Indus script seals from Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, c 2500 B.C. Both express the theme of unity Left: Unicorn seal. Translation: "ADVAITA" (UNITY, UNDIVIDED). Read from head to tail of the divine animal. Right: zebu bull seal. Translation: "BRAHMAN". Brahman bull represents god Brahman, the transcendent union of all gods. more

Indus Script Deciphered as Iconography of Hindu Mythology

CELESTE CLAIRE HORNER celeste.horner @ gmail [ACTIVE RESEARCH JOURNAL - DRAFT 2026-6-20]

5 Indus seals depict legends of god Shiva. 1. MahaShivratri legend of Lubdaka and the tiger *. 2. Shiva battles moon god Chandra over goddess Tara in the Tarakmaya War * . 3. Shiva's bull avatar Vrishraba * rescues Vishnu from the underworld. 4. Fig goddess seal: Shiva completes penance * for cutting off Brahma's 5th head. * * 5. Shiva Pashupati, adiyogi (first yogi) and lord of animals *. 2026-6-1 Celeste C. Horner

Abstract

Indus Script Interpreted as Iconography of Hindu Mythology, by Celeste Claire Horner (2026)

A breakthrough in decoding the mysterious script of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization has been achieved by matching the glyphs with iconography of Hindu gods, legends, culture, and philosophy. Of the the 419 glyphs of the enigmatic Indus script cataloged by Mahadevan (1977), the most frequent is #342, the "jar sign". This has been found to represent Shiva, specifically, the U-shaped tilak forehead mark worn Shiva devotees, including a doll from the era of 2600 B.C. Longer compositions refer to widely known classic stories circulating within oral traditions for generations. Seals with butter churns #252 and #336 refer to the epic tale of the Churning of the Ocean of Milk. Gods and demons turned a mountain #16 to obtain elixir of immortality. A moral tale exhorting honesty is told with a bird glyph. This refers to the legend of Jyotirlinga pillar of light. When it suddenly appeared Vishnu and Brahma had a contest to see who could find the end. Vishnu sought the bottom by digging down with his boar avatar. Brahma used his swan avatar to fly towards the top. Vishnu honestly admitted he failed, but Brahma lied, so he was punished by loss of his fifth head, the source of his egotism. Seals with two gates and the number three illustrate how the ancient child sage Kumaras cursed the arrogant gatekeepers of Vishnu to be born in three incarnations as the enemy of their beloved master. A method of determining reading direction and front or back of assymetrical signs based on their juxtoposition with sacred animals is presented. This follows the convention of Egyptian hieroglyphs, read head to tail and toward the face of a being. An open-source, automated diagnostic routine is provided online, which can identify signs and compute the connection strength between any string of Indus glyphs and the 20 most referenced Hindu legends.

The ancient stories were preserved orally, memorized and recited by sages for thousands of years and eventually recorded in the Puranas. This study presents the discovery that Indus Seals were written much earlier on Indus seals. There are 419 Indus glyphs listed in the Mahadevan (1977) catalog.

Shiva is the main focus of veneration. The most frequent glyph, #342, is the tilak third-eye chakra forehead mark of Shiva. It also represents the distinctive mark of a cobra | winged sun, which represents a vessel of consciousness and enlightenment. Statistically, references to Shiva dominate the 20 most frequent glyph pairs, including 5 of the top 10.

Glyph #0 appears on numerous seals, but is not listed in the Mahadevan (1977) catalog. Author Celeste Claire Horner added glyph #0, and interprets it as important the Hindu philosophy concept of void, focus point, or nirguna (absence of qualities).
Glyph #293 is the crescent moon, Shiva's crown.
Glyph #162 is Shiva's (trishul) trident.
Glyph #48 is the skeleton of Sati, Shiva's wife who sacrificed herself in fire.
Glyph #67: The four-armed god Vishnu is represented by a four-armed form; his fish avatar Matsya,
#67.
Glyph #62: Vishnu's tusked fish and tusked boar avatar is #62, a fish-god wearing a tusked mask.
Glyph #81: Bird glyphs refer to Brahma's swan avatar #81.

Reading direction of Indus glyphs: Non-isometric glyphs have a definite front and back side. The front is determined by their orientation authority seals, which feature a expertly proportioned divine animals such as a bull or unicorn. The animals reveal the front and back of assymetrical glyphs. The seal is read from head to tail of the divine animal, using a convention from Egyptian hieroglyphs, which are read into the face of a god. This consistent nose-to-tail reading direction standard eliminates the confusion of seals and casts and various presentation directions. Syntax: The double apostrophe (double-tick mark ") #99 is a conjunction between expressions, and indicates plurals and active verbs, such as turning, churning, or plowing.

Automated interpretation program: An automated diagnosis program is included here to sort inscriptions into thematic categories to facilitate interpretation.

Alphabetic decipherment: The glyphs communicate thematically as ideograms and spell selected messages alphabetically. Yajnadevam has generated a corpus of literary utterances by cryptographic techniques. Here, applying rebus to idographic interpretation messages extracted include:

Advaita
Brahman
Adiyogi
Pashupati (pashu (noose) + '/ pati (lord, feet, steps, parts). #1 lord, man ishwara)
Om nama Shivaya

20 Hindu legends in Indus script: The most frequently referenced legend in the Indus script is the legend of the Churning of the Ocean of Milk, Gods and rival demons cooperate to turn a mountain in the primordial sea to release the elixir of immortality. This scene is depicted by glyph #16, with two figures on either side of a mountain. The churning action is represented by a wheel/chakra #391, and a butter churn by #252 and #336.

Story picture seals are legends about Shiva: Knowledge of the lore of Shiva is the essential key to interpreting pictorial seals. There has been much puzzlement about the decapitated head in the Fig Goddess seal. The legend of Jyotirlinga provides the context and explanation for a head lying on the ground. The god Brahma originally had 5 heads (glyph #198). He suffered the severing of his fifth head, the source of his egotism and lust, as a penalty for lying about finding the top of the infinite pillar of light. Another pictorial has the scene of horned Pashupati watching a bull fight a man. This relates to the Vrishrabha bull avatar of Shiva, which battles and rescues Vishnu from the underworld, where he has succumbed to illusion, been seduced by the enchanting beauties of the realm, and sired demon offspring. A third example is the Kalibangan cylinder seal scene of two men dueling over a female corresponds to the war for goddess Tara, in which Shiva battles the moon god Chandra. Finally, the scene of Pashupati and the animals holds a surprise. In keeping with precedents in Mesopotamian * and Chinese lore, the Indus Script may record the world's oldest account of the Garden of Eden, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel.

Introduction

CCH 2026-5-30

Glyph Decipherment Table

References and notes from the 18 Puranas

Indus Script Interpreted as Iconography of Hindu Mythology

by Celeste Claire Horner (2026)

Churning of the Ocean of Milk

Indus artifact: M-314
Reference: Agni Purana [470]
Summary: Gods and their arch-rivals, the demons, declare a truce and work together to churn a mountain in the Sea of Milk in order to obtain the elixir of immortality and other treasures. The butter churn, glyph #252 is diagnostic, often identifying seals connected to this legend.

Tarakamaya War

Indus artifact: Kalibangan cylinder seal
Reference: Brahma Purana [11]
Summary: Shiva battles the moon god Chandra for goddess Tara, each attacking the other with cosmic calibre weapons called astras.

Jyotirlinga and How Brahma lost his fifth head

Indus artifact:
Reference: Shiva Purana [182]
Summary: Brahma and Vishnu argued over who was greatest. Suddenly, an infinite pillar of light blazed betweeen them. Whoever found the top would win, they decided. Brahma attempted to fly to the top with his bird (swan) avatar. The boar avatar of Vishnu dug down. Vishnu truthfully admitted he failed to find the end. Brahma lied and claimed to have reached the top. Shiva emerged from the pillar and cut off Brahma's 5th head, the source of ego, showing that he, Shiva, was supreme.

Jyotirlinga and How Brahma lost his fifth head

Indus artifact: M-1 a
Reference: Shiva Purana [182]
Summary: Brahma and Vishnu argued over who was greatest. Suddenly, an infinite pillar of light blazed betweeen them. Whoever found the top would win, they decided. Brahma attempted to fly to the top with his bird (swan) avatar. The boar avatar of Vishnu dug down. Vishnu truthfully admitted he failed to find the end. Brahma lied and claimed to have reached the top. Shiva emerged from the pillar and cut off Brahma's 5th head, the source of ego, showing that he, Shiva, was supreme.

Matsya unicorn fish avatar of Vishnu

Indus artifact:
Reference: Agni Purana #Matsya
Summary: Matsya, the first avatar of Vishnu, saves Manu and the Seven Sages from the Flood by towing their boat with his horn.

The curse of the Kumaras

Indus artifact: Inscriptions 2088, 2434, 4589, 5490
Reference: Hindu Saga, curse of Narada
Summary: The two gatekeepers of Vishnu, Jaya and Vijaya, failed to open the doors and respect the ancient Kumara sages because they looked like children. As a concequence the Kumaras cursed the gatekeepers to be born as humans, but gave them a choice. They could be born 7 times and friends of their beloved master Vishnu, or 3 times as his enemy. Wanting to return to their heavenly duties as soon as possible, the gatekeepers chose 3 lifetimes as the enemy of Vishnu, including Raksasha demons Kumbhakarna and ten-headed Ravana. This story reveals a surprising twist to the evaluation of good and evil. Glyphs illustrate 3 lifetimes with 3 strokes, a skeleton of death, an infant of birth, and two gates representing the two gatekeepers.
Description: #KUMARAS

Narrative Seals

Kalibangan cylinder seal. Tarakamaya War. Shiva battles the moon god Chandra (Hindu saga video) over goddess Tara. The three strokes (tri त्रि) give the phonetic clue that this is about TR-root word, Tara. Interpreted by Celeste Horner 2026

Yajnadevam Tiger with man in tree (Lubdaka Mahashivratri legend). Krishna liberates the sons of Kubera from their forms cursed to be trees.
Reference: Further Excavations at Mohenjodaro

A Logosyllabic Decipherment of the Indus Script: Mapping Statistical Sign Pairings through Puranic Continuous Iconography, Archaeoastronomy, and Automated Diagnostics

Abstract—The decipherment of the Indus Script remains one of antiquity's most enduring epigraphic challenges, largely due to the brevity of inscriptions and the absence of a bilingual monument. This paper presents a novel logosyllabic decipherment framework based on the systematic correlation between high-frequency statistical sign pairings—as documented in the Parpola and Mahadevan concordances—and the foundational narratives of Puranic mythology. Statistical analysis reveals that the most frequent Indus glyph (Sign 342) acts as a central semantic node, forming dominant pairs with adjacent signs (e.g., Signs 176, 148, 347, and 8) that consistently mirror the structural dualities of early Shaivite cosmology. To validate this framework, we introduce an open-access, web-based automated diagnostic routine that allows researchers to interactively classify inscriptions and visualize character connection strengths via a dynamic network graph. Furthermore, we address the historical chronology gap by reconciling the script’s cultural themes with empirical palaeoenvironmental and archaeoastronomical markers. The text's references to a perennial, glacier-fed Saraswati River system, combined with astronomical alignments anchoring the celestial pole to Thuban (alpha Draconis), provide internal mathematical proof that the narrative core of the Puranas was codified during the Mature Harappan phase (c. 2600–1900 BCE). This interdisciplinary approach bridges the gap between Bronze Age iconography and later textual traditions, offering a reproducible methodology for reading the Indus script through its own continuous cultural evolution. Gemini 2026-5-31

Classic Hindu Legends Discovered in the Indus Script

Hindu Saga {God Indra wields the invincible vajra weapon to defeat the demon Vritra who had dried up all the water in the world}

[1] CHURNING of the Ocean of Milk. [5] Shiva swallows poison
[2] MATSYA, fish avatar of Vishnu saves Manu from Flood
Narasimha. Omnipresence. Lion-Man bursts from pillar. V X
[3] LUBDHAKA and the tiger
[4] JYOTIRLINGA: How Brahma lost his FIFTH HEAD
FIG GODDESS seal
[5] ARDHANARISHWARA: Half female form of Shiva
[6] Shiva PASHUPATI, lord of animals
Symbols of the gods, Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma
[7] Curse of the KUMARAS
[8] SHIVA NATARAJA | SHIVA VRISHRABHA bull avatar
[9] DWARF VAMANA and demon king Bali
[10] HYAGRIVA HORSEHEAD gods of wisdom
[11][2.2] 7 SAGES
PRIEST KING Circle of Life
[12] DADICHI. Sacrificed bones to make the invincible Vajra weapon.
TARA. War Shiva v Chandra Moon. * *
[13][2.1] Firey death of SATI DESTRUCTION of the Daksha yajna
[14] DESCENT OF GANGA Oman jar
Supernatural beings. Asura, goddess, vana devata
UPSIDE DOWN.
VARUNA *, god of justice and the sea. Crocodile or Makara avatar. * *
GARDEN OF EDEN?! World's oldest Genesis account?
TOWER OF BABEL
THE FLOOD, Matsya, fish avatar of Vishnu saves Manu from the flood
GOD GLYPHS: SHIVA [Meru FIVE FACES | Pashupati MahaShivratri / modes 0 - 3: #342 - #345, mode 4: Shakti #418!!, #419 [1][2] VISHNU [1] BRAHMA. JAR SIGN jar sign is tilak forehead mark: #342 Shiva, the destroyer, dispeller, third eye ajna chakra wings initiation; #347 Vishnu, the upholder. SHAKTI 2025-5-24 CCH

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Analysis and interpretation of the unicorn Indus seal of Kama, god of love

Love amulet. World's oldest Valentine? A seal from c2600 B.C. which celebrates the love of two hearts, inflamed with blessings of happiness from Kama's romance-inspiring arrows

Sign number	Indus sign	Description
#323		Heart Upside-down heart symbol is attested on a copper plate from Mohenjo-daro. Illustration in Parpola (1994), Deciphering the Indus Script, p 111.
#323 #323		Two hearts, lovers
#28		Kama, god of love with bow and love-inspiring arrows. Man with bow and arrow. Kama, god of love with bow and love-inducing arrows. Amorous male. Archer. Tautness of the bowstring symbolizes romantic energy and electricity. Bowstring is romantic tension.
#114		Many love-inspiring arrows in the quiver of Kama. 8 stroke count. Completeness, all 4 directions X 2, or including cross-quarters, full circle. Many arrows in the quiver of Kama, god of love. Vibrations. Repeated action.
#252		Butter churn (sweetness). Fire drill, sparks about to fly. Arrow in target. Pestle in mortar. Intimate embrace intercourse. The sword in the stone. Mace, weight, momentum, emotional impact.
#180		Flow. Blessings. Heavenly river flowing down Ganga river flowing down from heaven. Hair. Matted locks of Shiva's hair, which buffers the tremendous energy of Ganga river falling from heaven, releasing the river more gently to the earth.
#391		Sun, light of happiness Sun, star, wheel, cosmic axis.
Interpreted by Celeste Claire Horner, 2026-6-20

Unicorn Indus Seal of Kama, Hindu God of Love

Kama, god of love
Two hearts, man with bow; many arrows, vigorous activity; butter churn,
stirring the juices of emotion; Ganga river sign represents flow; Sun, light, stars, AMOR!!

Parpola p111

Parallels between Egyptian hieroglyphs and Indus script glyphs

Hieroglyph	Gardiner no.	description	unicode	Indus parallel	Mahadevan (1977) no	Indus glyph description
𓐓	Aa7	smiting blade	U+13413		#169	Kusha, razor grass. Purification, filtration, slicing, decapitation (Jyotirlinga), spears. Compare throw-stick T14, scimitar T16, khopesh. U40 support. Hand with fingers. Pillar supporting heaven. 𓉾 O30A. 𓍟 U40 Wing of swan avatar of Brahma, flapping many times seeking top of Jyotirlinga [seal ref L-88A]
𓏴	Z9	crossed sticks	U+133F4		#150	BOOM. Destruction. Death. Shiva destruction.
𓉗	O7	house, mansion (hwt), enclosure	U+13257		#267	House, temple, tirtha. Compare 08 with t-loaf mound and pillar. 𓉟 Linga analog?
𓁠	C4	Khnum god of Nile cataract, Flood. Fashioned people from clay. Created animal kingdom	U+13060			River, flood
𓌺	C4	Plow hoe, mr, love	U+13333A		#179	Plow (plowing) With double quotes Indus glyph, it is active verb: plowing, loving; Calendar occasion house of the sun / time. (M-314: Churning of the Ocean of Milk has fertilizing action like plowing, it releases life ambrosia, Amrita)

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Indus script interpreted as iconography of Hindu legends

by Celeste Claire Horner (2026)

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.

Mahadevan (1977)

Indus Script Deciphered as Icons of Epic Hindu Legends: glyph #16
SAMUDRA MANTHAN: THE CHURNING OF THE OCEAN OF MILK

Gods and demons turn a mountain in the Ocean of Milk to obtain Amrita, the elixir of immortality.

Figure 1. Indus Script glyph #16 deciphered by Celeste Claire Horner 2024 as Samudra Manthan, the legend of the Churning of the Ocean of Milk. Indus glyph from Mahadevan 1977 concordance.

CHURNING OF THE OCEAN OF MILK. How gods and demons turned a mountain to obtain the nectar of immortality. A tale from the Puranas told with Indus script characters.

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Cursed (#402) by a powerful sage (#25), the gods (Devas), suddenly lost all their powers, immortality, and wealth. Lakshmi, goddess of fortune (#65) (#72), vanished. Sage Durvasa, whose name means "hard to live with," angrily cursed the gods for becoming too arrogant. He was outraged because his gift of a holy flower garland, obtained from a divinely beautiful Apsara goddess (#46), was carelessly dropped and trampled under the foot (#341) of Airavata, the three-headed white elephant (#295) * ridden by Indra, the thunder-bolt hurling god of storms (#18) and king of the gods. Realizing his mistake, Indra begged for mercy, but Durvasa, the cantankerous sage who often played the radical wild-card, an upheaval-causing, justice enforcer in Hindu narratives, said flatly, "Foregiveness has no place in my personality."

THE CURSE OF SAGE DURVASA: Gods lose their fortune, Mount Mandara peak is uprooted

Sage with
walking
stick

MOUTH
"va" (व)
X/v ./v curse
horn, weapon
slash. Varaha
eat & breathe
negative, down

Sage's head
with
top knot

Beautiful
Apsara
goddess

Goddess
Lakshmi
crown, roof

Lakshmi
bestows
fortune

Indra
hurling
thunderbolt

Indra
rain cloud

Indra's
elephant
with tusk

foot

Top
Mount
Sumerian Kur

Mount
Meru

Mountain

Mount Meru
Bodhi
fig leaf

Gods turn
broken top
mountain peak

Eagle
Wings
AMRITA

Lakshmi, goddess of fortune

bestows blessings

THE GREAT WORK: Churning of the Ocean of Milk

Wheel
chakra
turtle
Light

VERB / OF
turning
churning
shining

OCEAN
water
5 trident
sceptre

VISHNU
upholder
preserver
god

SHESHA
Vasuki
rope
serpent

TUG OF
WAR
Infinite
Rama rings

TOGETHER
hands tied
marriage
team

BUTTER
CHURN
pestle
tongue

MORTAR
PESTLE
butter
churn

DARKNESS
poison
halahala
trap net

POISON
adversary
scorpion
eclipse

OUTFLOW
source
spring

FLOW
POISON
river

MOUTH
throat
horn, tusk
cut flesh

TIGER
SKIN
JAWS
SHIVA

The gods (Devas) were desperate. The only way to recover from this catastrophe was cooperate with their arch-rivals, the demons (Asuras) to churn (turn like a wheel #391) the Ocean (#171) * of Milk to obtain legendary magical artifacts from the bottom. Both sides were eager for power, so they agreed to stop fighting and work together (#228). First, they went to the center of the world and broke Mount Mandara (#16) off the peak of Mount Meru (#230) (#232) (#234). Gods died (but later revived) in the attempt to move the massive stone. Finally, Vishnu arrived with his giant eagle mount, Garuda, who, flapping his mighty wings (#56), lifted it up (#347) into the air and transported it his tremendous talons.

With a massive splash, the mountain dropped into the Ocean of Milk. It immediately began to sink. Vishnu quickly transformed into a gigantic turtle (#391), and swimming furiously, demonstrated his role as preserver and upholder (#347) of the universe, and carried it back up to the surface on top of his shell (#391). Like a chef preparing a soup, or a doctor preparing a remedy, or shaman mixing a mystical alchemical potion, the gods sprinkled magical herbs (#327) into the water to mystically season it. Then, the mighty multi-headed serpent, Shesha (Vasuki), was wound around Mounta Mandara like a rope (#175). The demons gripped the neck and the gods pulled the tail, back and forth like a tug-of-war (#254). This swung Mount Mandara back and forth like a butter churn (#336) (#252), and for a long, long, exhausting time, they labored together (#228) to stir the depths of mystical Ocean of Milk, hoping to release magical treasures including Amrita (#389)(#269), the elixir of immortality.

