Although Lingam is neither a mere phallic iconography nor the textual sources signify it as so, stone Lingams with numerous kinds are observed to this date in quite a few of the old temples, and in museums in India and abroad, which are frequently much more clearly phallic than later on stylized lingams. Shiva, the most extensively worshipped male deity in Hinduism pantheon, is worshipped much more frequently in the kind of the lingam.