The female symbol is a symbol for
the Mother Goddess; she is the life giver (Hebrew: chavvah = EVA) like the
female earth, who gives life. Shiva and the Mother Goddess are still present
until today in the Kaaba and mostly men (!) worship the black stone inside the
female Goddess symbol on a corner on the Kaaba in Mecca, and after a precise
washing procedure, they kiss and touch devote the female symbol. Like the Hindus
at Mt. Kailash, they turn around seven times the Kaaba. The female part of Shiva
is the black Kali, the destroyer of life.
The white Mt. Kailash is a
symbol for Shiva, because Shiva is the creator, AND the black destroyer of live.
His main symbol is the phallus. He is sitting there on the white Mt. Kailash in
timeless meditation with his wife Parvati. As a symbol of lingam and yoni this
was not only be worshipped in India, but also by the people in Arabia (Sanskrit:
'Arbab_stahn' - 'Land of horses') long before Mohammed has had his spiritual
visions. Now the yoni/lingam symbol in Mina is a place where pilgrims throw
little stones to it. But they do no really know, why they do that.
The
Shiva male symbol is present in the towers of the Mosques, but was also
distributed all over Europe, as the tree in spring, when life begins again in
nature, as p.e. in Bavaria in Germany. There wearing then nine year old girl's
candles with a serpent, which is also a symbol of Shiva on the 'White Sunday'.
The flying white horse Kalki from the Veda's of India, which is also
present in the old stories told about Mohammed, and also in the Nordic myths of
Scandinavia as the horse of Odin.
The Ankh symbol ('life') from Egypt
contains the red female symbol and the male symbol.