Then, another disaster struck. A nasty black foaming poison (#380) (#53) spewed out (#181) (#54) of the ocean depths. It threatened to destroy the whole world, and the gods were terrified (petrified), but Shiva heroically swallowed (#402) it. * The toxin turned his throat blue. Finally, 14 long-awaited treasures rose up. The crescent Moon (#293) emerged and was placed on Shiva's head to cool his fever from the poison. A wish-fulfilling tree (#17) , a wish-fulfilling cow (May all your wishes come true - leg (repeating hieroglyph F5 𓄙) wish cow, E endless. Also Vedas considered the 4 legs of Kamadenu) (#50) ; Varuni, the goddess of wine, beautiful Apsara maidens (#46), musical Gandarva gods, the most beautiful jewel in the universe, and Vishnu's cosmic conch shell (#389) were received. Lakshmi, goddess of fortune (#72), was rescued from the sea -- and with her return, the fortunes of the gods revived. Last to emerge was Amrita (#178) (#269) (#389) (#56), the elixir of immortality, carried in an urn by the Ayurvedic physician of the gods.

TREASURES FROM THE OCEAN OF MILK

MOON
crescent
Shiva's
crown

WISH
FULFILLING
TREE
goddess

WISH
FULFILLING
COW
/Nandi

OCEAN
water
5 trident
sceptre

VISHNU
upholder
preserver
god

CONCH
SHELL
AMRITA
OM

SACRED
CONCH
chiral spiral
OM

BUTTER
CHURN
mortar
pestle

Beautiful
Apsara
goddess

Pipal
sacred plant
wish tree
good & evil

AMRITA
conch
life line
incarnation

AMRITA
hoe plow
rake
soil

AMRITA
wings

Lakshmi
bestows
fortune

Seizing advantage, the demon Asuras immediately tackled the physician, snatched the urn, and stole the elixir for themselves. Vishnu however, distracted the demons with his irresistably beautiful goddess (#46) (#65) Mohini avatar form, and recovered it. The lusty demons, always in hot pursuit of lovely ladies, voluntarily gave it to her, mistakenly expecting she would serve it to them.

Another demon tried to steal elixir by disguising himself as the Moon and sneaking into the company of the gods, but that obvious fake was noticed, and he was promptly beheaded by Vishnu's Sudarshan chakra discus weapon (#391). Although beheaded, he didn't die. Because he had managed to swallow a sip of the elixir, his head and headless body each became immortal, and lived on separately as Rahu and Ketu. To this day, they cause lunar and solar eclipses (#53). Because their throats are open, eclipses are temporary. The Sun and Moon emerge and shine once again, encouraging people that the hard times they suffer will not last forever because the demon's trap has a hole in it. The Churning of the Ocean of Milk is an epic legend which illustrates the balance of cosmic forces and the Great Work and the unending cycle which sustains existence and life. Many seal inscriptions are dedicated to it. *

Global mythologies of the Ocean

Mosaic from a tier house in Ephesus, Turkey. Licensed from Alamy.com. Reference which helped decode the Indus Script character #171. This 5-tine fork representing Neptune's ocean sceptre, this is also Indus Script symbol #171, representing the element of water and the ocean. There is a parallel with Greek myth between Indian Lakshmi and Greek Aphrodite emerging from the Ocean, and between storm gods Indra and Zeus. Hindu legends vividly record the foundations of myths which appear worldwide, bearing answers for mysteries in European, and Egyptian mythology (pasha noose appearing in tomb paintings, and Naga serpents in underworld). Conversely, hieroglyphs such as the house and hoe helped to decode the Indus script.

Geological evidence of deep ocean churning due to Mars orbit resonance * Shiva is the churning rod. Shiva turns Oda Nagnath temple *

Indus glyphs in the legend Churning of the Ocean of Milk. Sage Durvasa (#25, 197) cursed Indra (#18) god of storms (#395), and ruler of gods, because Indra's elephant (#295) crushed the sage's gift. Lakshmi (#65, #72), goddess of fortune, disappeared into the sea, and the gods lost all their wealth and power. To regain their immortality, power, and riches, the gods broke off the top central peak (#234), Mount Mandara (#16) from the 5-peak Mount Meru (#232) at the center of the world to use it to drill and churn for magical treasures at the bottom of the Sea of Milk. The powerful wings (#56) of Garuda, Vishnu's mighty eagle enabled the gods to transport the mountain by air.

Sage with
walking
stick

Sage's head
with
top knot

Indra
hurling
thunderbolt

Indra
rain cloud

Indra's
elephant
with tusk

Goddess
Lakshmi
crown, roof

Lakshmi
bestows
fortune

Top
Mount
Sumerian Kur

Mount
Meru

Mountain

Mount Meru
Bodhi
fig leaf

Gods turn
broken top
mountain peak

Eagle
Wings
AMRITA

DIAGNOSTIC SIGNS. Inscriptions related to the Churning of the Ocean of Milk usually have 3 components:

Churning or turning symbols such as chakra wheel #391, butter churn #336, #252 mortar and pestle, tug of war rope #254, or #16 gods churning Mount Mandara.
Poison or Amrita symbols such as scorpion claw #53, dead bird #51, or corpse #48;
or Amrita #178, #269, #389 conch, #65 Lakshmi crown youth, #17 wish-fulfilling mother goddess tree, #56 wings, #400 / #269 / #269A lotus bud
#269A wish gem, #269 3rd eye thunderbolt, #176 endless, | incarnation staff, | immortality line
God symbols such as Shiva #342 or Vishnu #347

A broad selection of correlated signs and their relationships and interpretations are given below. *

SYMBOLS OF IMMORTALITY

MOON
crescent
Shiva's
crown

WISH
FULFILLING
TREE
goddess

AMRITA
conch
wish gem

ENDLESS
infinite

VISHNU
upholder
preserver
god

CONCH
SHELL
AMRITA
OM

SACRED
CONCH
chiral spiral
OM

BUTTER
CHURN
mortar
pestle

YOUTH
goddess
Lakshmi
crown, roof

Pipal
sacred plant
wish tree

AMRITA
hoe plow
rake
soil

AMRITA
wings

Lakshmi
bestows
fortune

First Indus seal discovered included Amrita symbol

MOUNT
MANDARA

TUG-OF-WAR

CHURN

butter churn
mortar pestle

linga, EL
Endless deep

Plow
AMRITA
elixir

Death
pashu noose

Demon
poison
adversary

LIGHT
mind, seed
sun, star
god

crescent moon
Light in dark
hidden
Ark

trident

SHIVA

Ishwara
Lord
Manu
Manes Pitr

dead bird
poison

DARK
poison
net trap *

Outflow
source

Swallow
black hole

conch shell
churn

OCEAN
5-point trident

CONCH
AMRITA
ELIXIR
OM

Maha
great #211
Up

head Moon
Asura, eclipse

CHAKRA wheel
world turtle
axis turn

AND, of
UNION
action
VERB

Mn FROM
give OUT
MOUNTAIN
DOWN, DIVIDE

VOID
nothing
singularity, focus
#0 CCH2024

Flow. "Jata"
Shiva's hair
break

head
MIND, top
consciousness
sage top-knot
butter lid

swallowing
mouth
digging

Vasuki
rope
Blue throat

(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

Proof of decipherment
Reading and Interpretation Demonstration

Example Indus Seals and Inscriptions
Seal 2312, Seal 2518, M-314, and the zebu bull seal
relate to the Churning of the Ocean of Milk Legend

Unicorn Yaali Seal: Churning of the Ocean of Milk

This seal represents the Churning of the Ocean of Milk, emphasizing how the multi-headed serpent Shesha coiled around the mountain and was used as a rope, pulled by both gods and demons. Similarly, there is a coil around the unicorn's neck. Next, the nasty scorpion claw poison sign is superimposed on a flow symbol. This seal considers the tension of cosmic forces in the universe, the apparent back-and-forth tug of war of life. Eventually the reward arrives, here with ambrosia lotus and goddess of fortune signs.

source: Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions

UNICORN YAALI SEAL. Mythical beast with an elephant trunk, the mount of Budh, the planet Mercury (important to alchemy). Likewise, the manger of the unicorn is an emblem of the secrets of alchemy, the exotic ingredients and processes needed to make ambrosia. The metaphor carries the esoteric meaning of the Churning of the Ocean of Milk, which is also probing the depths, and combining the great opposing forces to enable the secrets of eternal life to emerge.

UNICORN YAALI SEAL: Churning of the Ocean of Milk
#175	#53	#181	#400	#99	#65	#171	#162	#336	#252	#402

SHESHA Vasuki rope serpent	POISON adversary scorpion eclipse	FLOW POISON river	LOTUS BUD Vishnu navel AMRITA	AND union	LAKSHMI FORTUNE goddess child, youth	OCEAN water 5 trident sceptre	TRIDENT Shiva's trishul	BUTTER CHURN pestle tongue	MORTAR PESTLE butter churn	SHIVA tilak, vessel head mark ORIGIN

Inscription 2312: Shiva (Mahadev, great god, dispeller and destroyer of evil) swallowed the poison from the Churning (and saved the world).

SHIVA SWALLOWS POISON TO SAVE THE WORLD.
Inscription 2312: Churning of the Ocean of Milk legend written in ancient Indus Script, c 2000 B.C.

	SHIVA SYMBOL. Glyph #342:
	SHIVA'S TRIDENT. Glyph #162: trishul
	SCORPION. Glyph #53: Poison from the Ocean of Milk
	CONCH #389: Shiva drinks the Ocean poison from the sea shell
	CHURN. Glyph #252: Churning vessel and churning rod.
	MOUTH #402: Shiva swallowing poison.

(Credits: Indus glyphs and inscripions from Mahadevan 1977. Inscription #2312. Shiva drinking poison: Hindu Heritage, Facebook. Shiva in ocean graphic by Celeste Horner with hotpot.ai. C. Horner 2025-5-14.) Cobra image by Ganesh SahSudi - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org

LESSON OF THE LEGEND: Breadcrumbs from heaven / Things could be worse.

The importance of the Shiva swallowing the poison episode is this: we can imagine that no matter what trials and hard times we may experience in our lives, we can think that no matter how bad things seem, they could always have been worse. There is a far greater cloud of trouble that has been deflected or intercepted. We can thank the higher powers for a shield )) of protection. That is one reason why Shiva is venerated: for prior and ongoing gate-keeping of occult threats. And yet, the legends day that although Shiva swallowed the lions share of the poison, some drops of poison still fell. These were swallowed by serpents. Legends say that before this, serpents were not venomous. They developed a sting by swallowing the poison. This contribution and service was not forgotten. Recognizing their service, Shiva drapes serpents around his body. Vasuki coils around his neck, where the poison was confined (the blue throat chakra), and there are serpents around his arms. Similarly, we can think that our our trials are not forgotten, our tears are kept in a bottle and in some era or parallel timeline of the multiverse, those issues will be resolved. Now in the tradition such as the Nordic, where the Mead of Poetry spills among humans, we could say that drops of both the poison and the Amrita fell from the realm of the gods to Earth. That is a mythological reasoning why there is both good and evil in the world. It is overflow from another realm in addition to free-will choice in the current one. All is a cycle which eventually returns to a blessed and balanced state (which is always accessible by spiritual elevation). Halahala anchors haunted places. The blessings of Amrita are what sanctifies and empowers sacred places. They are splashes of divine Amrita which fell to earth. That is why, from this perspective, it is important and beneficial to visit pilgrimmage sites * to participate in the traditions and absorb the blessing. [2026-4-4] Kumbaya peace honey pot heart of the Sphinx notch

Throat chakra blue
Neck of entheogenic mushroom may turn blue due to oxidation. * -D 2026-4-6

Inscription 2518: Shiva swallowed death. He is lord forever.
Shining cosmic axis, a pillar of light with no end. Alternative: Enlightenment = No ego.

Example Inscription, glyph #16 in Seal 2518. Mahadevan (1977)

SEAL 2518. Gods turned a mountain [#16]. Poison [#48] came out [#124]. Shiva swallowed [#343] Death [#48]. Shiva [#342] is Lord [#1]. God, shining cosmic axis [#391] Eternal wheel [#391] of Time. Cycles with no [#0] end [#197]). Alternate: Enlightenment [#391] is End [#197] / no [#0] of Ego [#197]. End of ego: Indra punished for arrogance, and gods and demons both had to have the humility to work together.
#16	#124	#343	#48	#342	#1	#391	#197	#0

Gods turn mountain	Mn, from give, come out mountain	Shiva tongue swallows linga churn	Death poison	Shiva	Lord hero	Wheel, axis cycle, day GOD, LIGHT	Head top, Ego End	zero none

#244 B, #402 V. Bhuvah sacred syllable Bhuvah loka, realm of spirits. Ganga Falling #180 Bha (ga) va (d) Gita

Indus seal M 965A

Music? Treble and base, rhythm and melody. Tuning fork, alignment, vibration

Inscription M-314: Triple meaning marriage blessing amulet

CHURNING OCEAN OF MILK continued: Shiva saves the world

This seal is an ingenious triple or quadruple entendre:

1. tells the Churning of the Ocean of Milk legend
2. marriage of Shiva, an instance of the MahaShivratri, holy night of Shiva observance. *
3. Third reference: Kama Dev, god of love who was burn to ash by Shiva. Represented as figure with the cupid's bow, and a loving bride Parvati (trident). Far left, Shiva's 3rd eye which incinerated him for disturbing his meditation. The gods asked this dangerous mission because a son of Shiva needed to be born to defeat a world-threatening demon. Kama dev was transformed from a personal god to a universal presence.
4. General marriage blessing: Flow and open womb represent the progeny. Marriage interpretation

Zebu Bull Ambrosia Seal

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ZEBU BULL AMBROSIA SEAL
#269A	#402	#87	#180	#342	#269	#268	#120	#133	#12

AMRITA CONCH LIFE, egg wish gem	MOUTH SWALLOW horn, thorn tusk, dig	UNION alignment repeat LIGHT Jyotrl	FLOW control river SHIVA	SHIVA LIFE Α Ω ORIGIN	AMRITA CONCH life, egg incarnation	THUNDER BOLT vajra 3rd EYE up down seek	RIVER stream flow	WATER OCEAN flow wave	COSMIC BALANCE water bearer Shiva

* glyph 180 approximates that in the seal. There is no exact match for the two parallel wavy lines in the glyph catalog. * 268 embodied (walking staff) immortal | infinite line. Embodied immortal Shiva. || Light ~ Primordial water. Shiva =V= Origin -- serpents facing away, heading out around the cosmic loop. Caduceus. Third Eye. Ra with uraeus.

Interpretations: AMRITA - DRINK - UNION - FLOW - SHIVA (Origin). Because of the balance (#12) of the universe, the treasure of Amrita (#269) emerges unified (#87) and combined with an equal amount of poison, which Shiva swallowed (#402). This seal honors Shiva for controlling (#180 broken flow) the combined (#87) flow and protecting the world from the dangerous part. This is an allegory for the inner alchemy that each person must do to process the problems and poisons in their life and to savor the joyful, rewarding and sublime aspects also.

From the origin flows a union. Drink the amrita.

Seek above (#268). Dig downward (#402) and within. In unity flows Shiva

As above, so below. Unity. Flow. Origin

Embody (#269) Unified Light (#87). Flow. Fly (#342)

Unified: rose bud and thorn

269: heart + pearl, gem, spark, yoni. See anatomy seal with loin, stomach, heart of bull. TODO: upload. 269 glyph corrected by Celeste. Concordance lumps amrita conch with throat or incarnation staff. Should be 2 separate because amrita conch is very highly used. Only 1 occurrence of walking staff + conch in Concordance.

Zebu Bull Tiger Skin Seal

Bull: divine power, fertility, vitality. Shiva, powerful spiritual tiger who devoured evil, and Vishnu who upheld the Universe in the Churning of the Ocean of Milk

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DOUBLE ENTENDRE LIFE CODE: This Indus inscription ingeniously encodes two things simultaneously: the Churning of the Ocean of Milk legend, and the anatomy and life processes of the Zebu bull. 1. Mouth (#244 tiger jaws). 2. Tongue (#336 vessel and spoon, tongue and spoon, butter churn). 3. Hoofs (#347 upraised hands). 4. Loins, fertility (#252 butter chaurn, pestle). 5. Life cycle (breathing, circulation, seed, egg, fertilizer excretion. Wheel symbol). 6. Excretion, seed emission (out symbol).

TIGER SKIN SHIVA: Churning of the Ocean of Milk
#244	#336	#347	#252	#391	#98	#391	#391 #99	#391 #98

TIGER SKIN JAWS SHIVA	BUTTER CHURN pestle tongue	VISHNU upholder preserver god	MORTAR PESTLE butter churn	Wheel chakra turtle Light	AND PLURAL AND OF VERB	NOT NONE FROM OUT OF	CHURNING turning shining	CHURNED OUT

Tiger energy devours negativity and recharges

THE TIGER SKIN SYMBOLIZES THE POWER OF THE GOD SHIVA. In his iconography, he is shown seated on a tiger skin meditation mat or clad with a tunic made from tiger skin. The full story of this is told in the legend of the #SEVEN SAGES and origin of linga worship. The key idea however, recognizes Shiva's ability to transmute and absorb dangerous negative energy.

Shiva is called adiguru, the first guru of yoga. The Seven Sages, the saptarishi were the first disciples. Once Shiva tried to teach his students a lesson, but instead of learning or reflecting, they became offended and angry. They were so outraged that they all gathered around a sacrificial fire and combining their powers, conjured a supernatural tiger monster from the flames. Shiva battled and wrestled the magical beast and succeeded in conquering the energy of the magical attack. By sitting on it, he demonstrates his his foundation of power, and mastery over emotion and passion. As an ascetic with nothing of his own, he deflected and converted for divine use hostility directed at him. It is a lesson for all to perform alchemy on the hardships and problems of life, demonstrating turning lead into gold of a positive solution.

With a masterful move of spiritual judo, Shiva captured and redirected the hostile attack energy directed at him, and transformed the tiger into his own magic carpet, his spiritually charged meditation seat..

This seal evokes the radiant ferocity of the tiger and the solid strength of the bull. The Sanskrit word for tiger is व्याघ्रः (vyāghraḥ) . Meta: vi life. Ag fire. ra light, roar, grrrrowl, rumble, thunderrrr.

In the legend of the Churning of the Ocean of Milk, Shiva absorbed the negative energy of the Halahala poison and saved the world. In the legend of Descent of Ganga, it is Shiva alone who has the strength to act as a shock absorber for the fall of the Ganga river from heaven. The force is described as equivalent to thousands of oceans. Shiva catches the divine river in his matted locks of hair before the water is discharged at a gentle rate onto Earth.

Corpus continued. Decorative seals. Indo-Iranian borderlands

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.

Introduction

Ancient Indian Hieroglyphs Deciphered

Indus Script Interpreted as Iconography of Hindu Legends

Rosetta Stone discovered. Tiger seal portrays legend of god Shiva

by Celeste Claire Horner, 2024, 2026 *

C. Horner with hotpot.ai

HE ANCIENT INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION was in its prime around 2600 B.C, at the same time as pyramid building in Egypt, and contemporary with culture flourishing in Mesopotamia and China. Its urban center of Mohenjo-daro had engineered running water and public pools. Its population of 50,000 was the largest on Earth. Mysteriously, Indus script disappeared from use about 1800 B.C. * It remained undeciphered for centuries because a multi-lingual translation had not been found.

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 revealed the context, and the story depicted in the scene and led to the decipherment of the text.

The seal depicts a hunter named Lubdhaka. Trapped by a wild tiger, he 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. The seal was one of many celebrating the holy holiday of MahaShivratri, still commemorated to this day.

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, discoverer of the C-rex T-rex in Montana, * * and independent researcher of comparative language and symbology, resident on the Oregon coast, USA.. 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] *

Methodology

1. OBSERVATION: Indus seals feature Shiva icons, yogic postures, and legends. HYPOTHESIS: Shiva is the primary theme of Indus Script seals

First, it was observed that numerous Indus Script seals feature the god Shiva. Numerous artificats depict his form as Pashupatinath, lord of animals, surrounded by tigers, bulls, elephants, and forest beasts. As Adiyogi, the first yogi, Shiva is shown seated in lotus posture. This research uncovered that tiger seals commemorate MahaShivratri, the high holy night of Shiva. Since the god Shiva was the focus, it was hypothesized that the Indus script was oriented to religious and spiritual subjects.

