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The Indus Script has long been called the last undeciphered script * of a major world civilization. This is a presentation of the discovery that the enigmatic glyphs are icons representing famous Hindu legends such as How Brahma Lost His Fifth Head, and The Churning of the Ocean of Milk. Below, the glyphs are introduced within the context of story, and this insight is then applied to decode actual Indus seal artifacts. An open source, web-based diagnostic program is shared that can help users to evaluate the connection strength between any Indus expression of their choice and 10 Hindu legends by clicking on a graphical menu of glyphs or typing glyph numbers to compose an expression for heuristic analysis.
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First Indus seal discovered included Amrita symbol
(also contemplate How Brahma lost his 5th head legend, after eating from Tree of Knowledge, Adam and Eve cover up with fig. Brahma has parasol where 5th head was. Wisdom, sacrifice, loss, healing cycle symbol) #232 |
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Unicorn Yaali Seal: Churning of the Ocean of Milk
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Corpus continued. Decorative seals. Indo-Iranian borderlands
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The seal on this cover relates to the Churning of the Ocean of Milk legend. The trishul trident (#162) (fire) represents Shiva, the hero who swallowed the poison. Varuna's ocean 5-point trident (#171) (water element) represents the Ocean of Milk, as well as cosmic justice and balance since he is the god of justice and cosmic order. Side by side, these also contrast the alchemical elements of fire and water. |
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IntroductionIndus Script Interpreted as Iconography of Hindu LegendsRosetta Stone discovered. Tiger seal portrays legend of god Shiva
In February 2024, a breakthrough in the decoding effort was achieved. A seal with Indus script was discovered to connect to a legend about the god Shiva. It happened to be the eve of MahaShivratri, the holy night of Shiva, when author Celeste Horner encountered some key research. Project Shivoham had matched the traditional legend of Lubdhaka and the Tiger with a collection of eighteen terracotta seals identified by Gregory Possehl in 2008. They depict a tiger looking at a man in a tree. The Shivoham principal author recognized the tale as one his mother told him as a child. The legend reveals the context of the scene. Trapped by a wild tiger, the hunter Lubdhaka is forced to take refuge for a whole night in a sacred Bilva (Bael) tree. He prayed, fasted, and sprinkled tear-moistened holy leaves on a Shiva lingam below the tree. This happened to be performed on the yearly holy night of MahaShivratri when the marriage of the god Shiva and goddess Shakti, incarnated as Parvati, is observed with ritual annointing of a Shiva lingam, all-night prayer, meditation, and celebration. Greatly pleased by these devotional actions, the god Shiva blessed Lubdhaka with a safe return home and bliss in his glorious paradise. Many variants of the hunter and tiger legend stress that even sinners and accidental observance of the MahaShivratri ritual can bring great spiritual reward. For thousands of years, gurus, sages, and Indus seals were preaching this message.
THREE STEPS TO DECIPHERMENT. Gregory Possehl (2008) identified the common thread of 18 Indus seals with a man in tree with a tiger. PROJECT SHIVOHAM (2024) identified the unknown legend depicted in the Man, tree and tiger Indus seal as the Mahashivratri legend of Lubdaka. SHIVOHAM video. Celeste Horner (2024) took the next step and interpreted the script by deducing the Shiva forehead tilak (jar) symbol central to the legend and the seal. The legend of Lubdhaka and the Tiger seal was the cultural folklore Rosetta Stone of the Indus Script. Even though it was not a word-for-word multi-lingual like the Egyptian Rosetta Stone, the mystery characters could be matched with a legend that was known internationally, with an illuminating version even currently found in Bali. It demonstrated that thousands of years ago, the Indus culture was steeped in Hindu legends and they celebrated MahaShivratri. Insight from this legend sparked the great "Eureka moment" for Celeste Claire Horner, a retired librarian and independent researcher of comparative language and symbology. Watching the 2024 (and 2023) livestreams hosted by Sadhguru from Isha Yoga Center in India of the spectacular mass ceremony observing all-night