a phurpa...

...is used as a ritual implement to signify stability on a prayer ground during ceremonies, and only those initiated in its use, or otherwise empowered, may wield it. The energy of the phurpa is fierce, wrathful, piercing, affixing, transfixing. The phurpa affixes the elemental process of 'Space' to the Earth, thereby establishing an energetic continuum.It is also on Mr Godwins leg.