2. STUDY HINDU LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY. IDENTIFY ICONOGRAPHIC MOTIFS OF THE PURANAS. CORRELATE WITH INDUS SCRIPT SYMBOLS

To decode the language, it was necessary to study the culture. Decoding the symbols required initiation, a prerequisite backround in Hindu wisdom, mythology, and lore. (For instance a three-legged man appeared which is absolutely unique and unmistakable. How often do you encounter a 3-legged man? The reader was expected to know the Ardhanarishwara story, or it was a conceptual prompt for a trained story-teller. A somewhat sexist sage named Bhringi would only worship the god Shiva, but stubbornly excluded Shiva's wife goddess Parvati. The couple even tried fusing their bodies together, but the sage turned into a bee and bored through the shared navel, only worshipping Shiva's half of the body. Angered, Parvati cursed him to lose his flesh and blood inherited from his mother and only have masculine traits, his nerves and bones. He became a skeleton with three legs.) The Puranas and Hindu lore were examined and key motifs identified. These motifs were matched to the 417 Indus glyphs classified by Mahadevan 1977. The glyphs, organized by Hindu legend, creates a systematic matrix of association and interpret Indus inscriptions at the thematic level, transforming the disparate collection into a coherent, classified body of thought.

3. DETERMINE READING DIRECTION and DEDUCE SYMBOLISM FROM CORRELATION PATTERNS

Reading direction is a challenge because some seals are reverse image. Direction may start on left, right, or zig-zag in bostrophodon format, as the ox plows, setting up a subtle metaphor of spiritual earth harvesting agriculture. This study adopts the conventions of Egyptian hieroglyphs, reading into the faces of gods and living animals, and into the backs of skeletons or dead animals. The seals with beasts are given the most authority as reference to the directionality of assymetrical charaters. The animals have symbolism related to the yanas (vehicles) of various deities. A bull is Nandi, the mount of Shiva. The hybrid elephant-bull-lion-horse Yaali is the mount of Budh (planet Mercury), an emblem of wisdom. A unicorn may encode Indian alchemy and Amrita, which ancient Harappans might have believed were embued with blessings for health. Glyph #342, the most common in the Indus corpus, a jar with horizontal bars, was identified as a tilak, the forehead mark of Shiva devotees. Connecting to other Shiva signs such as the #162 trishul (trident) helped to progress the decryption.

4. DECODE: IDENTIFY GRAMMAR AND MESSAGES

Grammatical devices, conjunctions, plurals, and danda punctuation were identified. Short utterances such as, OM nama Shivaya, Mahadeva, and Adiyogi were detected. The expectation is that longer formulas are symbolic mantras for contemplation, and can spell or symbolize the names of gods, sages, and places of pilgrimmage bearing spiritual blessing as prasad.

5. ANALYZE STATISTICS OF GLYPH CORRELATION GROUPS

Statistical compliance with predictions and associations is evaluated. SHIVA and related compounds dominate the most frequent combinations in Indus seals. Develop heuristics relating diagnostic glyphs to particular legends and codify as a program for interpreting Indus inscriptions.

Results

There are 417 Indus script glyphs cataloged by Mahadevan (1977). The most frequent glyph, #342, appears 1362 times, which is 10% of the corpus of 13,372 characters. This glyph is hypothesized to represent the forehead mark (tilak) worn by devotees of the god Shiva. This glyph also dominates the most frequent pairs, appearing in 5 of the top 10 most frequent pair combinations. Corroborating the Shiva hypothesis, emblems of the god, such as his wife Sati, trident (trishul weapon), and crescent moon crown, his destructive power, and Mount Kailash abode are depicted in the top 10 most frequent pairs.

STATISTICAL EVALUATION - MOST FREQUENT INDUS GLYPH PAIRS

417 INDUS CHARACTERS	417 total characters Mahadevan 1977	1 - 417	13372
MOST FREQUENT INDUS GLYPH	SHIVA tilak forehead mark. Linga. Sacred vessel with wings or flames. Alchemical crucible. Tuning fork, Vibrant void, sacrum bone Double head serpent alpha omega. Annihilation and Origin	342	1362
MOST FREQUENT PAIR	HOUSE OF, TEMPLE OF, TIRTHA OF 99: UNION. AND, plural, of. 267: house, temple, tirtha, shrine Temples, houses, town Egyptian house, temple, mansion, Egyptian hieroglyph 06 𓉗 O8 𓉟 (Includes pillar, connection to linga? Loaf t resembles omphalos) hieroglyph O6, O8, hwt, pr	99 267	290
2ND MOST FREQUENT PAIR	342: SHIVA. 176: Endless. Cosmic axis, spine, degrees of elevation, space	342 176	184
3RD MOST FREQUENT PAIR	89: Continuous, repeated action verb indicator. Three stroke count. Many. Repeated. Numerous #336: Butter churn. Legend: Churning the Ocean of Milk	89 336	184
5TH MOST FREQUENT PAIR	342: SHIVA. 48: Skeleton. Burnt corpse of wife Sati * Puni Devati. Karakal Amiar. Handstand skeleton woman #48.3	342 148	114
6TH MOST FREQUENT PAIR	342: SHIVA, annihilator. 347: Vishnu, upholder	342 347	110
7TH MOST FREQUENT PAIR	342: SHIVA. 8: SHAKTI. Cosmic feminine principle. Goddess	342 347	93
8TH MOST FREQUENT PAIR	342: SHIVA. 1: god, man, lord, Min, Ishwara	342 1	87
Frequent pair	123: knife blade. 293: Moon. (Shiva) Lord of Time	123 293	54
Frequent pair	342: SHIVA. 59: god, deva.	342 59	44
Frequent pair	342: SHIVA. 149: Explosion. BOOM! Destruction. Strike. Blast. Target obliterated Mind-blowing expansion of realization. Transformation. Explosive revelation. Threshold, gateway, transition, cross, bridge. Exception. Loophole in invincibility boon. Anomaly. Logic value: Nya. No/yes/sortof Realm of ghost paradox fluid counterfactual Mercurial reflections \|\|\| Maya. Normal rules don't apply: not day, not night, not in, not out (Narasimha). Psychopomp enabling souls to X cross between realms. Infinite light. Cosmic axis. Junction. Gateway. Exit. Off-road of standards and expectations. Jyotirlinga site	342 149	44
Frequent pair	342: SHIVA. 162: Trishul (trident)	342 162	40
Frequent pair	342: SHIVA. 135: Mount Kailash	342 135	23
Frequent pair	342: SHIVA. 293: Moon	342 293	14

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Top frequency Indus glyph pairs

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M-1097: Vishnu's boar avatar which dug low to find end of Jyotirlinga. Mountain glyph Mn. Reversed nM nama, I bow. And double eye, big ring for base of horn moutain, small ring for peak. Other wise signifying OO, two looked, neither found the end of infinite Jyotirlinga.
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

POSSESSIVE / relational / preposition
House of / Temple of		99
CONJUNCTION
AND	"	99
BUT NOT 1/1	' /
NOT	'	97
NOT	'	98
NUMBER
UNION / AND / DUAL / PLURAL	"	99
DIVISION / OUT. 1/1	' /
NEGATION / NOT	'	97
NEGATION / NOT	'	98
NONE		0
VERBS
TRINITY, some, many	\|\|\|
ACTIVE VERB repeat marks for active verb	"	99
ACTIVE VERB (#391 + #99 = shining, turning, churning. #85 walking, #124 giving; #416 chanting)	"	99
ACTIVE VERB (#178 + #99 = #179 plowing. Also solar Aditya and Lunar mansion times)		99
Give out, come out. Lubdhaka tiger seal, giving out bilva leaves		124
*REPETITION / CONTINUOUS ACTION. Danda sticks title delimiter. Bangles: fertility, abundance, repetition**	\|\|	87
REPETITION / Danda sticks. Walking, repeating (E hiero).
REPETITION / Danda sticks. Turning, rolling, shining
REPETITION / Danda sticks. Emerging (Lotus emerging from Vishnu's navel. Plants sprouting, growing, and blooming)
REPETITION / Danda sticks. Chanting (mala rosary beads with repeat marks)
REPETITION / Danda sticks. Speaking (mouth with " quote ditto marks hum tracks / action )
REPETITION / Danda sticks, shloka verse	\|\|/	93
REPETITION / Danda sticks, rhythm	\| //	94
Use for toponyms per Asko Parpola theory. * * harappa.com	94
\|\|3\|\| Demarcation used to number label Sanskrit verses	94

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Seal M-314 illustrates the use of double quote mark as verb indicator for (#391 #99) shining, churning; (#179) plowing, and mating () |||, and birthing () |||. This is a marriage and fertility talisman.

READING DIRECTION

Celeste Claire Horner (2024) determined the reading direction of Indus Glyphs. She applied the convention of Egyptian hieroglyphs, which can also be approached from two directions when placed symmetrically on either side of a doorway or moumental inscription. The rule is to read towards the face of a god, man, or living being. The direction is opposite when the glyph represents a being which is dead (the skeleton corpse of Sati, glyph #48) or disgraced (the dead and disgraced bird avatar of Brahma, glyph #51, found guilty of cheating and lying during the Jyotirlinga incident. Brahma was decapitated (lost one of 5 heads) as punishment).

The front face of assymetrical characters is determined when they are placed on seals with divine animals. Investigation will show that the letter placement is consistent. The front faces of glyphs will always be the same relative to each other. A single asymmetrical glyph can help determine the reading direction of an inscription without a reference animal.

Of the 417 Mahadevan glyphs, 166 are (~40%) assymetrical and require a front and back to be identified.

Notice the protruding element of glyph #402 faces the front, the same side as the nose of the divine unicorn, in the examples below.

BANYAN Tree leaf and Markandaya survived a Pralaya cosmic theatre shutdown/renovation/memory-consolidation while Vishnu was sleeping and protecting!! King of Trees. Trancendental. * *

Alphabetic decoding progress

ALPHABETIC ASSIGNMENTS OF THIS STUDY * agree with S Sati skelton, B above (p mat hieroglyph, connects to Shiva's tiger mat, his base root chakra, energy mastering lower passions. Vishnu floats on water, Shiva sits in fire!). TBA ABKDMSTV etc.

Ananta
Endless

Ajna / Agni
fire drill (butter churn) ignites enlightenment

Deva

Dve dual

Hari
Vishnu, the upholder

JL
jala net, jail, Jyotirlinga

spiritual release
Divine revelation as gates open

Kalkut poison
Halahala kh

Manthan

Mn / Nm
Mountain, give out
nama, I bow
Agastya Mountain bow down

N
number 9 nava
JL jalax net, nome
gate
bricks
navagraha planet chart; knowledge 18 Puranas

P pada foot
Y '/ Pashupati
noose loop steps

Y
AND
yoke together, Yoga, yoni, UNION
conjunction
PLURAL, VERB active, payee / object

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"a"
POINT
zero
none
void

"a"
slash
zero
none
void

divided, separated from

ADVAITA
NON-DUAL
United
\ "a" without apart divide
|| two, division

DUAL, 2
द्वे dve

Jyotirlinga pillar of light

DEVA
god
Brahma

Shiva nirguna no qualities, blank god fish

DEVA
4-arm
Vishnu

DEVA
Shiva
3rd eye

Brahma, horizontal crack, hatched golden egg

TA
Sumerian "ti" arrow, life.

Chinese:
天 (Tiān, "Heaven

@at up
ad to
great
Maha

haute, high

dedicated to

O Great!

Brahma
swan bird
avatar

Brahma w/
parasol

goddess
Lakshmi
blessings
fortune

Brahma navel lotus
Shiva 3rd eye
Vishnu upholder

Br
Tiger jaws
mouth

Shiva's tiger meditation mat

Bars
prison
open

A
Ajna tilak
BUTTER CHURN
vessel
tongue spoon
br beer straw

H
Hari VISHNU
hands up praise
preserver

M
MORTAR
Butter
churn
manthan

An Heaven
LIGHT
WHEEL
chakra
Anu
ring

N OUT
NOT

E10 ba soul 𓃝 M34 grain emmer 𓇣

Z9 𓏴 𓃳 𓁡 E28A, NL, NU Egyptian nome hieroglyphs 𓌙 T14 throw stick
Indus glyph animal key? Manger means animal is tamed, domesticated

Testing 2026-5-27: #245 Concordance entry. Field kshetra क्षेत्र (kṣetra) , plowed fields, districts, irrigated quarters, agricultural land (compare Egyptian nomes), Indra's net jala, or the net representing the haul from the Churning of the Ocean of Milk. Nine: Navagraha 9 planet astrological chart. Region, area, realm, loka domain. Gates. The primary Sanskrit word for gate or door is द्वार (dvāra) or द्वारम् (dvāram)$$ For a more specific meaning, you can use गोपुर (gopura) for a grand, monumental city or temple gate, or तोरण (toraṇa) for an ornate archway or decorative gateway. This glyph associated with Vishnu's two gate-keepers in the Curse of the Kumaras, and with Churning of Ocean. Also appears with Jyotirlinga legend, where Brahma searches heaven *domain* and Vishnu searches underworld *domain*, digging with his Varaha boar tusk. Wings and Tusks differentiate heavenly vs demon realms. Also resembles a batch of bricks, * brick molds or cut stone (compare hieroglyphs). As rectangle, could be B or p mat. Sumerian throne: kingdom, realm, domain. A lot of Sumerian writing was administrative and legal, keeping track of tracts of land, so a symbol for land borders would be likely. Brick house Graha planet house guarded House with many chambers. Gyn. Gastric cow 4 chamber stomach. 4 Vedas.i 4 pillars of heaven. Re-Find the Indus buffalo seal design with heart, stomach, and loin. Tracts of surveyed lands, royal land grants, irrigated lands, city districts, land plots. Books, structured knowledge, the 18 Puranas. Indus cities were built on grid patterns.

chi upside down ankh, childbirth, head and arms of baby, giving life. Here also the churning action of Shesha wrapped around mount Mandara

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Conjunction: S Sati, skeleton. B/P mat hieroglyph, more possible F, n, o, i....A

Alphabetic Interpretation of the Dholavira Sign

Dholavira had a stadium for 10,000 people. This sign invited people to enter to be entertained and edified! The sign was located by the north gate to the city, and the gypsum would have glowed at night. Perhaps there were dramatic evening firelight performances and gatherings. North has the significance of permanence and infinity since it is the location of the north star which doesn't set. (The north shaft of Egyptian pyramids enabled the souls of the pharaohs to joing the imperishable stars). By fire light, an amazing oratory, magic and spectacle would take place with actors, circus, costumes, strong men, heavenly beauties, adventure, romance, humor, and musicians, with audience invited to sing songs of spiritual import. An attraction drawing attendance of thousands. A marvel. Clever engineering effects. A social occasion, time to pass on traditions, meet, feast, celebrate. Flags, food, flowers, perfumes, market. Special Night. Perhaps they would all look at the stars and be told the lore of heaven related to the planets of the occasion. The greatest show on earth.

Dholavira Theatre entrance: 𒀭 Heaven Maker's Truth. Listen and learn

Star and hammer: Heaven's maker
Star and hammer: light maker
Star and gavel / double-sided axe: judgement TRUTH
Star and hammer: hard painful truth. Dual truth. Duala Birth of Truth. Mountain of Truth. Mine of Truth. Verdad (*)
D dawn deity. HOL holistic whole. VRA vera truth. Turning wheel, sky of stars turning
VL wheel and hammmmer VL DD VER turning DD hammer TRUTH
(*) () X i (*). Light Dark Tranformation spark (candle in dark lights others) Light again. Cosmic Theatre
(*)k Light claw. Light keeper
Dholavira sign: to the auditorium. Parse at two vowels together, or two consonants repeated.
AD to; VERA turn, towards; VERA Truth. VA go
AD VrA OXIA AK
AD VERA OCCIA AK - TO TRUTH HEARD TOGETHER. Hear stories and wisdom.
Alpha Omega X AXΩ
verbs ending with wheel, imperative, exhortative. Va - go. oxia - listen.
Star hammer, heaven creator, God's truth VrA
AD VA OCCIO ACC Ad va, to go, Entrance of auditorium. Ad (to - ad infinitm) va (go) Occio (hear, sea) ACC assembly auditorium stadium, assembled seats
AD TRA OXIA AK - ENTER, SEE TOGETHER
AD VERA OXIA AK - TO TRUTH, LISTEN and LEARN
5 wheels, puzzle, (*) meanings hidden, circle star
A D VerA OCCIA AK - To True Deity Lord God listen and learn
A D VerA OCCIA AK - To Heaven's Maker, listen and learn
A D VerA OCCIA AK - The Truth of Heaven's Maker: listen and learn
A D VerA OCCIA AK - Heaven's Maker Truth. Hear spirit now
(Akh, Egyptian Akh effective power, spirit n of Aten sun, light keeper) now (clamp spinning wheel, stop time, instant)
4 wheels make the cart: (*) male, (*) seed, ()(*) child, (*) mother

The auditorium would be a place to hear sages tell memorized oral traditions, stories and wisdom. Theatre. Worship. Celebration

1. A light, star, god, heaven = An (Sumerian). (Wheel, chakra) Ring=an
2. Drum Damaru (Shiva's instrument, beats cosmic time rhythm). Hammer, creation.
3. Vriksha tree. (Tree of good and evil, magic herb) Penetration to the heart of, Know, light; inseminate light, seed light.
5. Open mouth, voice, song, poetry, story
6. X exchange, listen
7. I self, idea
8. light, enlightenment
10. claws, calipers, scorpion, poison. Tongs, Grab something hot! (*) Hot coal, metallurgy metaphor

AD (to) VA (voice / go) VRA (vera truth) oxia (occia hear/see) akh (together, assembly, spirit, acumen, aquire wisdom, learn, light-get)
Dola vira painful truth. via Dolorosa? Gods whole truth. Dieu Holo

Dholavira sign in Indus script interpreted by Celeste Horner. CCH 2026-5-30, 2026-5-23 02:13

Harappa.com description * * *

Discussion

DEEP 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 *

Pole Star Table

Shiva with slope-back mammoth and stiped cave lion. Indra had multi-trunk exotic elephant Airavata, possible reference to 4 tusk Gomphothere. Zoo

(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

Gupta Egypt E house Gy Gaia Earth Pt Heaven Ta land Aa great TA tongue Earth land terrain. MIL mel sweet. Mouth, langue tongue land. Ta head tete top. Ma manus hand middle. Leg ankle L low. Complete. Ma mouth lay la tongue y yield forth. Mot (death, word) Palavra MR Amr (deathless, love) Meta-linguistics Tai Tian Ti arrow Ta big Chinese Sumerian Di god, lord Shang Di. Bengal Ben B breast, belly n ne born - son. gal great. En gal An D En / An heaven. gal great. D deity, lord. Reconstruction: Genesis - the whole world was of one speech and one language.

QUESTIONS: Have you noticed any structural similarities or overlapping iconographies between the Indus characters and early proto-cuneiform or proto-Elamite signs in your research so far? Role of most common glyphs. Egyptian, Cuneiform, Elamite, Chinese, Arabic V seven Siva.

Z9 𓏴, Z10 𓏵 hieroglyph destroy, cross-over.
Pr house, Hieroglyph 08 mansion, house, great house. 𓉟 temple hwt, hwt '3t great house hwt at.
Mr harrow plow U6 𓌺 U7 𓌻.
Hieroglyph Q3 𓊪 p mat, stool, seat.
Phonetic complements.
Towards the face reading direction used in hieroglyphs.

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. *

Kenoyer, JM and Meadow, RH. Inscribed objects from Harappa excavations. Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions. volume 3

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.

Ahmad Al-Jallad. OCIANA database. 2024-4-2

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.

GOD IS ONE: Three-sided prism amulets illustrate the three faces of Trimurti, yet unity of god


3 sided prism and 2-sided fish show one god with multiple faces. The river is one, yet it has two banks. See god reflected everywhere. Teaches empathy for all.

Harappa.com
Three sided prism tablets cleverly employs geometry to construct a physical metaphor potentially representing the three-in-one god Trimurti, a fusion of Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma. SHIVA: water-bearer (Ganga) and ||| three strokes or trishul. VISHNU: V tilak and |||| four strokes for four arms. Third side with 4-head Brahma, 3-head trimurti, or temple #267 symbol. Unicorn seal represents the legend of the two gatekeepers of Vishnu who were cursed to have three human lifetimes for being rude to the Kumara sages, who looked like children even though ancient. Larger figure: Shiva, the keeper of balance, water-bearer (Swallowed Ocean of Milk poison and is shock-absorber for Ganga river falling from heaven). Could be used as divination or calculation devices, counting sticks with faces being multipliers or special operations etc. Calendar markers for holy festivals or cooking / fermentation operations etc. Game pieces like checkers with possibility of promotion by turning to highest face.

