Meaning of the word "Yoni"

Yoni (Sanskrit: योनि yoni) as the word's primary meaning, means the “vulva”, the female sexual organ.
The Sanskrit word literally means “source or origin of life”. The ancient Vedas contain the word yoni in various contexts.
The meaning of the word expanded, and got a secondary meaning "Divine Passage".

A child was considered to be born from a yoni of stars - constellations that prevailed during the child birth.

The Aryans had identified some 50,000 astrological yonis that favour a child's birth. The term yoni was also used in agricultural references by the Aryans.

A 'fertile yoni' meant a good harvest of crops.
The word also has a wider meaning in both profane and spiritual contexts, including "spring, fountain, place of rest, repository, receptacle, seat, abode, home, lair, nest, stable"

It is also etymologically derived from the root yuj—like yoga and yogini—meaning, “to join, unite, fasten, or harness.”
The Veda known as the Ayurveda, or Science of Life, was the record of the ancient medicinal art of the Aryans.

The Ayurveda was the only Veda that described yoni as a part of the female anatomy.

Here the term was meant as a designation of respect for women who gave birth, thus contributing to the continuation of the community.
The Aryans interacted and inter-mingled with the Dravidians, and other communities, to form ancient India.

This lead to a proliferation, and modification, of their sciences.

The word yoni began to be more often used to refer to female genitalia by ancient physicians.
The yoni is also considered to be symbolic of Shakti or Devi in Hindu Tantra.
The worship of the yoni in Shaktism has the fullest elaboration at the Ambuvaci festival in Assam, India, which is held late each June.

During Ambuvaci, the Goddess Kamakhya is worshipped in her temple outside of Guwahati, Assam.
In classical texts such as Kama Sutra, yoni refers to the vulva.
In South Asian cosmology, the yoni is a "representation of the female sexual organ and thereby the symbol of the goddess Sakti, consort of Siva.

The yoni is often associated with the linga, the representation of the phallus, the male sexual organ and symbol of the god Siva".

As a representation of the feminine principle, the yoni is often found in union iconographically with the lingam, or masculine principle.
Possible lingam-yonis have been recovered from the archeological sites at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, part of the Indus Valley Civilization.

There is strong evidence to support cultural continuation from the Indus Valley Civilization (Harappan; Indus-Sarasvati) to Vedic and modern Hindu practices.

Yoni （梵文： योनि 约尼）作为单词的基本含义，是指“阴”，女性的性器官。
梵语词的字面意思是“源或生活来源”。

古代 吠陀 包含单词 约尼 在各种情况下。

扩大的词的意义，得到了第二含义“神圣的通道”。

一个孩子被认为是从一诞生的恒星约尼-星座，在孩子出生了胜利。

雅利安人已确定约50,000占星yonis有利于孩子的出生。约尼一词也用于农业的雅利安人参考。

甲'约尼意味着肥沃的庄稼丰收。
这个词也有两个世俗和精神环境，其中包括“春天，喷泉，休息场所，仓库，容器，座椅，居留权，家庭，巢穴，巢，稳定”更广泛的含义。

这也是词源来自根 yuj样 瑜伽 和 瑜格尼善意的，“参与，团结，旋，或利用。”
作为吠陀，或称为生命科学的吠陀，是古代的雅利安人药用艺术纪录。在阿育吠陀是唯一作为一个女性解剖部分所述约尼。

这里的用语是指作为一个尊重妇女生下的指定谁，从而促进社会的延续。
相互作用和相互的雅利安人与达罗毗荼人混在一起，和其他社区，形成古印度。

这导致的扩散和修改，他们的科学。这个词约尼开始更经常用来指古代医生的女性生殖器。
那个 约尼 也被认为是象征性的 沙克蒂 或 黛维 在印度教 密宗。
的崇拜 约尼 在 Shaktism 有在印度阿萨姆邦，这是每年6月下旬举行的节日Ambuvaci充分的阐述。在Ambuvaci的女神 Kamakhya 是供奉在寺庙外的她 高哈蒂， 阿萨姆。
在古典文献，如 爱经，指的是约尼 外阴。
在南亚宇宙学的 约尼 是女性性器官的“代表权，从而对女神萨克蒂，湿婆的配偶的象征。在 约尼 通常与该 林伽，该代表 阴茎，男性性器官和神的象征 湿婆“。

作为女性的原则，代表性 约尼 经常被发现在与工会iconographically 林甘或男性的原则。
可能 林甘- yonis已经找到了在考古遗址 哈拉帕 和 摩亨佐达罗，部分 印度河流域文明。

有强有力的证据来支持从印度河流域文明（Harappan，印度河，辩才）继续向吠陀文化和现代印度的做法。