ceremony, chant, music, dance, and worship was an illuminating immersion in this ancient cultural tradition. The message: STAY UP ALL NIGHT AND PRAY ON MAHASHIVRATRI! The goal is to remain upright absorb the upsurge of celestial energies from planetary alignment and scriptures guarantee that spiritual merit of pleasing Shiva. That was was the message of both Sadhguru on the livestream, and the hungry tiger on an ancient Indus terracotta seal compelling the man to stay up all night in a tree, on guard and in prayer! The long-sought interpretation key provided an independent account of the meaning of enigmatic Indus inscriptions. As an American raised in the United States and Canada in a home oriented to world culture, with both the Bible and the Bhagavad gita on the bookshelf, Celeste was able to recognize allusions to Hindu philosophy and mythology in Indus Script artifacts. As a young child, Celeste listened as her mother, a kindergarten teacher who had visited India, read stories about Krishna and Hanuman, the mighty flying monkey god who carried a mountain. They made a lasting impression. Examining the tiger seal, she employed a prior meta-language research discovery that the upright fish @ @ Indus sign #59 was a god symbol. Her comparative culture research connected the fish symbol with Vishnu Matsya, Oannes, Dagon, the ICHTHYS fish of Christianity, intersection of circles in geometry, the vesica piscis, and the Pisces constellation. Celeste Horner deduced that the winged V "jar symbol" Indus sign #342 (jar, winnowing basket, sacred vessel, lingam), the most frequent glyph, was a third eye forehead tika sign, a cobra mark, and a SHIVA SYMBOL. Suddenly, a huge light illuminated the mystery of ancient Indus Valley civilization. This discovery meant that the god Shiva was the central theme of the Indus Valley culture. Many seals featuring fantastic beasts, such as unicorns and elephant serpent chimeras, show that the trading, farming, and herding society particularly venerated Shiva Pashupati, Lord of Animals. The Indus Valley people were Pashupatinath Shaivites. Their proto-Sanskrit (using danda, letter va व ) ( Dravidian? Fish = "min", star (Parpola)? Caroline Islands,Easter Island * Samgan Literature, Agastia, Linear Elamite, Bactrian þ Þ SH + VA व Sanskrit) logo-ideographic writing system, the Harappan or Indus Valley Script, is composed of icons which represent legends of Hindu mythology featuring Shiva and other deities. Language-independent ideas are conveyed, which could easily be adapted to make rebus-principle writing for numerous languages. Placed on objects of the household and commerce, they sanctified prasad, carried spiritual blessing from pilgrimmage sites, taught wisdom, and immersed the beholder in continuous contemplation of legendary divine action.
With symbolic insights from prominent and fascinating Hindu legends, most of the Indus characters can be understood and organized into a few categories of a coherent mythological framework. Two primary legends illuminate most of the glyphs: Churning of the Ocean of Milk and the legend of Jyotirlinga: how Brahma lost his fifth head.
Mahashivratri ceremony with Sadhguru at Isha Yoga Center [2023] [2024] *
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READING DIRECTION OF THE INDUS SCRIPT: Like a miniature temple, the seal can be placed with the deity or living being facing right or east to establish a consistent orientation reference. The reading direction is then right to left like the sun rises, towards the face of a deity or living being (head to tail). Conversely, the symbol sequence is towards the back of a dead (or disgraced) being -- a skeleton with a protruding spine, or upside-down dead bird (Hamsa - How Brahma lost his 5th head legend. He turned into a bird and was beheaded for lying). The directionality of individual asymmetrical glyphs is determined from authority pieces with expertly proportioned votive animals or deities depicted. In the absence of reference deities, the orientation of known characters can be used to deduce the orientation of other characters or text. This method is developed from Egyptian hieroglyphs, which are read towards the face of deities which can be facing in various directions in monuments, such as in symmetrical arrangements flanking both sides of a doorway. Sharp grass used as magical sword * and purifier. Shiva humbles arrogant gods with the deceptively non-gentle weapon. Cross-kingdom conjunction: grass substrate plus silicate sharp blade embedded. Linga. Va boar dusk, swallowing throat, plant with sharp spine. OM (@) conch. mane gem diamond <>. padme lotus flower of englightenment rising from muck Y. Hum =[']= first tone =V=