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

Brahma 5th head

Writing direction

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

When Vega was Pole Star

Vishnu hid the image under the sand


Chalcholithic. Bronze Age. Kiln. Pottery, metalsmithing. Sacred fire	#194

Harappa.com. Map of river-side Harappa archaeological site.
(Seek acropolis, ruler dwelling, ashram on highest point overlooking the river? CCH 2026)

Harappa.com slides 2. Mohenjodaro Stupa.
(Tower of Babel base / connection?)

Teposiris Magna tower

Indusscript.in home banner *

Genesis: Garden of Eden

Zack Kinkade (2019)

Pashupati, lord of animals, god of nature. Potentially a Garden of Eden scene. Deity is in center, animals surround. The woman at top left is Eve, and the man between the mammoth / elephant and tiger is Adam. In center, above the deity head, something is split or broken open, a broken covenant, revealing twin sparks. The #99 symbol means AND, union. The divided sheaf is Deva division, also the Shiva symbol tilak forehead mark. Below the seat of Pashupati, there are twin ibex (symbols of wisdom god, Enki) facing away from each other. This scene represents a rupture. Elephant / mammoth of fortune, obstacle removal, properity is facing away. The tiger of passion is attacking. The bull of strength is aligned.

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).

Garden of Eden story from the Bible?
Book of Genesis in the Indus script?

APPLE WITH TWO BITES. CCH 2026-3-31 speculation:

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.

Indus seal with unicorn. Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and tug-of-war serpent rope

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: Seal C-61A, Chanhu-daro. Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions, v 3.2. Asko Parpola, editor. (2011). p 111

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.

"So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way of the tree of life"

Brahmini blind snake. All female, parthenogenic. Worm-like serpent. Satan described as dragon, serpent, and worm.

Genesis story also known in ancient China and Mesopotamia. * (Pangu and Nuwa - separate chaos, rainbow connection) garden

Tree of
Knowledge
Good and Evil

Tug of
War
Good and Evil

And

Apple
two bites taken
core

Cherubim
two bows
guardian

Evil eye
destruction
hammer
seal

Three
condemned:
Adam, Eve
Serpent

Amrita
immortality
Life

River
of Life
flowing
out of Eden

Amrita
Key to Life

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

Tower of Babel

Teposiris Magna tower. Lighthouse of Alexandria replica. Wisdom symbol Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions. Collections in Pakistan
Tower of Babel in Indus Script God destroyed tower, (All people) are dispersed (flow out)

Head Tower	Brahma's 5th head ego, pride	Destruction armed god	outflow

CCH 2026-5-5

Mohenjodaro seal M1424 A . Corpus of Indus Script Seals and Inscriptions. Collections in Pakistan

TOWER OF BABEL DESTRUCTION GLYPHS

SHIVA
LIFE Α Ω
ORIGINENDD

MOUNTAIN
HIGH
peak
Kailash

ORIGIN
LIFE
Lotus
eye, navel, seed

SHIVA /3
Destroyer

WATER
Earthquake
flow
wave

TOWER
HEAD
ego

AMRITA
CONCH
LIFE, egg
wish gem

MOUTH
SWALLOW
horn, thorn
tusk, dig

UNION
alignment
repeat
LIGHT Jyotrl

FLOW
control
river
SHIVA

AMRITA
CONCH
life, egg
incarnation

THUNDER
BOLT
3rd EYE
up down seek

RIVER
stream
flow

COSMIC
BALANCE
water
bearer Shiva

DESTRUCTION
death
cross-roads

Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions, v 3.2, Parpola, editor. p 113

1. Tandava Shiva destruction foot. 2. Tower. 3. Split. Division. 4. Circle, intersection, unity. 5. Shiva trident. Pillar of Heaven (tower). Fork, division, dispersion. Union. Tree, Eden. Alternate: Foot, head. Divided, Unified. Triune. Shiva. Throw down, build up. Divide, Unify. Pillar of heaven, Axis of universe, Shiva.

Wing Brahma swan. Ego head. Angel. PATR father. Pada steps, lord. Damaru. Tri three. 5 Pancha. Foot Pada. Head Ego.

Legend of Haic, a builder of the Tower of Babel from Armenia

Tower of Babel in Indus Script God destroyed tower, (All people) are dispersed (flow out)

Foot of Shiva Tandava, destruction	Head Tower	Steps Division \ negation '	Brahma's 5th head ego, pride	Union Sound, thunder Damaru drum	Trident Heaven pillar division tree

1800 BC comet impact, Derinkuyu form subterranean retreat? Katharine Fischer dissertation Bruno Meissner (1927) JS-4 lament tablet, Jenna university collection. Second Intermediate Period Egypt disruptor?

#133: Like cosmic lotus growing from the navel of Vishnu. It becomes the seat and birth of Brahma. The tower was like a space elevator with a long tether to outer-space, means to climb to heaven. Struck down with great destruction. Earth station tethered to orbiting platform, tension allows it to act as pillar. Seed cable is dropped from orbit, then reinforcements hoisted from Earth. If Lotus grows from Vishnu, he is underwater, and Brahma floats on next layer of reality? 2026-5-9

BOOK OF JASHER: Tower of Babel three days walk at the base, one year to ascend. The builders saught to attack the residents of heaven.

chapter 9

SHIVA MATH. Tuning fork tilak nodes. Shiva = V. V/0 = 1. Wavelength is the whole. V/1 = 2, one node, two sections. V/2 = 3, two nodes, two divisions, 3 sections. V/3 = 4. Three dividers, 4 parts. V/0: universal Shiva, void. V/1: Shiva linga, Shiva solo, unity. V/2: Shiva and Shakti pair, balance. V/3: Mode 3 is destroyer. 2026-5-9

Destroyer bow is actually a sunset with angle of incidence. Yuga delimiter between Satya and Treta.

TODO: Shiva tuning symbols and head thought mode glyphs

Etemenanki. E Te men an ki E house. Ti arrow. men establish, build, Egyptian. an heaven. ki earth. Tower of Babel

Unicorn horn: direction, pro / pra. Also: a, not. Linga. Tower. Amrita. Life, Focus, wisdom.

Legend of 3 days walk to the top of the tower of Babel. Same distance as Karmen line, edge of 62 miles above earth, edge of space.

Decapitation of ego pervasive theme. Brahma's 5th head glyph (#198) represents the Tower of Babel. Implies the builders of the tower were acting out of overweening pride. However, legends also say gods sabotage the legitimate progress of men. Indra got jealous and distracted sages whose penance was too effective at gaining spiritual power. The gods like Brahma and Indra allow their names to be used as object lessons and appear imperfect to make a didactic point in a dramatic way so that the lesson will be remembered.

skyscaper universe - Hindu 14 world conception

Genesis 11. New International Version. The people were united. Indus seals emphasize unity thinking. The people lived east of Eden, which was in the Persian Gulf region, perhaps in the Indus valley. They baked bricks, another correlation with the Indus culture.

The Great Flood

Genesis in the Indus Script

HIGH WATER LINE in the center of the seal. THE FLOOD.

Indus cylinder seal. Water line at the trees, fish above animals. Gods or giants wading in the ocean (Tartaria legend 14).

Cycles of creation (Right and left edge: Dragons soaring into the air from deity of life with leaves and animal features, creative work-table or music) and destruction (center: two tigers attack deity). There are three upright fish sage deity symbols. Trimurti. Three angels of destruction at Sodom and Gomorra. Alchemy code (tiger: acid, decomposition? Dragon: Amrita production and release). 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

FLOOD DESTRUCTION GLYPHS

MOUNTAIN
HIGH
peak
Kailash

AMRITA
CONCH
LIFE, egg
wish gem

LOTUS FLOWER
EYE, navel
seed, ORIGIN

MOUTH
SWALLOW
horn, thorn
tusk, dig

UNION
alignment
repeat
LIGHT Jyotrl

FLOW
control
river
SHIVA

SHIVA
LIFE Α Ω
ORIGIN

AMRITA
CONCH
life, egg
incarnation

THUNDER
BOLT
3rd EYE
up down seek

RIVER
stream
flow

WATER
OCEAN
flow
wave

COSMIC
BALANCE
water
bearer Shiva

DESTRUCTION
death
cross-roads

DESTRUCTION
DEATH
cross-roads

wave-particle duality
See long inscription H-10: Two trees (Knowledge and Life). Armed guardian. Rain. Two churns. Two apples? Hail? Ganga flowing waters, flood. (*) Sun returns, wheel. Else a Churning reference with Tree of Life, Meru reference, rain is repeated churning, slightly weaker signal.
M-1123 Shiva water bearer, cosmic axis and 4 world pillars holding up the corners of the world. Egyptian also has heaven support pillar hieroglyph.

Marsh style tower houses with domesticated birds. Woven from reeds.

Tel Halaf pottery. Archaeo-revival *. Time to bring back these beautiful patterns to modern ceramics and textiles!

Legend of Matsya

water oblations by 105 year-old woman

Goats climb mountain heights and lick salt nutrients. Alchemy reference. Evidence that salt-lick is the correct interpretation for the unicorn manger / feeding trough / standard. Different stages of alchemy? Bull vs unicorn? 2026-5-9 Paul. Ibex mother and kid climb sheer wall to lick dissolved salt. * Ibex heraldry: Twin ibex have climbed a mountain of mountains to reach the prize, the salt lick, life essence, wisdom.

Kushim tablet

Tower shape: kiln, brick oven, metal-smith forge, bread oven, beer vessel, head with topknot. Fermentation vessel, square flask with chimney to allow gas to escape. Cross-hatch indicates measures and numbers of ingredients. Beer alchemy.

5th head glyph: intoxication? ego, higher sight, the gem on top of the heads of certain nagas

Book of Jasher account of creation, flood, Babel. Chapter 9: three days walk around the base, one year to deliver brick to the top. Other accounts: Book of Enoch, Book of Jubilees

#TODO #169 hand, feather, wing flying |||| (Jyotirlinga) pillar

As above, so below. Banyan tree of Life. Apple with two bites. Brahma's Egg #303A

The ibex is an emblem of Enki, god of wisdom, the correlate of the Serpent of wisdom. The Bodhi leaf of enlightenment springs from 21 stone trianglewhich is 6 x 6 x 6. The ibex represents wisdom, the bull drinks the waters of life.

The leaf of the Bodhi tree, signifying enlightenment, Pipal tree is present. This Tree of Knowledge is superimposed on a moon crescent. The )) shape is also a mouth open for eating. Or perhaps the crescent is a worm, horns, or a serpent? There is a conjunction / and double tick sign " between the Pipal tree and the apple. There are three strokes, one for condemned Adam, Eve, and Serpent expelled from the garden, and destroying eye (or boss on reverse side of seal. The Tree of Knowledge was sealed-- face turned away. Choose fortune face down. wear as talisman around neck, clothes, wrist). Bow and arrow turned backwards towards holder.

And they said, Come let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. (Genesis 11:3)

Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth: and they ceased building the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth. (Genesis 11:7-9)

Indus was a brick-baking culture, and their writing had a black-out and has been a lost language for millenia. They had brick for stone implies that stonework was the prevailing building material in the prior era.

Flowing water symbols seen on right. Amrita shell indicates the river of life. Genesis story. "A river went out of Eden to water the garden" Gen 2:10. Gen 3:10: they knew they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. (Pipal fig leaf and crescent moon for night and private). Apple with two bites is the center piece. Get back to heaven Tower religions. Let us make bricks. (Should compare Indus brick dimensions with other regions to see if conserved) then towers knocked down, severed. Then flood. Matsya.))

GENESIS STORY IN CIRCULATION IN REGION: Ancient knowledge of Genesis also surprisingly in ancient Chinese (Bible Genesis story root of Chinese script, 2500 BC). The Indus script was contemporary with the legendary times of the Yellow Emperor and the Genesis legend. This seal may be the oldest surviving record of the Genesis story in the world, much older than Dead Sea Scrolls. The Tower of Babel may be depicted in an Indus glyph also.

Indications that the Indus Valley was the Genesis culture:

Brick-baking culture. Genesis 11:3: "Come let us make bricks"
Unity oriented (Advaita unicorn, Brahman bull, circle motifs of Priest King, egalitarian architecture)
East of Eden
Forehead marks in use
(Cain expected recognition of his forehead X so it must have been part of the ambient culture)
Book of Enoch said India was settled after Eden by the serpent
which is known as Naga of wisdom in India
Is plain of Sinar, Sindu, Indus Valley? '
According to Genesis 2:10-14, a single river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, where it divided into four distinct branches: the Pishon, Gihon, Hiddekel (Tigris), and Perat (Euphrates)
Indus may be the other valley referenced in Genesis. One watered by Tigris and Euphrates, other by
In biblical times, China is believed by many scholars to be referred to as the Land of Sinim (or Eretz Sinim),
Garden of Eden depicted (Chuanhudaro, Pashpati seal)
Culture ceased abruptly
Coincides with fall of Sumer?
Language lost, dispersion patterns

Bodhi tree is the tree of Knowledge and Banyan tree with aerial roots dropping down from heaven to Earth is tree of life? (iChinese standing knife radical 刂 Falling waters for Genesis rain and Ganga to Shiva's head. Knife cuts pause in existence. The End. Rest. Restart.). Markendaya survived Pralaya floating on a Banyan tree leaf, had transcendental chat with Vishnu while waiting for Universe to reboot.

Alternatively, this may be just a representation of the realm of Indra, which would be guarded by divine warriors, where the divine trees are said to reside. But given tower (linga, infinite tower of light) culture and Chinese precedent, worth considering the Genesis perspective.

The Priest King - Unity Culture

The priest king may have been the guru or teacher in an egalitarian culture. The Indus community lay-out lacked indications of social stratification. No palace. The garb of the Priest King employs unity motifs which are symmetrical: the circle of his head-band and arm-band: Unity and community in thought and action. Forehead ring is thought. Ring over the bi-ceps of the right arm is strenth and action. Left hand is covered, robed, more subtle and concealed affairs, mystery, spirituality. The robe has both circles and a symmetrical tri-folate clover-leaf design. The protruding lobes indicate inviduality, yet joined together in a circular unity.

Clover is a valuable crop. It is nutritious forage for livestock. It crowds out weeds, attracts pollinators and honey production. Bacteria in its roots fix atmospheric nitrogen, enhancing soil fertility. (Natural alchemy) Kusha grass

Immortality sign: upright fish - rejuvenation - swimming upstream like salmon returning to spawn. Red wine polyphenols. Piceid (often misspelled peceid) is a natural stilbenoid glucoside, recognized as a major antioxidant derivative of resveratrol found in grape juices, Japanese knotweed, and red wine. It serves as a precursor to resveratrol and is used in research for its potential health benefits, including cardiovascular protection and antioxidant activity. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. Unity pyramid glyph with central shaft connecting all layers. Demons are early colonizers of primordial Chaos, bold, passionate, determined, brave -- foundation of pyramid. Just like stomach digestion first life. Then embody cerebral functions later. Many functions and diverse cells, one body. Up-swimming fish lead the way to spiritual growth, avatars, teachers. Inner yearning, feeling like world not their home drives them to explore and reach beyond normal habitation zones. 2026-5-4

Harappan priest king, c2000 B.C.
Tri-folate shape represents Three-in-One Trimurti.
Circle represents Oneness, wholeness
Third eye and three leaf bilva leaves honor Shiva.

green background, red trefoils original color. Matching bangles found. Kenoyer
Puranic orator, guru, sage
Dattatreya Trimurti incarnation

Prime Minister Modi

Phil Collins. You'll be in my heart

Robe motif: circle implies balance, symmetry, refinement, unity, infinity. Three-lobe clover shape may represent three faces of the Trimurti, triple, yet one. Spotted cat usually denotes chthonic priests, underworld involvement, his face is serene, yet somber.

Vertical crack through left eye symbolic. Single eye of wisdom motif.
Straight nasal brow sculpture style divinity lineage

H. Sahota discussion * He exudes the intelligence and regal bearing needed to lead in a large area civilization such as the Indus society which demonstrated engineered streets, baths, and drainage, regulated weights. 2026-3-29

He may be a sage which teaches the Puranic stories orally from his prodigious memory.

The Indus Society glyphs indicate focus on Shiva which may explain egalatarian, non-materialism, lack of palaces. In ancient times, Satya Yuga, worship done in forests, river-sides, mountains etc, natural area, not large temples. Society may reflect these original forms.

Parpola lecture

important Dravidian roots: Min, vel.

Sayce identified Rosetta Stone from Susa for the Indus Script in 1924? A native (Indian) king added an (Indus) inscription to a cuneiform inscription? Harappa.com CCH 2024-4-21

Original report in French: Memoires de la Mission Archeologique de Perse. Tome XV1. 1921. V Scheil, director. leaf and Ibex Need volumes VI and XVII? lion-wrestling lion, bull, Maltese cross Ibex lick leaf on top of mountain Leaf on mountain is in Indus Script - as Mount SuMeru? Heaven realm?

We love Mesopotamia. Cuneiform beer proverb written on clay. Dug3 sweet*

Methodology: Cross-reference with contemporary civilizations: Sumer (and China)

Proto-cuneiform? Unknown source

		P Sanskrit: "pitha," seat, sacred site Hieroglyph Q3 𓊪 "p", stool, pedestal, seat


	Sumerian Naga, half-snake, half-human beings well-known in Hindu mythology

Map of Harappan sites. Mahadevan 1977

Conclusions DRAFT

1. SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE. Hindu mythology and lore has produced distinctive imagery such as Vishnu, a four-armed god armed with a discus; Brahma, a five-headed god, the god Shiva who holds a trident, and Bhringi, a three-legged man. These icons and more have been identified among the 417 glyphs of the Indus Script, proving that a graphical encoding is key to decipherment of the enigmatic script. Image access is important, the artist may employ an epigraphic pun or allusion to expand the meaning.

Hinduism has produced many absolutely epic legends with strikingly distinctive visual imagery and motifs: A trident-wielding destroyer god Shiva. A four-armed preserver deity, Vishnu. A five-headed god, Brahma. Bhringi, a three-legged man. Gods and demons in a tug-of-war with a mountain.

The Indus Script appears in short inscriptions. This indicates that it is a symbolic language which relies on the culture and prior knowledge of the reader. It might not be susceptible to literal specific decryption. It functions more like a mantra to be contemplated, a multi-layer candy to be savored, or a flower to bloom. It invites consideration from multiple angles and discussed with guru or seekers. It is primarily a right-brain symbolic (even potentially non-verbal, or universal language) language rather than a left-brain verbal language. It has been influenced by Sanskrit or has prototype elements but not the complexity.

HIEROGLYPHS, a sacred language for mriti remembered legends of the gods and divine personalities. Would expect it to record only sacred names and places, not for mundane economic activity (but in foreign regions the script might be adapted for secular purposes, the script has the capacity to represent words with the rebus principle). Thus inscriptions in foreign lands might provide clues to what individual icons meant, translated to a sound in the local language. This would be a script for representing sacred names, places, calendar of holy days, wisdom, and legends. It would not be for mundane or commercial use because like a mantra, the purpose would be to to keep the mind absorbed in the divine to gain moksha, release from the cycle of material bondage to the rebirth cycle. This could be an aid to ascend to higher realms by mental focus, not dwelling on material lusts, fears, and resentments. Wandering sages gave discourses, perhaps the seals were tokens that people or students could take home as a personal library, as the period of complete reliance on memorization was transitioning to more written records. (If used for commercial purposes and brands, like Churning of Ocean of Milk butter brand, Apsara perfume, and Gandarva wine, it would be a degradation, corruption but possible outside the origination zone). On the other hand, assigning priest blessed aspirational names to people and endeavors might be uplifting. Sacred names are usually closely held however (Such as secret name of Ra which Isis obtained) because they are thought to convey mystical power. It would actually be beautiful if school children revived this language, studied it, and composed poems with it which they would explain with contemplation and ingenuity and personal experience. There is ample material for new emojis for the digital age: #48 hunched skeleton in dispair for depression and angst, #16 for working hard turning mountains and doing the impossible, #244 gaping tiger mouth and #176 endless sign for talking too much.

Ancient Purana authors demonstrated that they appreciated wit and humor and the spicy drama of life.

GRAMMAR: Simple grammar: #99 AND/PLURAL; #97 SINGLE / NOT / OUT OF. The language was decoded with reference to Egyptian hieroglyphs (pr house and mr hoe) and Chinese symbols (knife and right hand radical). " VERB, repeater, intensifier #99. #93, #94 Danda stick shloka repeat marks. Associated with Damaru drum repeated rhythms of Time created by Shiva.

2. PURANIC LEGEND KEY. Legends from the Puranas are the key to decoding the script. Some icons are very specific, distinct and unmistakable such as gods and demons pulling either side of a mountain in the Churning of the Ocean of Milk, or a three-legged man in the Ardhanarishwara legend. There is a default reading direction indicated by the orientation of non-symmetrical characters as they appear with high quality authority seals with animals or deities.

