Keywords: Vulva-handsign-Yoni-mudra.svg An abstract stylized representation of the vulva hand-gesture sometimes also known as the Yoni mudra used particularly among some lesbians and feminist spirituality advocates Occasionally done with the thumbs below but the version with the thumbs upwards depicted here has a stronger symbolic resemblance The American Sign Language sign for vagina makes use of the same positioning of the hands See http //healing about com/od/east/ig/Mudra-Gallery/Yoni htm http //www lesbischleben de/englwissenlexikon htm lesbian hands The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects by Barbara G Walker ISBN 0-06-250923-3 p 332 the cover of the November 15-21 2007 issue of Time Out New York ASL sign etc This highly simplified depiction using black-and-white silhouettes only shows the thumbs and index fingers just as they are about to touch If they are forcefully pressed against each other then the resulting handsign will be narrower and slightly taller If the thumbs are not bent and touch each other right at their tips then the resulting hand-sign will be broader and more triangular This also appears in James Branch Cabell's classic novel Jurgen Anaïtis placed together the tips of her thumbs and of her fingers so that her hands made an open triangle; and waited thus in an obviously symbolically sexual context her gauzy tunic had twenty-two openings so as to admit all imaginable caresses And now Jurgen shifted the red point of the lance so that it rested in the open triangle made by the fingers of Anaïtis etc Own 2009 AnonMoos Other versions See also Vulva symbols svg Heart-symbol-vulva-shape-hypothesis-illustration svg Merkel-Raute etc Other fields T + Lesbianism symbols Hand symbols Silhouettes of women Yoni |