INTERPRETATION - Symbols reference the Jyotirlinga legend. How Brahma lost his 5th head. Brahma argued with Vishnu over which was the greatest. Suddenly an immense pillar of light appeared. They agreed whoever found the end of the mysterious apparition would worship the other. Brahma turned into a swan a flew upward, Vishnu assumed his boar avatar and dug downward. They searched for aeons with no luck. Meeting again, Vishnu truthfully confessed he failed, but Brahma lied and said he found the top. Shiva emerged in a rage from the pillar and cut off Brahma's egotistical 5th head. Read towards the face of the bull unicorn, right to left. 1. All-seeing, evil-destroying eye of Shiva emerges from the infinite Jyotirlinga pillar. Symbol for searching high and low. 2. Dead bird of Brahma, beheaded for lying about finding the top of the infinite pillar of light. 3. Tirtha temple, a jyotirlinga site. 4. Symbol for boar tusk, the Vishnu Varaha avatar. Symbol for flesh cut off with knife. 5. Symbol for negation, coming out, cut off. ALCHEMY step: PURIFICATION. Unicorns and cow-lick (water, salts, minerals, mushroom formula complex, insect repellent, fountain grass and water basin) standards represent alchemy -- the production of soma for enlightenment and immortality. This step represents purification - cut off the surplus head causing lying and ego. A spiritual token for health blessing and wisdom with a strong dose of moral instruction. Learn from Brahma. Tell the truth, don't lie! * Honey is alchemy. Nu pot. Sphinx. Beer. Sekhmet. Mead. Butter (photosynthesis of grass, cow milk, souring, separation, churning, drying etc. Butter represents enlightenment, alchemical end-products) Alchemy being a synergistic confluence from various realms, an ensemble collaboration of nature which produces a unique result on a different plane which has energetic momentum for producing new productive phenomena. New profound music, Alchemy, Adventure and Love being prime reasons for Existence. Water bearer can represent chemical balances for getting the right proportions for glazes etc. Kiln. Spoon. U vessel. () union. E sifting. '/' division. Fire. Water etc. Calendar for letting ingredients cure, sit in earth for year, half year etc. Ink dry * Hammering homogenizes the nanoparticles of gold and pearl, fragrance, binder. Hard wood ash.
INDUS SCRIPT GRAMMAR
DiscussionDEEP TIME & INTER-CULTURE CONNECTIONS. Rings of Rama legend. Mammoth. Sacred ammonite. prior to Pole Star level earth Geological evidence of deep ocean churning due to Mars orbit resonance *
(Parusha Vishwarupa Vishnu divided man map. illustrates cosmic drama has repeated innumerable times. Multiples suns, and shave off energy makes astra weapons. (Pashpati with a mammoth (sloped back, Brahminic cranial top-knot *), wooly rhino, (Sun god Surya cavorts with wife as Lascaux horse sacred time) and sitting on striped cave lion. Primitive fern conifer motifs. Satya Yuga preceded trees and flowering plants -- pre-Cretaceous. Island India steady-state climate - never rained state, etc. Precession of Equinoxes and pole stars. Brahama swan Cygnus. Crash of Continents creates storms, time of Indra. Saraswati drying time marker, etc). Prithu levels land for agriculture. Pashupati free and tethered animals. Charioteer Vishnu Krishna Auriga Demigods and Heros mythological age. Kali Yuga Age of Man. Shiva precides. Kalki, Maitreya. Hanuman=Brahma, Bali=Indra next. Quantum physics. Star maps. Major seals interpreted with mythological context. Decapitated head, not sacrifice, spiritual awakening. Divine Dramatic Mystery Play on repeat with humor, mis-step devices, balance with demons taking over all 3 worlds sometimes, learning lessons. Connections to pre-Dynastic Egypt. Repeated cyclical Time reveals unexpected relationship between free-will and destiny as events can play differently in different versions. Born of Brahma's big toe in one cycle, of his mind in another... (Min. Cackler goose egg, Nagas, ST, Osiris (Indus glyph #160, with flail). Amun. Amenti. Narmer and Wash=Oesho? Narayana Vishnu and Shiva resonance? (Bactrian gold coins) =Isha=predynastic Shivaites? #190 4 pillars of heaven hieroglyph. House pr. Fertility, immortality, alchemy, unicorn, rabbit, linga, Mantra. Nilkanth, Nu pot, Nile blue. Narmer, Narayana. Mr. Wer - great. Ishwara. Ideographic languages - ProtoSinatic, Chinese, pictographic phase of Sumerian. Min: star. Manu. Wadjet mirrors unicorn tree. Amun, Min Egypt. Proto-Dravidian: *nīr (water). HP 4500. #173 Dashavatar sceptre. #143 swastika cycle of Yugas. #89 3 