Aquarius - ruled by Uranus, the coming golden ages of Aquarius and Capricorn. (Lord suffered decapitation / castration / broken horn (Ganesh) theme. Osiris, Shiva, Mandara, Brahma). Capricorn - fish goat, wisdom god, bearded motif (sphinx), mountain climber - ruled by Shani Saturn.

#245 18 Puranas + sage and walking stick = sage who teaches Puranas and travels. Sage Narada. School, ashram, arena. Disciples gather. Tell us the Puranas. Please recite!

DIAGNOSTIC GLYPHS: Churning #16, Trishul #162: Shiva 8, #48 Sati 6, Churning 7, Fifth-Head 7 Dead bird: Fifth-head 9, Churning 7. #180 Shiva hair: Churning 8. Shiva 5. #198 Brahma head: Fifth-head 8 #130: Peak and valley. Fifth-head: 9, Churning: 8. #133 /\/\ #150 X Closed X vs open X Pralaya, flood, core water Absu. #372: Trimurti. Brahma lotus born. Shiva 3rd eye in pillar. Vishnu upholder.

ADVANCED UNITY TEACHINGS: Modes of unified duality. Differentiated expansions of the One. Don't be fooled by manifold appearance, all is one. Vesica piscis. Resonance " || =V=. Nesting. Entanglement. Co-trapped Diatomic elements confined by net. Cooper pairs of superconductivity. Consciousness as an entangled harmonic loop state of matter. Mirror || Vesica () Cross X. Marriage. Team right hand radicals connected by knot. Pasha, noose. Expansion like umbrella or cobra hood from single axis revealing parallel existences. Convergence V Alignment ||. Pashpati demonstrates meditative prowess by splitting grass (the one thing hard and sharp enough to split anything else in the universe) with his mind to reveal a primordial loop or twin spark. Shiva emerges from pillar, Vishnu Narasimha emerges from pillar demonstrating omnipresence. Threaded single eye them. Shukracarya in the teapot. Let thine eye be single. One eye Odin. Linga. Eye of consciousness which threads through all worlds like a finger wears a stack of rings. Bull: the great work of alchemy within duality. Unicorn: The singular, perfected result. COSMIC AXIS allegory: Hunter Shiva and Arjuna both shot a boar, one through mouth, and Shiva though the opposite pole. Aperature *, also heaven and star. Bullseye through the center. I see only the eye, said the archery student whose focused concentration on the target animal was perfect. Would have split each other's arrows V motif. Shukracarya thru eye, hiding in teapot spout of Bali. AXIS UNITY Ardhanarishwara male female. PN pan all. Standard / unicorn manger: The life-preserving ark. Boat water vessel + sail air catcher + unicorn directional guidance 2026-4-8-- cosmic axis reflections: staff, fingers etc HIEROS GAMOS sacred marriage. UNITY: Rose bud #269 and thorn #402, one plant. (Medicinal properties of roses mentioned in Rig Veda) Priest king robe = trifolate design - three lobes, still one circular path. " target=top>Ishta Ishtar, beloved and sacrificed. Babel language family split Ish IX: I one, pillar, top to bottom connection, bridge. X disperse, shatter, radiate. Sacrificed SCRF - CR core heart = SRFC surface, suffer SFR. Left black skin, white eye, right white face black eye, spots. owl man, Artemis far moon. Two face moon, back side thick, near side hot with radioactives which enabled mares. Integrity.

THEMES OF THE INDUS SCRIPT: Nature of Shiva. Unity and balance. Enlightenment. Sacrifice. Alchemy. Stars. Immortality. Time. Good and evil. Puranic legends.

NATURE OF SHIVA: Name: Pashupati. Glyph #40. Ankle cuff man. Pashu noose pad foot. Pashupat bow and arrow weapon #307. Min Ishwara #1. NAMES OF SHIVA. Rudra, howler, equates with Pan, god of nature which circles back to Pashupati, god of nature. God of Garden of Eden. Chinese glyph for garden. 2026-5-21

CHEMISTRY. Oxidation of mushroom turns neck blue. (Shiva Samudra Manthan). Substances: sharp and sacred kusha grass, mushrooms, nectar, alchemy of the body. Immortality formula yet sanjeevani mantra alone is also sufficient. Apothecarial paraphrenalia, vessels, condensation coils, spoons, pestle etc. Kartikeya 6 nurse-mothers. Some node or junction with 6 inputs. * entanglement

SPACE AND DEEP TIME. Rings of Rama multiverse.

Earliest use of zero Glyph #0 identified by Celeste Horner?

INFORMATION SCIENCE, SEMIOTICS, CRYPTOGRAPHY IMPLICATIONS (Multiplexes hidden messages). Glyphs suggestive, yet ambiguous to offer structure and flexibility. Not susceptible to brute force decryption approach from outside, need to know cultural background, ideas, goals and actions behind code source. Non-specific no 1:1 I/O map. Individual interpretation. Art, insight and philosophy influence. Right brain language, meta-verbal. Petroglyphs writing system communicates mood, relationship, reverence, maps should be recognized as writing for conveying information, schematic, maps or a frame of mind. neural approach for network of microtraits. MASSIVELY POLYVALENT ABSTRACT TOKENS. Yajna Devam decryption: Seeded with #342 = A. Output poetic utterances. Run decription again in a different key, focusing on corpus of holy place names and sacred names (gods have 108, 1000 names to keep track of), starting with different seed. #391 wheel = A / loka, chakra, An Umbrella = T (Rune). Indus Script BINARY: Vishnu 1 (uphold #347), Shiva 0 (negation, AWAY #342). Legends are information, a code conveyed with vivid imagery and emotional charge in order to be memorable for long periods. Employing fiction, they communicate something true. Tiger skin = reflection, symmetry, as above, so below. Spotted cat xo field flux. Tiger skin = loom. Weaving = computation. \ || divide repeat. ^ return to top. basket result. Net collect. \ split off thread || keep thread.

Quadrilateral communication (Brahma 4-faced, 2-D). Tetrahedron 3-D 4 face. Pentalateral (original). Hexalateral (cubic aether primordial). Square the circle and triangle. (()) overlapping wave function 5 states of matter: solid earth, liquid water, air wind, fire plasma, aether quantum entangled. (#245: Field / gate / salt-carrier matrix / linga / star chart / plots of land / realm / fishing net / matrix / lattice / alpha omega setting chart / astrological chart navagraha). Communication aspects: visual theme, literal text, cosmology/stars, alchemical process. PRISMS are the physical embodiment of the multi-lateral message, showing the three gods are ONE.

Shannon: solitary unique solution to sequential streaming communication. Caveat to Cryptography: Esoteric communications are polysemantic. Harmonic. Allusional. Metaphoric. Everything means something else. Multiple pathways through the message. Harmonic indicates step. 123 240 150 all= 6. How will conventional decryption deal with Egyptian semantic complements? * ♠

TAMIL. Holds ancient keys. Needs more study, english interlinear availability. | Speculation: Babel ground zero realm - convolution revolved. Roots. MN, VL. Meta: TA land ML mel sweet. TA tongue ML sweet. T top M middle L lower leg. Same root as GUATEMALA. TA great Tower. TM complete TA land. AM people. IL stars MILlion stars. GUATEMALA. Guo country. TA earth. MA mother, mountains. LA land. TA Earth. The Sumerian word mul (cuneiform: 𒀯) translates to "star," "constellation," or "planet." TAMIL NADU. Na nativity born. DU Dieu, god, deity.

KANNADA. man, god, lord, fish, sun, moon, foot, hand, food, eat, tree, mountain, high, low, light, dark, day, night, big, small

WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT THE CULTURE? Unity - Shiva - nature oriented. Contemplative. Hieroglyphs for spiritual reflection not commerce -- (glyph only, no divine animal seals may have different purpose)

REDUNDANT GLYPHS. 98 and 100. NEED TO ADD GLYPH #0 meaning nothingness, void. Legends give insight to consolidate minor epigraphic variations. Need 268A conch shell for Amrita. #268 is two eyes looking for end of Jyotirlinga. Upside-down bird = squirrel descending head first, Messenger, Vetala wisdom seeker like Odin, hanging upside down in a tree to obtain wisdom.

3. FUTURE: Decode short names of gods, sages, temples, pilgrimmage sites based on new decryption seeds based on the key of god Shiva.The formulation of the glyphs does suggest words are suggested, although the mythological theme is the first layer of interpretation.

RIGHT-BRAIN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS. This begins the era to STUDY AND EXPLORE ANCIENT GRAPHIC LITERATURE (rich with clever metaphors and symbolism) new and ancient genre. (This includes what are called cave paintings! This is writing marks which influence mind, but meta-verbal) Left-brain thinking has been completely dominant in text and communication, time to explore right-brain modes of expression. Graphics, pattern, symbols, dreams etc.

DRAVIDIAN approach to decipherment. Important roots identified by Parpola. p275- 277. Min (fish, star). Vel (white, bright, p283) Min. * * (Vel: wheel: the (*) star glyph, light, star, wheel) (Mn Menes, Manu: One Mono)

CROSS-CULTURE: Shiva = Amun? = Pan? Harappan. Hara=Shiva. Hari=Vishnu. Pan = god of all creatures, has horrible roar which causes panic ... connects to Shiva Rudra with great roar or cry. Lakshmi from ocean is like Aphodite from Ocean. Pashupati. 𓉟 08 hieroglyph temple / house / mansion has bread loaf and pillar may be Shiva linga. Wash defeated by Narmer (same root Narayan) may be predynastic followers of Oesho commemorated on Bactrican Kushana coins. India answers questions: what is noose held by Egyptian dead? Pasha. What are upright snakes in Egyptian underworld? Nagas. Egyptian crown with many sundisks could be one Shesha Ananta upholding the world. Cackler? Brahma born from egg. Brahma like Khonsu born from lotus.Shiva Min Amun ithyphallic. Same father religion as Gobekli? Uranus to Kronos Golden Age Satya Yuga. Saturn = Shani Dev.

Egyptian hieroglyphs were a key reference for the reading direction for the Indus Script, towards the face of the presiding deity. The house and plough hieroglyphs were used to interpret the Indus Script. The Chinese right hand and knife radicals gave insight. Sumerian dingir god sign resonated with the chakra Indus sign.

Adapa one of 7 fish sages. Sumerian Sanskrit link? Adapa = Adi apa, first water. He was tricked into refusing the water of life. Adi pa = first father, a patriarch of mankind. His legend explains why humans are mortal.

Linear Elamite

PROOF: Observation of link between Indus glyphs and Hindu mythology led to hypothesis that Indus script glyphs are icons of Hindu Myths. This led to prediction that more visual links between the two could be found. Many corroborating instances. Glyphs interpreted and cross-indexed to multiple contexts as proof. Implemented as program for automated evaluation of any inscriptions.

FUTURE: Mystery and opportunity for disconvery remains. The script invites study of the huge wealth of wisdom Puranas and expressing the fruits of contemplation, insights as a string of glyphs which could be shared like a poem.

Dorian Taddei 2026-4-22 correspondence * *

Glacial maximum, 12,000 B.C.

HIGH SCIENCE, DEEP TIME, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND FUTURISM. There is intriguing correspondence between Puranic legends and the Kalpa cycle and the billion year scale deep history of Earth.

Early earth. Puranas described times before it had ever rained (Hadean Eon, before atmosphere condensed), and once when it was completely underwater (Archaeon Era, Carnian Pluvial Event).
Birth of the Moon *. Excess energy of sun reduced. 15/16 used to make weapons of the gods.
Pole Star Vega and Canopus *
Pre-life. The appearance of life took a while. Brahma got frustrated with his failure to create it and cried, creating god Rudra/Shiva and died, but was revived.
Pole Star Table
Druvah becomes pole star. Vishnu Purana [91]
Agastya becomes south pole star (Age of Leo - Vega and Canopus). Sent south to balance the world when all went north to Himalayas for Shiva and Parvati wedding. Skanda Purana (Book II: Venkatacala Mahatmya) and the Tirumantiram (Verse 337).
Yajnadevam. Phalguni summer solstice 3600 B.C. Gopata Brahmana and Shatapata Brahmana records. Surya Siddhanta - can see north pole star and south pole star from equator 2300 B.C. (Gemini calculated Age of Leo. Pole Star Chart) DEEP TIME EVIDENCE IN STARS. South pole migration animation, future, through constellation of Carina.
(Rudra, the roarer is Pan the crier. Pashupati Shiva, lord of beasts is Pan, lord of nature. Hanuman, ape kingdom god. Shiva is the god of nature, whose worship goes back to the Ice Age. (See major catastrophic punctuations of life on Earth). Degumbara Shiva is Egyptian Min, fertility god. Sphinx is Naga and lion riding Durga, Ishtar, Queen of Night. Notch is jar of Amrita.
Satya Yuga. Island India. Long and slow. No weather. Steady-state climate. Sages took millions and tens of thousands of years to accomplish their spiritual practices. (it took Brahma a long frustrating time to succeed), migration of the Indian continent (long slow days when sages meditated for tens of thousands of years,
Early beings before sexual reproduction, drinking sap of earth, no trees or flowers yet),
Shiva, Pashupati. God of stone age, lord of animals. Shown with mammoth with top knot head and sloped back. Small man for scale.
CONTINENTS CRASH. Volcanoes erupt, storms rage. Puranas describe eras where it seems like the demon Asuras have taken over all three worlds. climatic shifts, Droughts, fires, rivers drying, forests burning, pole star shifts (Brahama swan Cygnus - mild featureless climate;
Ancient lost rivers described
Age of Indra, Storm God. Continents crash make mountains and stormy weather. Upon fall of Brahma and drying of Saraswati, Indra lord of storms takes prominence.
Age of Civilization. King Prithu takes bow and levels mountains to create plains for agriculture. Yajna culture, sacrifices. Demigods, demons, and heros era. Next cycle rituals, Vishnu and kings. End sinking of Dwarka, floods end of Pleistocene. Deity symbol is fish because flood begins current cycle and Manu. Structure of universe: Trimurti: Shiva neutron transformer, Vishnu proton preserver, Brahma electron chemistry creator.
Age of Man, post-gods. Secular, age of Kali. Shiva is prime god, expected take world through next Kali Yuga destruction / world theatre stage renovation to next Satya Yuga golden age. (Saturn Kronos / Uranus / Aquarian age of enlightenment / Golden Age)
Draco pole star - THUBAN 4k - 1900 B. C. Pyramid building age. Thuban Thebes
Churning of the Ocean of Milk: Serpent = Draco constellation (ancient pole star) (Era of Nagas, Egypt, India, Meso-America, Native American water serpent, dragons China up until medieval Europe). Gods (Ursa Major) Demons (Ursa Minor) Shukracharya Venus. Brahispati Jupiter. Milky Ocean Milky Way. Praveen Mohan. Also Ophiuchus at galactic center, serpent wrestler
SARASWATI RIVER DRIED UP, GANGES BECAME PRIMARY RIVER. *. Matches first intermediate period of Egypt. Famine period. Nomarchs became more powerful. Wealth distribution.

Asko Parpola

Hindu mythology offers vivid ways to envision high science in deep time and physics. 6 stroke quarks Trimurti and female counterparts, up/ down spins. Unity = bound duality " || markers in script. Complex unities explored: Mirror, Union male female Shiva, Union Trimurti Dattatreya, antagonistic multi-actor theatre etc with animal archetypes of the psyche as per Jung. Island India & continents

The Indus Script is a visual gateway to a huge, deep, and ancient well of wisdom. It has been an enigma, dormant for centuries. It invites us to study the Puranas and experience to pilgrimmage trail of sacred places. With the significance of the symbols illuminated by ancient sacred stories, the language can revive with new life in a new time. It is a language which communicates both within and beyond language.

Writing needed and developed by mercantile and artisan class. Brahmin class relied on full-time training and skilled memorization for classics and wisdom too sacred and potent to be uttered or written. (Such as sanjeevani mantra of resurrection and life, memorized but forgotten due to scorned woman's curse upon son of Indra). Merchants needed writing for business. They may have developed their own wisdom schools because they were prohibited from other sacred learning by caste rules. However, householders were supposed to listen to the Puranas and study, gain spiritual merit, blessing, propitiousness, fortune, prosperity, health etc.

INGENUITY AND VERSATILITY of pictographic script. The Indus Script can multiplex two or even more messages onto the same set of glyphs. #402 can be interpreted as a convex or concave shape, the protruding tusk of Vishnu's boar avatar which raised the Earth from the bottom of the ocean, or the throat of Shiva as he swallows poison to save the world. M-314 is simultaneously a wedding celebration and an epic scene of gods and demons churning a mountain in the sea. There are layers, nuances, riddles, and metaphors to contemplate. This is a new, yet ancient type of literature for the world to appreciate.

VOTIVE SEALS rather than commercial. Yajnadevam 2026-5-25

ENDURING LEGACY, recorded culture effectively over thousands of years, timeless, still relevant, mental exercise like chess to decipher and contemplate, uncover hidden concepts with graphical analysis, applicable to current culture, ripe for revival. Revolutionize idea of communication, potential of pictographic writing. Marks made which affect the mind-state of an independent observer. End tyranny of verbosity as the standard of writing, communication, recognize other modes, right-brain visual and connection modes of thinking, pictographs, knots, textile patterns, basket weave, etc. NEW YET ANCIENT TYPE OF GRAPHIC LITERATURE. QUADRILATERAL COMMUNICATION - contemplate, unpack the meaning of the seal, until seen from 4 perspectives. Puzzle book.

Symbols of Shiva in the Indus Script

Temple girl Primordial sound expanding from damaru. Left foot raised, moksha, Tandava dance of creation and destruction. Chakra = ring of fire, 1 foot balance

SYMBOLS OF SHIVA
Wheel of fire	Foot Tandava dance	Drum damaru (#214)	Moon crescent	SHIVA tilak forehead mark	Trishul trident (#162)

Many occurrences Trishul and Shiva signs together

Shiva = Rudra, Mahadev, Min, Hara, Ishwara. VS HR harrow plow, Amrit, Soma, Chandra, )), Oscuri )(.
Vishnu. Vasudev indwelling in Vessel of Mind. Parusha all pervading.

Shiva meditates seated on a tiger skin. His icons are represented in the Indus Script. His hour-glass shaped damaru drum is #214, and his trishul trident appears in characters #162-#165 and #365-#372. The tiger, on which he sits is an animal featured on numerous seals. Shiva carries a horn (glyph #37) symbol of his bull mount Nandi, of his throat which consumed poison, and a drinking horn of blessing and plenty. [2] Samudra Manthan: Churning of the Ocean of Milk, and the treasures which emerged. Patala. Sanskrit foot pada. *

Shiva V tilak symbol is same as cobra, symbol of enlightenment. Sacrum bone, rising, twisted (Heh symbol) kundalini serpents. Caduceus with Wings, Mercury with wings on temples balances heavy weight, strong shoulder water bearer symbol. Shiva Shakti :: Shu Tefnut, Void Potentiality. Horizontal lines are planes of experience / reality which are penetrated by eye, soul, consciousness of Shiva. =V= VF. Two wings on temples, enlightenment. Two headed dragon - origin and end, alpha and omega. Oroborus. Eternity. ≡V≡
*

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Indus glyphs for TIME and head - thinking, deciding etc.


Head topknot consciousness (*)	Figure 8 infinite mala-beads ladder escape cycle

Hindu Legends

[1] CHURNING of the Ocean of Milk. [5] Shiva swallows poison
[2] MATSYA, fish avatar of Vishnu saves Manu from Flood
Narasimha. Omnipresence. Lion-Man bursts from pillar. V X
[3] LUBDHAKA and the tiger
[4] JYOTIRLINGA: How Brahma lost his FIFTH HEAD
FIG GODDESS seal
[5] ARDHANARISHWARA: Half female form of Shiva
[6] Shiva PASHUPATI, lord of animals
Symbols of the gods, Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma
[7] Curse of the KUMARAS
[8] SHIVA NATARAJA
The battle for TARA Taramaka war. Shiva vs. Chandra Moon *
[2.1] Firey death of SATI *
[11] 7 SAGES
GARDEN OF EDEN. Genesis gnosis reference
VRISHRABA avatar. Sequel to CHURNING.
VETALA, SHANI in Pipal * *
UNICORN and fantastic beasts
NARADA palm squirrel
MADHU
MARKANDAYA Banyon leaf
TARA
SHANI DEV
* Minoan Mycenaean seals
SUPERNATURAL BEINGS - Horned Asura demon with bow, voluptuous goddess with harvest basket crown, vata devata nature spirits with plants sprouting from heads, residing in stone

List and concordance of 417 Indus Script signs. Mahadevan (1977)

Shiva 19 avatars. Moon metonic cycle period 19 years. Lord of animals, Pashupati = Pipalada, raised by forest and animals after parents died. Father Dadichi sacrificed self to give spine to make Vajra thunderbolt weapon. 2026-2-3

[2] 16 [48] [53] 59 245 81 123 [176] O Endless 211 214 [] [342] [391]
12 47 [50] 54 Outflow 55 Swallowing. Face of Glory. [62] 65 [85] 99 @ 124@ 127 @ 149 [*] [162] 169 171 173 175 . [178] [180] (194)* [197] [198] [199] [225] * 232 252 254 [267] [293] [319]* (341)@ [347] [380] Halahala [389] [402]

[1] * Manu in Purana. Manu and Minnow (Min Dravidian fish god star) [39] [130] Vishnu, Brahma seek bottom and top of Jyotirlinga || (=) [382 teeth in 3rd eye, EEE endless universe in Vishnu mouth 383] [409] Damaru drum with repeat, rhythm marks, or nirguna spot for cessation, pralaya.

