract objects, often paired with yonis, represent Shiva? ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Jared He | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 143 | 10 |
Micah Colman | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 144 | 10 |
Kunaal Chandrashekar | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 149 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 150 | 10 |
Aaron Dos Remedios | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 150 | 10 |