strokes. Dashavatar (10 avatars of Vishnu). Cycle of Time. 3rd avatar. Satya Yuga. Varaha, the boar. Tretayuga: Vamana Parasharama Rama. DV: Krisha, Balarama. Heuristic program Javascript to diagnose inscriptions. Tongue out, Indra defeats demon to release rivers. Vamana's heaven step cracks the sky to release Ganga, fist stage. Dragon key: serpent + deer (legs and horns) + lion grasping 4 suns of solar cycle. Out of mouth is Man, flames. Fire dragon + water dragon. Shiva + Vishnu. " || complementarity, duality = projection child creation. Uranus Air Gaia EArth). Sphinx (Shiva/fierce female Durga on lion/Inanana, Astarte). Sphinx and Vetala pose riddles in liminal zone. 1000 heads (avatars), 1000 arms (forces, activities). DIAGNOSTIC signs with high probability connection to specific legends. LONG PASSAGE INTERPRETATION. DEEPER MEANING glyphs. Interpretation Javascript program. CROSS-CULTURE CONNNECTIONS. Pr house. Y heaven pillar. Mr hoe/plow. Chinese knife, hand, and lid radicals. Shiva, Pashupati = Pan & Min? Gupta. Egypt? Bali 𓋍 Soma = Sm3? Tug-of-war interaction which binds the living system. Egyptian churning with Seth and Horus consonant with Churning of the Ocean of Milk with cooperation of antagonist Asuras and Devas. X Lion rider Sphinx Ishtar Inana Durga. Athena, Diana. Shakti. Lakshmi Maya
ARCHAEOLOGY. Indicates casual domestic use, private spiritual practice. Steatite Unicorn seal, c 2300 B.C. found in street debris inside city call. Indicates ephemeral use, common use, continuous use, like spiritual batteries holding blessing charge, ubiquitous. Like a prize in a cereal box, like a magazine, schoolbook, it could become part of a purchased item and become a common householder's library for spiritual practice or contemplation, like a spiritual magazine. Protective amulet. Baked into bread and revealed as a divinatory message. Memory aide distributed at public recitations of Puranas. Home instruction for children. Divination. Mark of being sanctioned by a priest. Mark of being imported from a spiritually blessed pilgrimmage site. Tokens to be included on domestic altars. Tapasya. Riverside site map * Earliest Harappa settlers 3300 BC * *House with pottery and "broken necklaces, bone and stone tools, spindle whorls and bangles made of marine shell as well as of terra cotta". Sacred waters and plants? pottery pattern? * * Intersecting circles, Fish-scales (god glyph), Pipal leaf motifs common. *
Suwa (Siva?) was a god worshipped duuring times of Noah according to the Quran. Siwa. prophet of Ammon consulted by Alexander the Great. Sah god in Egypt. Lost script of Arabia Mythvision podcast. Dr.
The Bible verse where God says to no longer call Him "Baal" (or Baali/my master) is Hosea 2:16. In this passage, God promises a restored relationship with Israel where they will call Him Ishi (my husband) instead of Baali (my master/Baal), removing the association with idolatry.
4-sided prism Sumerian king's list. Hole through the center for rotation. intro translation Lugal ||| armband heaven, sky and earth power. circle harmony of thought and deed, Priest King? 2026-5-5 fields glyph * *
Vishnu - the height. Fish eyebrow represents the sun at the ceiling of the sky. Like Egyptian Ra, sun at noon. The height of perfection. Shiva shows sun at sunset. Gills of fish show solar barque about to descend into the underworld, over which Shiva presides and defends to produce the glorious golden dawn at the end of a perilous journey. Book of the Dead. Favorable reincarnation or release from cycle. Shiva would be Atum, tomb of the Midnight Sun, and Amun Re (One Light of Dawn). 4 stations of the sun needed to be reborn, for each instant of Time to be sustainable and lead to the next. Same *) OM crown, solar barque symbol at different angles gives different meaning. The whole cycle #391. The chakra, the wheel of Samsara.
Fish are symbols of immortality, eternity because they can live in the primordial waters and they never close their eyes.
Library: Horse (ashwini, god of wisdom) + House. Literate. Tablet collectors to built merit. Economy of sacred merits, travel, pilgrimmage, support shrine network. Individual gets education. Women, children domestic and public oratory stadium. Like the Dohlavira sign. Go gather, hear the great sage. Occasion with music, mixing, markets etc. Flags, food. House of horse. stables also?
three-sided tablets (clever representation of Trimurti! Three gods in one). Water-bearer Shiva, four-armed Vishnu, and temple (house sign) III of the Trimurti. Throw sticks or votive items? Calculation sticks? Debris behind curtain wall. Harappa 1997 tablets also Trimurti markings.