55 Swallowing. Face of Glory. (54 outflow) Many swallowing legends Cronos-Zeus, Shiva, Moses serpent. By anchoring to the Prokaryote, you aren't just looking at biology; you’re looking at the first time the Universe created a "Inside" vs. an "Outside." . Gemini conversation. X transgress, cross the line, eat the apple. Strike. Transform. Change, translate, cross mate, multiply. Action. Change. + Static like tree, rooted state.

Hieroglyph analogues 4 pillars of heaven, serekh. Pr, Hwt, nwt (x) town * D||| Dtr

Themes: BALANCE (Churning, Kumaras), TRUTH / EGO CONTROL (Brahma's 5th head), OMNIPRESENCE (Narasimha), SHIVA GREATNESS (Ganga descent, Swallowing Poison), SACRIFICE (Sati, Dadichi Bones, Lotus - Vishnu, Lakshmi), DISMEMBERMENT and ONENESS (Head, Tirthas, Narasimha, linga)

Sacred grass 169, 290, 291 x. Can be used for sacred thread ceremony in addition to cotton. Arrogant gods humbled after drinking
Samudra Manthan nectar because they could not cut it when challenged by Shiva.
Used to sever the egotistical 5th head of Brahma after he lied about finding the top of the infinite Jyotirlinga.
171 Ocean trident of Neptune. Genesis 5th day ocean creatures made.
5-point trident related to Churning of Ocean of Milk narratives. * holds trimurti. Hair of Kurma turtle from Churning. Clone Lakshmi Sita son ice lingam cave
numbered | glyph | Interpretation | Mantra | Sign list & Concordance | Frequency /M77 | Danda | Conclusions | References

Harappa.com sign table | Chinese 417 radical list in stroke count order

Sanskrit dictionary | Bhagavadgita Vedabase

The Priest King

Harappan priest king, c2000 B.C.
Tri-folate shape represents Three-in-One Trimurti.
Circle represents Oneness, wholeness
Third eye and three leaf bilva leaves honor Shiva.
Straight nasal brow style divinity lineage
Puranic orator, guru, sage
Dattatreya Trimurti incarnation

Vertical crack through left eye symbolic. Single eye of wisdom motif.

He may be a sage which teaches the Puranic stories orally from his prodigious memory.

Arm band * Bold geometric pattern, Mediterranean?

Indus Script deciphered with Hindu Mythology
MATSYA: UNICORN FISH AVATAR OF VISHNU

Indus glyph #62

MATSYA:
unicorn horn
fish avatar
of god Vishnu
saves Manu
and the
7 sages
from the flood.

THE HINDU SAGA
Matsya legend video

The horn also represents Vishnu's boar avatar, in which he lifted the whole Earth on his tusks, rescuing it after a demon buried it in the muddy bottom of the Cosmic Ocean.

RIGHTEOUS KING MANU RESCUED A TINY FISH he saw during his sacred ritual bath at the river. It begged him to rescue it from the hungry larger fish in the river. King Manu put the fish in a pot and took it to his palace. By the next day, the fish had outgrown the pot, so the king placed it in a pond. The following day, the fish had grown so large, that the king commanded his servants to move the fish to a lake. By the next day, the fish had outgrown the lake, and was transferred to the ocean. The king realized that this was no ordinary fish, and asked for the meaning of the miraculous manifestation. The fish revealed that it was Matsya, an incarnation of the god Vishnu, preserver of the universe. It three days time, it warned, the land would be ravaged by a devastating flood. The king was instructed to gather the 7 sages, herbs, and animals, and board a boat that would be provided. At the appointed time, a boat, towed by Matsya the fish arrived. Vasuki, king of Naga serpents, acted as the towing rope connecting the boat to the horn of Matsya. During the flood, Matsya instructed Manu and the seven sages in the Vedas. With this new wisdom, Manu and the seven sages reestablished civilization.

Glyphs of the gods: the Fish in the Indus Script

Interpretation of the fish glyphs of the Indus Script as god names

~~Shiva~~ 4-arm
Vishnu

Shiva
3rd eye

goddess
Lakshmi
pours
BLESSINGS

MOTHER GODDESS
SHAKTI
Tara
Lakshmi

Brahma navel lotus
Shiva 3rd eye
Vishnu upholder

VISHNU
symbol

PRESER-
VER

SHIVA
symbol

ANNI-
HILATOR

Shiva
linga

3 GOD-
DESSES
Tridevi
roof crown

3 GODS
Trimurti
Shiva
Vishnu
Brahma

Indus god symbols: Glyph #59 is the generic symbol for a god. Glyph #62 is the 1st avatar of god Vishnu is a giant fish with a unicorn horn which pulled the ark which saved Manu from the Flood. Glyph #64 refers to the bird, or swan avatar or vehicle of Brahma. Glyph #65 indicates goddess Parvati, wife of Shiva. Parvat means mountain, and this glyph is capped with a mountain peak. Symbols for wife in antiquity often include a roof for the home. Glyph 72: fish glyph of Lakshmi, goddess of fortune, pouring wealth and blessing. Glyph 70: the destroying 3rd eye of Shiva. (Celeste Claire Horner, 2024).

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Mesopotamian fish deities Oannes and Dagon

Indus glyph #59

upright fish god

UPRIGHT FISH: With his fish avatar Matsya, god Vishnu rescues the 4 Vedas (embodied as 4 young people) from the sea-demon, and restores them to the 4-headed god Brahma.

Kenoyer lecture Amrita / immortality / Lakshmi and 4-arm Vishnu; Death / protection shield / Sati skeleton and Shiva. Full-spectrum.

Compare to Oannes, Sumerian fish-man god who taught mankind the arts of civilization: the knowledge of letter, sciences and all kinds of techniques. He also taught them how to found cities, build temples, create laws, and measure plots of land. He revealed to them how to work the land and gather fruits. Then he leaped back into the sea and swam away. (Tamil: wine = matu, scribe, eluttar, writing,

writing, elutuvatu; fish min; ) Eridu 5400 BC, Mammoths still lived in Wrangel Island Original Arrival/Come First Dieu god, has Brahmanic bun on head

Paradu fish which ensured the plans of heaven and earth | Berossos: fish man Oannes. Egyptian king Narmer also catfish. Teacher of agriculture with plow. Apkallu. Scorpion macehead with plow.
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Holy Inanna recieved gifts from father Enki. Holy Inanna received Gifts of Inanna: Holy Inanna received the craft of the carpenter, the coppersmith, the craft of the scribe, the craft of the smith, the craft of the leather-worker, the craft of the builder, the craft of the reed-worker. Holy Inanna received wisdom, the shepherd's hut, the knowledge to pile up glowing charcoals, the sheepfold. Enki taught Inanna about family, the laws of inheritance, good judgement. But he also gave darker gifts: Holy Inanna received deceipt and the rebel lands. Holy Inanna received heroism, power, and wickedness, the plundering of cities and the making of lamentations. (Fall of Civilizations 8, Sumer. 44:00, YT) Dashavatara

Answer to the mystery -- this Unicorn fish swallowed missing part of Osiris. Divine seed code. Ganesh broken tusk. Uranus etc - Aphrodite emerges from sea / Apsaras Lakshmi. Vasuki coils around Shiva neck, Mount Mandara, Matsya horn. Mythological parallelism

VISHNU VOTIVES. The fish is a generic sign for a god in the Indus Script. It especially applies to Vishnu, who has Matsya, a fish as his first avatar. Motifs are added to indicate specific gods: 4 arms for Vishnu. Here, 4 strokes indicates the 4 arms of Vishnu. The V tilak mark also indicates a deity / deva. Details signify individual gods: Shiva's tilak has 2 or 3 horizonal bars, the one for Vishnu has world upholding hands. Miniature tablets from Harappa (lower mature layers) H-302, 3452. Ref: Parpola (1994) p194, Vats (1940) v2, 452B.

[347] Tilak forehead mark with world upholding hands identifying Vishnu

INDUS SCRIPT SYMBOLS FOR VISHNU THE UPHOLDER AND PRESERVER. Vishnu Indus glyphs: 347 upholder, Preserver. 348: Combination of upholder, and 10 avatar symbol. Ten point crown, 10-tine rake. 5 tine rake of Neptune represents the deep primordial ocean on which Vishnu reclines, floating on Shesha / Ananta. 351: Upholding hands of Vishnu, preserver and arm with lotus and discus, Sudarshan chakra. 355: Vishnu: two preserver hands upholding the world. 391: Star, heaven, Chakra, wheel. 352: Combination of Shiva style jar/tilaka 342 with ( 2/3 tripunda, one sacrificed; flames, horizontal bars, thorns, 8th notes rhythms, teeth swallowing cosmic poison) and Vishnu upholding hands. 353: Union of Shiva and Mohini Vishnu which produces a son of destiny. 354: Mohini and churn from the Ocean of Milk. 2026-2-3

Shiva's tilak has 3 bars showing he transcends the three planes of existence. The bar for the material plane is missing because of austere penance and renunciation, sacrifice. Tiger stripes, sits on tiger skin demonstrating mastery over passions, Linga sublimated for spiritual purpose. It is a two headed Naga / Dragon or One endless serpent emerging from an origin to go in two directions -- the beginning and end.

Glyphs of the gods: the Fish in the Indus Script

Interpretation of the fish glyphs of the Indus Script as god names

~~Shiva~~ 4-arm
Vishnu

Shiva
3rd eye

goddess
Lakshmi

Brahma navel lotus
Shiva 3rd eye
Vishnu upholder

VISHNU
symbol

PRESER-
VER

SHIVA
symbol

ANNI-
HILATOR

Shiva
linga

3 GOD-
DESSES
Tridevi
roof crown

3 GODS
Trimurti
Shiva
Vishnu
Brahma

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Mesopotamian fish deities Oannes and Dagon

Indus glyph #59

upright fish god

UPRIGHT FISH: With his fish avatar Matsya, god Vishnu rescues the 4 Vedas (embodied as 4 young people) from the sea-demon, and restores them to the 4-headed god Brahma.

PBS Nature. Patrick and the Whale: Sperm whales resting vertically

Why the fish? Represents immortal being from primordial waters of the Causal Ocean. Age of Pisces, duality. Vesica piscis sacred geometry. Constellation.

Four-Armed Form of Vishnu

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A fish-shaped tablet from Harappa illustrates the unity of Shiva and Vishnu. On one side, V Deva symbol indicates the god Vishnu, especially his first avatar, Matsya the fish. If an arc with a protruding horn or tusk appears (#62), this represent both the fish avatar, which had a tusk to pull the arc of Flood survivor Manu to safety, or the tusks of Vishnu's boar avatar which can dig into the underworld, and saved the World from being buried. Four strokes representing Vishnu's four arms. The eye of the fish evokes the golden sun and the bounty of Lakshmi. A circle and arc can represent also Vishnu's discus and lotus. On the reverse, an arrow indicating greatness and a linga. A fish deity sign indicates a deity. An arc in the places of the gills of the fish represents yogic breathing, Shiva's weapons such as a bow, and especially the crescent Moon which Shiva wears on his head. The eye alludes to Shiva's distinctive feature, a powerful third eye, the dot of pupil being the Void or deep well. The simple object embodies an elusive idea of the unity of two gods who are faces of One, Brahman. Reference: Parpola (1994), 194; Vats (1940), v2, plate 94, no 428.

The most common Sanskrit word for "fish" is Matsya (मत्स्य). Another frequently used term is Meena (मीन).

SHIVA: Mahadev: Up arrow, Maha, great. Fish, deva. Moon, boat which carries the Sun through the underworld, ensuring the rebirth and continuity of existence. Moon, the balance, the Lord of Time, the churn of the underworld via gravity.

Tilak; Flame. Water drop. Vessel of the divine V. Tuning fork, with interior strokes indicating vibration frequency. Wishbone, central for wings and flight

Indus glyph #72

GODDESS LAKSHMI:
goddess of fortune
pouring blessings.

Esp w roof crown.
Also: Vishnu and bowstring,
Mohini

List and concordance of 417 Indus Script signs. Mahadevan (1977)

Indus glyphs video
National Fund for Mohenjodaro (2017). Preview of Indus Script Font released on Mohenjodaro Conference 2017. {Meditative music video. Glyphs tumble into view}

INDUS SIGN INTERPRETATION

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List of 417 Indus Script signs with description by Celeste Horner CCH 2024

Hindu mythology legends in the Indus Script

Lubdhaka and the Tiger

Figure 1. This seal the Rosetta Stone of the Indus Script because the picture on it has been matched with meaning from the legend of Lubdhaka and the tiger about the Hindu holy night, MahaShivratri.

TIGER SCARE LEADS TO A NIGHT OF PRAYER. Chased through a forest by a wild tiger, the hunter Lubdhaka took refuge in a sacred Bilva (Bael) tree. He spent the night fasting, praying, and sprinkling holy Bilva (Bael) @ @ leaves on a sacred lingam stone below the tree. The Indus script danda stick repeat marks indicate that he continuously recited the mantras AUM Shiva Mahadev, "OM Shiva, great god," and "OM, nama Shivaya," I bow to the divine Shiva, while scattering holy leaves from his hand. [Reading the mantra]. As a result of accidentally fulfilling this ritual on the holiest night of the year, he pleased Shiva and earned a safe return home and glorious admission to paradise. This legend reflects ancient religious practice which still continues to be a living spiritual tradition the current day. Shiva devotees aspire to accomplish this ritual on MahaShivratri at least once in their lifetime: a day of fasting, and a night of wakeful meditation.

The tiger seal, created around 2000 B.C, demonstrates that the long history of MahaShivratri spans the thousands of years. MahaShivratri is still a living spiritual tradition. Hindu gurus still urge their followers to make the effort to stay awake the whole night of MahaShivratri (Sadhguru: [solar potter's wheel metaphor, 2021 ; [Sadhguru hosted the president of India for MahaShivratrirituals at Isha Yoga Center, 2023.) (@) to absorb the spiritual energy on this occasion, the anniversary of the divine marriage of Shiva and Parvati. Devotees annoint a Shiva lingam with flowers, Bael (Bilva) leaves, and milk. They meditate, pray, listen to sermons and stories, chant mantras, and celebrate with dance and music. Lubdhaka had a life-threatening wild tiger (a symbol of Shiva) as his incentive to stay awake all night and pray!

Almond shape in top left might also represent the Moon with craters, shining on the night of MahaShivratri, with four crescents representing phases of the Moon, and time The composition has a strong division on the diagonal, with the terrestrial tiger on one half, and the Moon, sacred tree, and Shiva (waning crescent moon on head) above. The tiger's head may represent a Shiva lingam. Shiva sits on tiger skin, so this is one of his emblems. All of the elements of the seal signify Shiva.

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(Om, nama Shiva Mahadevaya)
((OM)), I bow to Shiva, great god

									59
temple / Moon OM-kara	AND, dual reverberation	NOT out / of	bow / give Y "nama / Mn"	repeat Danda	SHIVA	Shiva linga	mouth "va"	DEVA god	Mahadev OM

Pictographic literature has numerous layers, nuances, and alternate pathways of parsing and interpretatation. Traversing symbols in various ways weaves additional detail into the message. A revolutionary method of communication accessible as picture-writing or text for the literate, the composition can be read as symbols or phonetically in one or more languages. Words are read toward the face of a living being. If there are multiple faces, additional bi-directional encryption may be encoded. Danda stick punctuation indicates repeated mantra and Bilva leaf offering to the Shiva lingam. The fat fish Mahadeva OM makes a lotus position meditation hand mudra with thumb and index together and three fingers extended. Rod, ra, repeat. MAHADEV Ra-TREE night. Tree branches XY As above, so Below branch patterns
.

Ingeniously, there are multiple pathways of interpretation for this pictographic composition. Read towards the face of 2 living beings, it can be divided in two: A repeated Shiva deva enclosed by danda sticks; repeating giving to the linga facing the tiger. Reverberating (#99) OM-kara, universal cross-roads (Jyotirlinga - endless pillar of light) and cosmic seed. Leaves suggested in multiple ways, leaf shape of #284, bits #97, #99, steam and leaf #402.

Legend identified by Project Shivoham and glyphs interpreted by Celeste Horner in February 2024.

Metalinguistics: LUBDHAKA. Lord of Heart, hand, head, and Soul. Lb heart, German leib. Libido. Linga. B heart. Origin point, pole, pillar. Heavenly column, holding up the sky. Ka X cross. BD / Bet house. LU lux light. B heart. Reverse: BL Ba'al, lord. Da give, donate, disseminate, do, hand. Provided offerings to the linga. Ka, Egyptian soul. Heka, Egyptian, lord, ruler. h? hq hand and shepherd's crook, lord.

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Reciting the legend of Lubdhaka during MahaShivratri is a tradition among Hindus of Bali.
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THE MAN, TREE, AND TIGER SEAL: THE ROSETTA STONE OF THE INDUS SCRIPT

* STARS ON THE NIGHT OF SHIVA *

Figure 2. A second variation of the man, tree, and tiger seal. Celeste Horner used the information that the Lubdhaka legend occurred at night of MahaShivratri to deduce that the water carrying man and dots in the sky were stars and the constellations of Aquarius (bringer of the rainy season) (or Ophiuchus, serpent wrestler, center of galaxy), the Pleiades (in Hindu mythology, the wives of the 7 sages), and Orion (which has the hourglass shape of Shiva's damaru drum which creates Time). Cross legs indicates marriage (yogic posture, penance?) (see Apsura seating position), as does cupped elbow (Egyptian). Tiger seals: Mahadevan 1977. Tiger graphic by C. Horner with Hotpot.ai. Harappa.com: Buddhist Stupa Lubhdaka himself is represented by the star Sirius in Hindu astronomy.

Shiva self worship. He is tree, cosmic axis, and linga. He is hunter Orion (damaru). He is the tiger, the skin he wears, the passion he has mastered. He is the stars in the sky, the water bearer. The scene is MahaShivratri, Shiva's wedding night.

Sirius in Hindu Astrology: Mrigavyadha In Hindu astronomy and astrology, Sirius is clearly identified and holds a position of immense mythological power. It is known as Mrigavyadha (the "Deer Hunter") or simply Lubdhaka (the "Hunter"). The Mythological Hunter: In the Puranic tradition, Sirius is the arrow or the hunter who shot Prajapati (Orion) when he took the form of a stag. This creates a direct celestial map: Sirius (Mrigavyadha) follows Orion (Mrigashirsha) across the sky. Connection to Shiva: Mrigavyadha is often considered a manifestation of Shiva (specifically in his fierce Rudra form).

How Brahma Lost His Fifth Head ^

Figure 6: Indus Script with glyphs for a Shiva lingam, the swan of Brahma, and multiple strokes for digging and flying action. CCH 2024-3-12.

The swan's head is bent back like it is looking down from the tall tower, has lost its head, is dead, or ashamed. The head looks like the Egyptian hieroglyph for crescent moon, an emblem of Shiva. The upside down Y look like the Eiffel tower. The lingam was an infinite tower.

RELATED INDUS SCRIPT GLYPHS:
Glyphs #2 (Shiva appears in pillar). Glyph #5 (Brahma head). Glyph 79 (Brahma bird avatar looking down). Glyph #83 (Brahma bird avatar with no head). Glyph #198 (5th head of Brahma, 5th block on top of stack of 4).

Shiva and the pillar of fire, Jyotirlinga

Indus Script deciphered with Hindu Mythology: glyph #2

The god Shiva emerges from the Jyotirlinga pillar of fire

Indus Script glyph #2.

JYOTIRLINGA PILLAR OF FIRE
HOW BRAHMA LOST HIS FIFTH HEAD.

A dispute arose between gods Brahma and Vishnu over who was the greatest. Suddenly, an enormous pillar of light and fire blazed up between them. They agreed that whoever could discover the end would be declared superior.