Scanning electron microscope study. Production in kiln at 1000 degrees C to harden steatite, would have taken two days to reach the temperature
Shiva emerges from Jyotirlinga (#2) and Bilva leaf offering from large space designated granary, but no grain evidence found.
circular platforms for water based work. Linga?
Harappa.com: Harappan Seals and Sealings from Bagasra and Shikarpur: Some Preliminary Observations
Vishnu hid the image under the sand
Top right: woman with marriage knots / pasha nooses. Center: God crown is bow and axe. Breasts and gathering basket. Separation. Cleaving of a single sheaf of grass. Seeds. Twin sparks of duality. (woman taken from man, couple banished from Eden). Unity and duality. Woman, man, god, animals. Right: man, Adam. (Scene also doubles of broken-heart mourning of Shiva for Sati).
The world's oldest account of the Garden of Eden story from the Bible's Book of Genesis may be on an Indus seal from 2500 - 2000 BC. The potential Garden of Eden scene is on Chanhudaro* * Indus seal. In the center, there is a tree or apple core. The concave sides of the apple look like two bites have been taken.
Eden: Centerpiece is the core of the forbidden apple. Two bites have been taken. The shape also doubles as the entire Banyan Tree of Life. The air-roots of the cosmic tree reach down to bring life to earth. They are like pillars of the sky. The rest of the scene forms a circle around the Tree of Life. Cherubim are armed with bow and arrow. The River of Life flows from the base of the Tree of Life. The wishing gem icon of Amrita, the Elixir of Life is at bottom right. The three strikes \\\ indicate that three are destroyed: Adam, Eve, and the Serpent. The vertical pupil evil eye banishes and destroys. It is also the back side, the boss of a seal. The ibex, a symbol of wisdom god Ea, looks on. At top right is the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, with a Bodhi leaf (pipal) and a Moon of mystery, or worm, or serpent of temptation. A large antelope may represent the beasts brought to Adam. The ibex is an emblem of the god of wisdom, Enki / Ea, and therefore connects to the serpent of wisdom in the Garden of Eden. In front is a fierce guard with two bows. Genesis 3:24: Cherubim with flaming sword which turns every way guards way to the tree of Life.
The symbolism of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is multi-faceted. The heart-shaped pipal or Bodhi tree leaf represents illumuniation. The leaf is crowned with a curious shape which couches various meanings. First, we may see a cresent moon representing night and mystery. The crescent may also be devil's horns. The crescent may also represent a serpent of temptation or worm of decay. The crescent is divided into two halves. On the left there are rodent's teeth, which symbolize insidious evil which invades, infects, and consumes resources like grain. This represents evil. On the other side, perhaps the crescent represents dawn and sunrise, hope and goodness.
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Tug of War Good and Evil |
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Cherubim two bows guardian |
Cherubim armed |
Apple core Origin |
bow | bow and arrow |
Evil eye destruction hammer seal |
Three condemned: Adam, Eve Serpent |
Amrita immortality Life |
River of Life flowing out of Eden |
Amrita Key to Life |
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Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (#327) with a tug-of-war (struggle with temptation) rope. This is also a reference to the Churning of the Ocean of Milk legend. Indus glyph #254 tug-of-war sysmbol represents the back and forth churning action with god and demons pulling on opposite sides on a rope which was the giant serpent Shesha. In that legend, good (Amrita immortality elixir) and evil (Halahala poison) were merged into one and needed to be separated, and the toxic aspect processed, before the precious treasure output could be received. All are allegories of a universal process of alchemy. Seals address the most profound questions of existence: What's it all about? Why are we here? Why is there good and evil in the world? What is the goal of it all? We face the challenges of duality in order to emerge from the grip of death in to transcendent glory, having transformed the lead of life into gold, eternal and sustainable. Image: Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions, v 3.2. Asko Parpola, editor. (2011). p 111 |
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The Great FloodGenesis in the Indus Script
Bulls looking at circles. Vulture on rhino; Death on life unicorn. Creation: separate heaven and earth, the polarities so that life has space to thrive. Age of Taurus (4000 - 2000 B.C.)? Cycles of life, creation and destruction. Wavy horn bull indicates river, waters. Flood relates to Hindu legend of Matsya, the fish avatar of Vishnu, who saved Manu and the 7 sages from the waters. Cycles of creation and destruction. Two tigers attacking, god wrestling, destruction. Creator god at workbench. God crowned with living plants with dragons flying up and away, Creation. 2026-5-8
wave-particle duality
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