Brahma transformed into a swan and flew upwards to heaven. Vishnu, in the form of his boar avatar, dug down towards the netherworld. Both gods searched, but neither could find the end of the pillar. When they met again, Vishnu admitted truthfully that he failed to find the bottom. Brahma, however, lied and produced a flower that he said came from the top.

Just as Vishnu was about to bow down to Brahma, the god Shiva emerged from the pillar in a rage, and with a blade of grass, sliced off the 5th head of Brahma which had swollen his ego and caused him to lie. It was then apparent that Shiva was the supreme deity.

Shiva completes penance for cutting off Brahma's 5th head.

On another occasion, the devas, feeling strong after consuming the Amrita elixir of immortality, became overly arrogant. Shiva challenged them to battle him. He chose only a blade of grass as his weapon. The gods laughed, but were surprised when they all failed to defeat him, because the blade was infused with the power of Shiva's infinite linga, and their overbearing egos were humbled.

M-1: JYOTIRLINGA TEMPLE SITE. Inscription: AHIMSA (Do no harm) PARVAN (Sacred day)
A	HAMSA	PR	V	N
#397	#51	#267	#402	#97

A AJNA 3rd eye EYE in pillar Shiva appears from Jyotirlinga Up and down search for end of Jyotirlinga	HAMSA Brahma swan avatar Dead bird lies decapitated	PR House temple tirtha 𓉗	VA (व) VARAHA Vishnu boar avatar tusk dig, swaow herbiVORE	N negation something missing like apostrophe

AHIMSA (Do no harm) PARVAN (sacred day)

[i.e., mahā-parvan], particularly on those concerning the teacher [i.e., guru-parvan]”.

Day to take extra care, don't cause harm, don't tell lies like the Brahma bird, be truthful. Awareness day

Let thine eye be single. Big theme. Shukracarya became one-eyed trying to prevent dwarf Vamana from taking the kingdom of King Bali. Shrunk down and tried to block the spout of the sacred water pot spout to prevent an oath. He got pricked. Vishnu is said to have sacrified an eye to Shiva. Odin sacrifice an eye. Training for war - the best pupil said -- I only see the eye of the bird I am aiming for, demonstrating his focus.

The unicorn often symbolizes something missing or hidden. In this case, it is an absence of violence and lying. Let it be not present.

JYOTIRLINGA TEMPLE SITE

Seal M-920A

5 towers of Angkorwat Mount Meru, 5 heads, 5 elements

GLYPH #2: JYOTIRLINGA - GOD SHIVA EMERGES FROM A PILLAR OF FIRE

Indus Script glyph #2. @ HOW BRAHMA LOST HIS FIFTH HEAD. A dispute arose between gods Brahma and Vishnu over who was the greatest. Suddenly, an enormous pillar of light and fire blazed up between them. They agreed that whoever could discover the end would be declared superior. Brahma transformed into a swan (#63, #64) and flew upwards. Vishnu in the form of his boar avatar (glyph #62, also Matsya god fish with tusk) dug down towards the netherworld. Both gods searched, but neither could find the end of the pillar. When they met again, Vishnu admitted truthfully that he failed to find the bottom. Brahma, however, lied and produced a flower that he said came from the top. Just as Vishnu was about to bow to him, the god Shiva emerged from the pillar in a rage, and with a blade of grass, sliced off the 5th head of Brahma which had swollen his ego and caused him to lie (#79, headless bird #83, #198, #51, #52). After that, it is was apparent that Shiva was the supreme deity. Jyotirlinga (radiant linga) shrines (#267, #270-283) across India are honored as emanations of this first manifestation of Shiva as a cosmic pillar of light (#61).

Shiva Puranas, Chapter 7

Concordance entries for glyph #2: @ | @ ♣ | Glyph #2 info page

Unicorn seal: Reading towards the face: Eye, glyph #397 representing the vertical up and down search by Brahma and Vishnu for the end of the Shiva lingam of fire, Jyotirlinga. The eye represents the third eye of Shiva dwelling in the pillar. Dead bird glyph #51 represents Brahma swan avatar. Brahma is beheaded for lying. Jyotirlinga shrine, glyph #267. (Compare to Egyptian hieroglyph O5, temple. Sanctified altar square within a square.) Glyph #402 is the digging claw or hoof of the Vishnu boar avatar which attempts to find the bottom of the pillar. Short stroke: Give/yield, also negation, apostrophe, something missing -- there is no end of an infinite pillar. ***

8 Shiva element temples on 79 E Shiva Shakti video

//**// Amrita - sail boat - breath + water = arc of salvation. OM *) ॐ

Aftermath of Jyotirlinga

Shiva atones for Brahmahatya sin, chopping off Brahma's fifth head

FIG GODDESS SEAL

Fig goddess Indus seal. Harappa.com

Baby take me back! I have conquered my ego! Reconciliation with spirit. Shiva and Shakti. The wise wizard yogi sage shaman (who formerly sacrificed heart for knowledge and power), mage kneels before pure spirit. She is vibrant and powerful. Redemption. Sacred Marriage. Adoration.
Shiva representing universal self, attaining enlightenment and spiritual union. Conquered ego is severed head (Brahma's 5th head). Faithful companion Nandi, or redeemed Brahma is behind him, representing his strength and heart and purified passion. Seven figures surrounding are virtues, Shiva ganas, nature spirits (entourage of Nature goddess, power of all, Shakti), also Pleiades with whom Shiva is also intimately connected. Also may represent the seven sages. #228 two joined hands, #229 marriage, #220 divorce alientation toxic bite, #224 fire sacrifice? #70 Shiva, third eye fish. #328 Deva, god. #1 Man, divine man, ishwara lord, ishana, andro. Shiva, both god and man, perennial (re-emerging after Pralayas. Creation, Above max perfection (Icharus), Fall, Redemption, Reconciliation, marriage, next generation, Bequeath, Withdrawal, Rebirth), eternal. #242: compound. One half whole, one half is divided. A divided house. Medicine and poison joined in one substance. A temple. Halahala - Amrita, Poison - Immortality elixir combo. Metaphor for the cosmic condition. Poison must be processed, otherwise it nullifies the elixir, or makes it unavailable although it is constantly available.

Also: Scene of vana devatas, nature spirits of the world tree. They gave sprouts coming out of their heads showing their identity.

STAR MAP OF SHIVA AND BRAHMA'S FIFTH HEAD

Connection discovered to Perseus and the head of Medusa

The Fig Goddess Seal may be a star chart. (C. Horner 2026-2-2). The kneeling figure is Shiva, atoning for the sin of cutting off one of the 5 heads of the god Brahma, making him a 4-headed deity. This lying and egotistical 5th head tried to cheat to get the god Vishnu to worship him, by falsely claiming that he had won the challenge of finding the top of Shiva's endless Jyotirlinga pillar of light. Despite, Brahma's moral misdeed, for the sin of killing a Brahmin -- Brahmatya, Shiva had to wander for 12 years with the dead 5th head of Brahma awkwardly stuck to his palm until he bathed in a sacred river.

The scene shows a marriage at the end of a Hero's journey. In the universal hieros gamos, spiritual marriage, the redeemed and victorious soul, laying down the head of ego, with the strong bull of devotion behind him, kneeling to request marriage with his own exalted spirit. The top center of the seal shows two symbols of "tying the knot," or giving hands, symbolizing union and marriage. The seven figures at the bottom of the seal, the guests of the wedding, also perhaps representing 7 virtues of soul, witness the redemption and marriage and would correspond to the seven stars of the Pleiades.

Pashupata vrata penance where one wears tree bark and ash to please Shiva.

This story is reflected in the stars. The figure with a head is known in the west as Perseus, holding the head of Medusa, which he has slain. The head corresponds to Algol, the Devil Star. Above Perseus is Auriga, the charioteer, framed in a shape like the Fig Goddess. She may represent the Tree of Life. As Shiva overcomes the karma in his human form, he resumes his infinite divinity wedded to his divine complement, Shakti.

The Auriga constellation includes the star Capella, anciently called Amalthea, the Goat of the Horn of Plenty. (Charioteer also connects to Krishna, an incarnation of Vishnu, who has the most enchanting female form in the universe, Mohini. Vishnu is also married to Lakshmi, goddess of fortune, who is resonant here also. An allusion to the complete trinity of Hindu gods is present).

The Taurus constellation would be represented by bull Nandi, Shiva's faithful companion. The constellation of Aries the ram Ram-head river god like Egyptian Khnum of the Nile, and the horned form of Achelous (River God) of Greece. Since Khnum is a ram-creator god making Man from clay, and Brahma is a creator, perhaps Aries corresponds to Brahma, the Brahma bull, witnessing justice for his lost head. Eridanus constellation may represent the holy river Ganges at Varanasi, in which Shiva bathed to finally, after 12 years of wandering, cleansed his spirit and released the head of Brahma from his hand.

STORY IN THE STARS: Shiva, with the 5th head of Brahma stuck to his hand, corresponds to Perseus with head of Medusa. Beings draped with snakes is also a motif of Shiva. The Milky Way and Eridanas are the holy rivers in which Shiva seeks absolution and release of the head. The head, which caused Brahma (Aries ram) to sin is on the rump side of the Aries ram. Shiva kneels to Mother goddess as spirit of the tirtha, Ganga, or Shakti, represented as charioteer Auriga. The Milky Way falls from heaven like a holy river. The 7 figures at the bottom of the seal are the 7 sisters of the Pleiades in Taurus. Taurus also represents Nandi, Shiva's constant companion. Drafted from StarWalk2 CCH 2026-2-22

SHIVA SWALLOWS POISON. Churning of the Ocean of Milk, Samudra Manthan, part 2

Treasures of the Ocean of Milk

Shiva swallows poison to save the world

SHIVA SWALLOWS POISON TO SAVE THE WORLD.
Churning of the Ocean of Milk legend written in ancient Indus Script, c 2000 B.C.

	SHIVA SYMBOL. Glyph #342:
	SHIVA'S TRIDENT. Glyph #162: trishul
	SCORPION. Glyph #53: Poison from the Ocean of Milk
	CONCH #389: Shiva drinks the Ocean poison from the sea shell
	CHURN. Glyph #252: Churning vessel and churning rod.
	MOUTH #402: Shiva swallowing poison.

MahaShivratri celebration seal

Several legendary events are connected with MahaShivratri: the marriage of Shiva and Parvati, the manifestation of Jyotirlinga, and the Churning of the Ocean of Milk. Many seals bear emblems related to this including M-314 and Lubdhaka, man, tree, and tiger. M314 and the Fig goddess seal can be interpreted as wedding scenes.

Three goddesses featured: Lakshmi, goddess of Fortune, who was rescued from the Ocean. Her blessing presence was lost by the gods when they were cursed. Mohini, the enchanting goddess form of god Vishnu seduced the demons into giving up the Amrit elixir that they stole. Parvati helped Shiva as he saved the world by drinking the Halahala poison which emerged from the Ocean. She wrapped her hands around his throat so the poison would not enter his body. It stayed in this throat and turned it blue. He became so hot that the Moon was put on his head to cool him.

M-314 Seal.
Mahadev! Great god Shiva! (up arrow, third-eye fish)
Great gods and goddesses, Shiva, Vishnu, and Lakshmi of Heaven!
Plowing, churning (the Ocean of Milk). Vishnu, the upholder. Shiva, the dispeller of evil!
The dying (were healed). Amrita, the Elixir of Life.
(Praises to) Shiva, Lord of the Trident, Great Bow, Hair from which flows mighty Ganga River, Third Eye, Trimurti!

Line 1: (Right to left) [1.1] Maha, Great (up arrow). God (fish). [1.2] Shiva (fish with dot for 3rd eye). [1.4] Vishnu (fish with 4 arms). [1.5] Goddess (small fish with crown). [1.6] Of (double ticks). Plural (double ticks, "). [1.7] Heaven (wheel). Vishnu chakra (wheel). Vishnu turtle avatar (wheel). Line 2: Left to right, bostrophodon, zig zag like oxen plowing since this legend is about Gods and demons plowing and churning the Ocean of Milk to get the Elixir of Immortality. Line 2: [2.1] Plow. Farm plow, Egyptian mr hieroglyph. [2.2] Butter churn, symbolizing churning of ocean. [2.3] Vishnu (arms up, upholding the cosmos). [2.4] Shiva (Jar with wings, Sacrum bone with serpents emerging, crossed arms. God of yoga, Transformer, Destroyer. Line 3: Describe above, right to left. [3.1] Dead bird. The gods are dying from curse of Sage Durvasa, they are desperate for a cure. [3.2] Sea-shell used to drink Elixir. Thanks to Shiva drinking a shell of poison, the gods obtained Amrita. [3.3] Attributes of Shiva, his trident, weapons like bow and arrow, third eye. [3.7] Number three, recognizing this number sacred to Shiva. His has 3 eyes, a 3 pointed trident, and is a member of the trinity of Hindu primary gods, the Trimurti. (CCH 2026-2-11)

INDUS SCRIPT SYNTAX: Pakistan Indus Inscription Blk-4-A (Mahadevan 1977)
Shiva swallowed the flow of poison from the Churning of the Ocean of Milk.

244	402	180	97	53 / 216	254

SHIVA tiger mat / lingam	SWALLOW	FLOW	OF / giving / negating	POISON scorpion poison	tug-of-war, symbolizing Churning of the Ocean of Milk
SUBJECT	VERB	OBJECT	prep/ neg verb	object modifier "of poison"	object modifier "from the tug-of-war (Churning of the Ocean of Milk)"

Glyph 226 might represent wrapping around, the way that Ganga River descends and wraps around Shiva's hair to break its fall down to Earth. The Y glyphs might be yagya, giving, offering, sacrifices. 225 throne, altar, sacrifice, 228 marriage, 229 grand yagya or wedding? Represents a hand, giving, helping, offering, joining? 232 Pipal world tree with the three mountain symbol used in hieroglyphs for foreign lands representing heaven and earth (2405 50 Concordance /\/\/\ ()x() As Above, So Below mountains and vesica pisces joining. 2026-1--27). The cosmic tree joins all realms. It is the Bodhi tree, the tree which caught Shani Dev on his fall upside down. In Pashupati seal, the leaf is seen growing from his head. Perhaps the spines on his arms connect him to the tree as well as being Lord of Animals.

Horse-head gods and demons, Hyagriva

GLYPH #6: HYAGRIVA, THE HORSE-HEAD GOD OF WISDOM

A HORSE-HEAD DEMON STOLE THE VEDAS: wisdom scriptures, from the four-headed creator god Brahma (glyph #5). This Danava demon was called Hyagriva *, meaning horse-head (Indus Script glyph #4). He had heard that after the Great Flood, gods planned to share Vedic wisdom with humans, which would put them on par with the gods. He jealously wanted to prevent this. He had obtained a boon that he could only be defeated by another horse-head hyagriva, and he was the only one. The Vedas were embodied as four children, and the demon abducted them by first enticing them with his horse disguise, and then abducting them to his lair below the ocean. Gods, including Vishnu battled the demon Danava to recover the Vedas, but returned exhausted and defeated. Vishu was so tired, he fell asleep on a bowstring (#7). In accordance with destiny, a termite (#57) gnawed through the string and the cable snapped, cutting off Vishnu's head. The gods replaced Vishnu's head with that of a horse, so that he also became hyagriva. Then with his Matsya unicorn fish avatar (#62) and his new horse-head forms, Vishnu defeated the demon in his sea-shell and horse-head forms and returned the Vedas to Brahma. In his horse-head form, Vishnu hyagriva became wisdom deified.

MIND BLOWN. Sage Dadichi wished to impart Vedic knowledge to the Ashwini Kumara twins, but was cursed that his head would explode if he ever shared the information. The twins devised a plan to replace Sage Dadichi's head with that of a horse. After the knowledge was imparted, the horse-head exploded, and Dadichi's original head was replaced. The wise twins thereafter were depicted with horse heads. (@ Joshi, 2022) In other legends, the wife of the sun Surya, needing a break from light and heat, left a shadow double in her place and took the form of a horse and lived on earth and studied spirituality for a long time. The horse received respect for its grace and swiftness, and as a spirit animal and vessel of divine life and inspiration from ancient times. Discovering her absence, the Sun took a vacation, incarnated as a horse, and joined his wife for a romantic reunion. To win her back, Surya, the Sun, sacrificed 15/16ths of his energy, which was melded into the super-weapons of the gods, like Vishnu's chakra, the Brahma danda staff @, and Shiva's trishul trident. Horsehead nebula in Orion

Below: Vishnu in the form of his Matsya fish avatar vanquishing the ocean demon, recovering the Vedas, and saving Manu and the SaptaRishis from the Great Flood.

HORSE-HEAD GLYPH INTERPRETATION:

#4 Hyagriva, horse-head god or demon of wisdom.

#5 Brahma with 5 heads, or with parasol indicating Brahmin status or covering loss of 5th head, covered with humility instead of ego.

#6 Hyagriva.

#7 Vishnu and bowstring which severed his head, enabling him to attain a Hyagriva horse-head form.

Horse is another metaphor for the Atman achieving universal integration, mastering, harmoniously working with, the powerful wild horse of the lower nature 2026-5-24

Dwarf defeats demon king

GLYPH #42: DWARF DEFEATS A DEMON KING BY GROWING TO COSMIC SIZE

Indus Script glyph #42. DEMON KING BALI BECAME SO POWERFUL that he ruled all three realms of the whole universe. Both Devas, the gods, and humans prayed to the god Vishnu for relief from King Bali's cruel treatment. In other versions of the story, Bali's administration was so good and effective that he outshone the gods and legitimately took over all 3 worlds. Vishnu sent his dwarf avatar in the disguise of a Brahmin holy man to the court of Bali and requested an area of land that he could cover with three steps. King Bali looked at the tiny feet of the dwarf, laughed, and accepted. (In other versions, he knew he would lose his kingdom, his advisor Shukracharya warned him, but he was determined to keep his pledge to be honorable and genuinely respected Vishnu). Suddenly, the dwarf grew so big that his first step reached over mountains (glyph #41). His second step reached between worlds (glyph #42). Realizing he was dealing with a god, King Bali humbly offered his head for the third step of land. With his foot, Vamana pushed Bali down to rule the underworld, and the balance of the universe was restored. Indus Script glyph #42 shows the dwarf Vamana standing on two worlds because he has grown to enormous size.

In other versions of the legend, demon king Bali was actually a just and capable king. He subjects on the island of Lanka prospered. The problem that he was so successful, the balance of the universe was upset. Indra, king of the gods was jealous. Although, Bali rules the underworld, he returns to Earth on a special holiday of Onam every year, which is celebrated in India with flower arrangements, special garments, and a feast of delicacies served on banana leaves. In the next Manvantara, Bali will become the new Indra.

References: Narada Purana: Vamana's foot breaks heaven, creating spring of Ganga. Vamana Purana

Hanuman, immortal monkey god, avatar of Shiva and son of Vayu, the wind god, possessed yogic siddhi (power) enabling him to leap over oceans; grow large enough to carry a mountain, burn a demon city with his flaming tail, and when he was young, attempted to swallow the sun, thinking it was a ripe fruit. He also defeated a rapacious, ship-swallowing demoness by suddenly transforming from huge to miniscule and flying into her mouth to attack from the inside. His five-faced form may be linked to a mysterious glyph ))))) (#298) which may represent 5 faces or avatars. Hanuman is believed to be an immortal, still alive today, who will assume the position of Brahma the Creator in the next great Manvanthar age.

Glyph for Gandharvas, guardians of Soma, or Hanuman

Indus Script glyph #41, #42, and #43 are determinitives of size scale: as big as a mountain, and ocean, or encompassing multiple worlds. In the Indus texts (concordance Mahadevan 1977), they are used to illustrate the greatness and omnipresence of deity, to praise Shiva. Here, they are used to illustrate the legend of Vamana, the dwarf avatar of Vishnu. He defeated the demon king Bali, who had conquered the three worlds, by growing to cosmic size. Bali had pledged to give him three feet of land, but after Vamana's expansion, he had to offer his own head for the third foot, give up his cosmic empire, and confine his rule to the underworld.

Half-male, half-female Shiva Ardhanarishwara

ARDHANARISHWARA - HALF MALE AND HALF FEMALE SHIVA

THERE ONCE WAS A DEVOTEE WHO WOULD WORSHIP ONLY SHIVA. He circled around Shiva reverently, but excluded Shiva's wife Parvati, and that hurt her feelings. The next time he visited, Shiva put Parvati on his lap to make sure she shared the honor. The devotee (Bhringi) @ @ turned into a serpent and slithered in between them. Shiva was amused, but Parvati was annoyed. Next, Shiva and his mate fused (#87) into one being that was male and one side and female on the other. This was the the first manifestation of the Ardhanarishvara (half male) form of Shiva. The devotee only circled the leg that belonged to Shiva's male half ( #40). The next time the sexist devotee visited, Shiva and Parvati fused together and stood only on one leg. The determined devotee turned into an insect (#57) and bored through their navel (#354, #319). That was the last straw. Finally, to teach the man about the importance of both male and female, Parvati (#8) decreed that henceforth, the man could only have the parts of his body inherited from his father, his nerves and bones. The feminine flesh and blood withered away, and the devotee became a three-legged skeleton (Indus glyph #39). Unicorn seal M-595 shows the circle (#40, #391) that skeleton man (#39, #48) made around Shiva (#342).

Three-legged skeleton man (#39) repeated action (#95) and the union of Shiva (#342) and Parvati (#65) in one divided (#123) body
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* ISHWARA - Lord, man with the BIG HAND, dominion. Division + Moon = week? Knife = edge = threshold = crossing = immanence @ transformation. Shiva V sacral bone, kundalini rising. Fish = priest = Brahmin = north crown. Hapi sema tawi samudra manthan pulling /\. Knife - liminal. Knife Judge Divider Lord sword. Swan divides elixir from water. Discern truth good. Sculptor, Shiva as Destroyer, transformer, former, rhythm maker. Liminial edge, DAWN OF ENLIGHTENMENT, moon births the sun, neither day nor night, zero-point energy. HOREMAHET (Meta: hr: face. em: mother. n: of. akhet: female spirit. Sphinx: image of the goddess. Great lion. Great Cow. FF if + if balanced potential=0. Narsimha: neither man nor beast, neither night nor day, neither in nor out: on the threshold. Threshold of dawn *) /\*.

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Shiva Pashupati, Lord of Animals

Pashupati

Pashupati - Lord of Pasha noose, Lord of bound creatures, humans tethered by unenlightenment, Shiva is Liberator
Bound feet, prisoner. Passionate feet, Dance of destruction and creation, Tandava dance
Insect-like, hairy legs like that of bee which transports pollen. Bangles. Shackles
Translation: Pashupati!! Pasha (#225), noose X 2 = Pashu + Pati, feet. His feet, his presence is omnipresent, even in a blade of grass. This is the noose that Yam uses to pull the soul from the body. Also Y for right hand radical, Chinese: 又 (yòu), yield, yank, yajna. Double tick " plural, dual. Pati, feet. With yogic concentration, he splits the grass and emerges as primordial twin sparks from the grass as if it was the Jyotirlinga pillar. Outwardly, he is calm, radiating inner peace. But his seat rests on axe blades and he is dancing furiously as Nataraja, maintaining the frenzied subatomic energies of the universe. 2026-2-15

Marriage of the Self with Divine. Shiva is a god which emerges from nature before humans and is the first yoga teacher, one with animals. Shiva is seen between the white tiger of spirit and the dark tiger, his shadow self. He is creating space, holding and mastering his shadow while preparing to unite with the bride white female tiger. The Maha (great) arrow great is over the dark male tiger. The deva divinity dva divide symbol is between Shiva and black tiger. the Y yoga unite symbol is between Shiva and white tiger. She has the ladder H of life, ascension, DNA above her. In another tiger seal it has symbols for adversary (right hand with claw) and destruction X with || two united into one symbol and )) protection. Destroy enemies, the shield of those who are aligned. This is a metaphor of someone who has worked hard for inner alignment, love, and unity on the plane of spiritual transcendence.

Further Excavations in Mohenjodaro. ADIYOGI, #75. Up arrow is "AD" used also in ADVAITA, AD ~ AT high, to, great.

Pashupati seal: Unity theme. Shiva meditates wearing a crown of a giagantic bow and axe. The bow represents tension and far reach. The axe represents clarity and cutting destructive attachments. His concentration is so laser focused that he has split a single blade of grass and cut down to the core of reality, revealing the twin spark a duality, the bindu, seed of existence. Shiva is surrounded by animals representing forces. The gravity and obstacle clearing elephant or mammoth (Cranial top knot and steep back slope. Not flat back Asian elephant. Mammoth, Pleistocene era). The electric force of the tiger of passion on which he often is seated. The buffalo or ox preparing the ground. Nandi, his mount. The rhinocerous, a unicorn representing immortality. There is a female top right bearing two right hand glyphs indicating marriage. A male, posed frontally like Shiva is at right. Three animals and the woman face east. The tiger faces west. The man and Shiva face out of the plane, frontally. The seal speaks of a balance and unity of dynamic forces and individuals who are all one. Under the seal there are deer. This alludes to the legend of Amarnath. Before sharing the secret of immortality with Parvati, Shiva successively sheds all his layers - Nandi, his mount. Elephant head GAnesh his son. 5 headed Nagas representing 5 elements. He fire scours and ice seals the cave. Yet surviving under a deerskin in the inner-scanctum are two eggs which heard all the secrets. These gentle and innocent beings, overlooked under the deer-skin mercy seat, are the successors and seeds who carry one life from gentle humble beginnings. The spectacle of life features mighty powers, but in the inner still core are whisper gentle ripples of subtle force which define it all.

SHIVA IN MOURNING. I MISS YOU. Soul-shattered Prajapati. Sati immolated. Shiva carries her body around the land for ages, maintaining it with his yogic powers. Like a last final slow dance. Like a devoted couple who planned a trip together for a lifetime and then one died (like Up movie). The other does the trip solo, carrying ashes or memories. Finally slowed to halt and wound up for Tandava to destroy reboot creation. Vishnu steps in to preserve the world and uses Sudarshan chakra to dissipate Shiva's attachment, distributing pieces of the body Sati to especially sacred spots on Shakti pilgrimmange route. Released from the material phase of attachment, Shiva relents from destroying the world and sits in meditation for long ages. This image depicts the long age of sitting with a shattered spirit, (dark tiger of anguish, guilt, and anger attacking him, other animal spirits comforting and supporting) depicted devasted to such an extent that every fiber of his being (blade of grass) is cloven in two exposing the primordial twin spark. Under his seat, the soul of hope, two deer representing the imperishable soul embers of couple of Shiva and Shakti live on forever, gently grazing, (like eggs in Amarnath story which survive in space with no life) awaiting the next incarnation. X Max Apex Exit.

SHIVA PASHUPATI, lord of animals
Great god, first yoga master, forest sage

Center: SHIVA PASHUPATI, Lord of animals, tiger wrestler seal from Mohenjo-daro (M-308).
Center: MAHADEVA, great god, is a primary epithet of Shiva. Great (sign #153, #155). God fish (#59).
Center: SHIVA FOREST SAGE (center). FOREST represented by the up arrow tree (sign #153, #155) and GOD by the god fish sign (#59). The original sages were equal to gods and wielded cosmic powers. Once, a sage became angry at the gods for not accepting his patron king into their heaven. They repelled the king as he ascended in the air, senting him hurtling back towards the underworld. Enraged, the sage started to recreate a whole new universe with a new cast of gods. Scrambling to pacify him, the gods made the king into a constellation.
Bottom left: ADIYOGI Proto-Shiva sits in yogic posture.
Possible 2 way in scription: Right to left. Mahadeva & Adiyogi. Left to right: Hari Yogi Sage Forest. Yoga means union. He is separating and uniting the tigers, cosmic forces.
Yoga means joining, and the letter Y shows a split joined at the bottom. Y also represents yogis because they support their prayer-bead arm with a Y-shaped danda stick.

H: ladder (glyph #186)
HARI, honorific salutation.
H male suffix.
H respiration, breath.
HARA (meta) fire breath, Shiva Destroyer -- of death, ignorance, burning away mortality and material bondage.
Seal from Mohenjo-daro (M-304). Indus Script - Sanskrit - English interpretation by Celeste Horner 2024-4-14
Yajnadevam: Is the Pashupati seal Rudra?
THE LORD OF ANIMALS IS PLAYING WITH TIGERS. They are jumping up on him like eager pet dogs about to lick his face. This is often characterized as combat: Strangling / Wrestling / Fighting tigers, but should be hugging, playing with tigers, and scratching them under their chins. Shiva dressed in skins like Tarzan. It is a primordial scene of idyllic first time. Adiyuga. Animals were like family. There is much mythological lore about ability of deities to shape-shift and tranform into animals. (Combat and dominance situation is indicated in Indus text where two scorpions are claw to claw). Sumerian demigod Gilgamesh shown holding a lion in one arm like a pet cat.

San Francisco statue of King Ashurbanipal (Library at Nineveh). (Maheshwar ~ Ash UR ~ Egyptian s wer great man. Ish Fire Hebrew. Shining One?) Also hunt scene, barehand wrestle lion shot with arrow. Shows later versions of this motif. Gilgamesh with lion * Marduk fights Tiamat with mace, also weapon of Hindu gods. Gravity

Native American chief in Pashupati posture, painted 1700s A.D
Pan Pashupati Mercury Loki Cernunnos - Long inscription mystery San Jeev mantra (||||) unicorn alchemy salt lick. Looks like sailboat also - formula bouyant vessel, plus fabric to catch wind, complementary principles. That which bears the sun from dusk to next sunrise, the arc.
VISHNU NARASIMHA SPLITS THE PILLAR X| X| together joined V split apart, " and plural together dual. Tiger (Shakti) Elephant (Lakshmi) female side. Buffalo and unicorn male. Shiva winged lion * Sri yantra Shiva hunter Face of Glory.

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Curse of the Kumaras

THE KUMARAS LOOK LIKE FIVE-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN, but actually they are immortals, the oldest and wisest beings in the universe. The four Kumaras were born of the mind of Brahma, the four-headed creator god. Once, the Kumaras came to the celestial palace of god Vishnu and asked to see him. The two gate-keepers, thinking the Kumaras were mere children, arrogantly turned them away. To teach them humility, the Kumaras cursed the two gatekeepers to be born as humans. They had a choice: They could be born seven times as devotees of Vishnu, or born three times as adversaries of Vishnu and be slain by him. Devoted to Vishnu, and wanting to return to their positions as soon as possible, the gatekeepers chose to be born three times as enemies of Vishnu, the god that they loved. This is a story that gives a surprising twist to judgements of good and apparently evil people.

Inscription 9902: Curse of Kumaras. Children (baby fish under roof, part of house, family) negate (void dot) two gatekeepers (two men, two gates).

video

GLYPHS: Two gates (or two sudarshan chakras) for the two gate-keepers. Three strokes for three lifetimes. Man with scorpion, adversary.
Wheel X | icon (*) incarnation, eXpose, manifestation.
#245 Gate. 9 cell chart, nakshastras, astrological charting.
#245 18 Puranas + sage and walking stick = sage who teaches Puranas and travels. Sage Narada. School, ashram, arena. Disciples gather. Tell us the Puranas. Please recite!
#245 x 2. Shakti Peethas + traveling Pilgrim
Universe Genetic algorithm, father chart + mother chart = big-bang child reconciliation and creation process The four Kumaras
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Most Kushana coins have OESHO - Shivoham Isha? Mahesh Osho

Unicorn seal. Curse of the Kumaras legend showing two gates and three strokes for 3 cursed lifetimes for each of the two gatekeepers of Vishnu, cursed for being rude to childlike sages. Cow-lick in this seal takes appearance of Brahma's egg, which cracked to produce heaven and earth from its upper and lower halves. God of balance symbol (#15) for dharma and karma. CCH2026. Harappa.com

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Shiva Nataraja, Lord of the Dance

Figure 2. Shiva as Nataraja, Lord of the Dance trampling the demon of ignorance. Bronze of the 10th - 11th century Chola period. Tamil Nadu, India. Institute of Chicago, 2018.

Figure . Shiva Nataraja, Lord of the Dance slaying the Bull of Ego. (Alternatively, Shiva as Nandi, the Bull of Will effacing the ego and stoically enduring abuse from a dancing fiend and demented phase of Self, during one of the eras in which, according to Hindu mythology, demon forces have deposed the devas and conquered the three realms of the universe.)
VRISHRABHA BULL AVATAR OF SHIVA. Alternatively, the bull is a form which Shiva assumed to bring order to the world. In this Indus seal, Shiva would be the horned figure seated in meditation, projecting himself into the fighting bull. The figure fighting with the spear may represent the god Vishnu! In the Rudra Samhita Shiva Purana, it is related that after the Churning of the Ocean of Milk, Vishnu (Hari) went to do battle in the underworld (Patala). He was trying rescue the Amrita elixir of life stolen by the demon Asuras. (Alternatively, Vishnu went to battle because the although Gods had Amrita, but the demons led by Shukra Charya had a mantra that revived them from the dead, and great battles ensued). Vishnu became entangled in the underworld and lost his mind. Succumbing to illusion and the arrow of Kama Dev amid the beautiful maidens of the underworld, he accidentally sired evil and arrogant demi-god sons who caused chaos, harassing the sages and worlds (compare to Bull of Heaven slain by Gilgamesh and Enkidu). To restore balance to the universe, Shiva assumed the form of a divine bull (Vrishrabha) to subdue them. In this form, Shiva even had to battle Vishnu himself in order to liberate him from the illusion of Maya, restoring him to his senses. 2026-2-3 * demon assumed guise of bull also Mahishasura
Shiva looks impassively on both the man and bull opponents of the battle because he is both Hindu Saga

A foot, signifying divine presence
and protection, and mokshai -- liberation
from the cycle of birth and death in karmic bondage. Indus Script glyph #341

Once, a holy couple was blessed with a wise and wonderful child. They were sad that it was his destiny not to live past the age of 16. When he reached that age, he went into a temple, grasped a Shiva lingam and entered meditation so profound that the minions of Death could not take him. Finally, the Lord of Death arrived and threw his noose around both the boy and the lingam. Shiva emerged from the lingam in a rage and trampled Death into the ground. No one died for a while, and the balance of life was starting to get upset. Finally an agreement was reached. Death forever released its hold on the boy. He lives forever at the age of 16.

The foot glyph 341 , representing Shiva's raised stomping foot as he performs the Tandava dance of cosmic destruction. He is surrounded by the firey chakra, wheel ( glyph 391) of Samsara, the cycle of creation, preservation, and destruction. The chakra glyph 391 also represents the Sudarshan chakra, whirling blade that is Vishnu's weapon, which atomizes and obliterates any obstacle. (Also star signifying heaven, wheel, rotation, axis mundi tree. Foot also divine presence, foot of Vishnu where Lakshmi sits caressing the sleeping or reclining form of Vishnu). Mahadevan Concordance pg 427, Interpretation: C. Horner 2026-2-1
TODO *Vt, Rings of Rama. Fig goddess seal

SHIVA NATARAJA, Lord of the Dance

INDUS SCRIPT SIGNS OF LORD SHIVA

Indus script signs for god Shiva

SHIVA
mode 0
nirguna
without attributes SHIVA
mode 1
unity
Lingam SHIVA
mode 2
marriage
union
dual
half-female SHIVA
mode 3
Destroyer
SHIVA
mode 4
Supreme goddess
Shakti
mother, Ma'at ~~Shiva~~ 4-arm
Vishnu Shiva
3rd eye goddess
Lakshmi
pours
BLESSINGS MOTHER GODDESS
SHAKTI
Tara
Lakshmi Brahma navel lotus
Shiva 3rd eye
Vishnu upholder VISHNU
symbol
PRESER-
VER
SHIVA
symbol
ANNI-
HILATOR
Shiva
linga 3 GOD-
DESSES
Tridevi
roof crown 3 GODS
Trimurti
Shiva
Vishnu
Brahma

mahesh

THE MOST FREQUENT INDUS SIGN - THE SHIVA SYMBOL
A FOREHEAD MARK OF SHIVA AND VISHNU

The winged V symbol, Indus sign #342, is most frequent in the Indus Script corpus.
It was deduced to represent the god Shiva based on its use in the Man-Tree-Tiger and Shiva Pashupati, Lord of the Animals seals. It represents the mark on the cobra around his neck and is also is a tilak forehead mark, and combines the V-shaped design worn by Vishnu devotees, with the horizontal bars worn by Shiva devotees, which represent his command over the three worlds. 2-bars
Indus / Harappan figurine with tika, c 2800 B.C. (Kenoyer, J. M.)
Priest-king forehead marks the third eye
Dr. Jonathan Mark Kenoyer comment on tika on figurine from 2800 B.C. Wish-fulfilling tree roots up | Priest king and Queen Crown on head - basket of harvest, axe, pedestal because she is a pillar of heaven and supports roof of heaven. Broad shoulders - female goddesses like Durga were fierce warriors 2026-5-24 poison-medicine compound Churning of Ocean. hidden compartment seal House PR D Deva Parvati. Goddess temple? Tirtha. Descent of the Ganga mark on Oman jar. Pen or writing implement? Hair pins, weaving, sewing tools. bangles with signs poison! Dholavira northern gate sign Bahrain unity seal: 3 births / incarnations, one soul. String of beads. Intersecting circles, Two holding hands. Trade routes = Fractal tree god * Eden is Head flanked by arms: Tigris Euphrates and East of Eden Indus Rivers. Head is 3 fork tree, hands are 3 forked tree. Each branch is its own tree. Fractal pattern repeats. music notation * cosmic axis Shiva pipal Swastika inner energy, kundalina source, Earth heart with 4 directions. Brahma swan avatar on contract snapped seal, each party got half
Personal darshan, pull unseen seal with cord attached to boss from a collection to get personal message from divine. Prasad. Favors distributed at yajnas.

Cone representing the apex of heaven, where there are harmless deer grazing. The roots of heaven's axis tree, Ashvratta which has branches on Earth and roots in Heaven. Allusion to upside-down squirrel as emissary of heaven. 2026-5-24 . Rectangular pottery shard inscribed: =V= Shiva, Mahadev (V opened wide) nama. Stroke of oneness or nothingness (not). Third eye of Shiva. The V denotes both a vessel and division. The god creates by dividing, sculpting. (Chinese - pure from impure. Bible - divided waters. Egyptian - Shu divides heaven and earth etc, biology - cell division). Other ostracon shows Jytirlinga, axis mundi. 2. 4 directions. 3. linga or turtle shell which supports all. 4. ?

Shiva as pillar, Axis Mundi

William Dairymple. Kerala was the center of the ancient world.
Sacred mound, bump on which potter's wheel of heaven rotates, central axis. Axle of chariot. Pillar holding up heaven.
That which lifts and separates: Egyptian Shu, Chinese Pangu, Atlas. Apollo. Stupa.
33 degree atlas bone holding up skull, top of spinal cord traveling monk Gandarvas Nalanda university Nalanda library most important since Alexandria tower

THREE-LEAF BAEL TREE, SACRED TO SHIVA

Three-leaf clusters of Bael (aka Bhel, Bil, Bel, Aegle marmelos ) leaves, sacred to Shiva are represented in the Indus Script. Shiva is often depicted with the leaves on his hair or on his throat. This is a very specific and diagnostic linkage between the ancient and modern Hindu traditions.
Pipal tree long life, evolution, air roots, see queen of tree dancing circle. Sacred tree links. Upside down Sapta rishi in Indus seal with scorpion. TODO

THREE-LEAF BAEL TREE - ICON OF SHIVA WORSHIP

Figure 3: Icons of Shiva in the Indus Script: Trimurti, Bhel tree. Celeste Horner 2024.

SHIVA LINGAM

Figure 5: Indus script glyphs for "Shiva lingam". The glyph has the tripundra, three horizontal lines which represent Shiva's omnipresence in the three worlds. Celeste Horner 2024. Times of India: Most popular Shiva temples in India for Maha Shivratri.

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Dravidian and Indus Valley Script (lecture) by Professor Asko Parpola
Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions

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Varuna
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Kautuka ritual thread
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Celeste Horner interpretation 2026: FIG GODDESS SEAL. Shiva has atoned for severing the head of Brahma. It stuck to his hand for years until he completed his penanced and washed in the sacred river. This seal corresponds to star constellations including Perseus with the severed head of Medusa. Taurus and 7 standing attendants are the Pleiades. Fig goddess Auriga the Charioteer. Divine marriage and psychic integration. See Jyotirlinga commentary. 2024-5-11: TREE GODDESS INDUS SEAL. This is a divine marriage indicated by the joined hearts, and knot-tying symbols (#228) at the top center. The queen and goddess levitates in the heart of the wish-fulfilling tree. The champion, king, and sage, is on his knees. He possesses a decapitated demon head representing overcoming arrogance and ego. He represents wisdom and humility. Is he tied up in a knot, asking for forgiveness, reuninion? The loyal bull of his strength, his soul is behind him. The great trinity of love, wisdom, and power are meeting. Seven tree spirits represent the great challenges that the champion has overcome to achieve union with the queen. The hieros gamos divine marriage represents the culmination and fruition of the process of raising the kundalini serpent energy to the third eye. (Shiva meets Shakti in the V shaped third eye tilaka, Egyptian uraeus, cobra of consciousness). [2] Consider also the daughter of Shiva and Parvati Shakti, a forest guardian goddess.

RESOURCES IN PROCESS

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Shiva tilak forehead mark
and Brahma hamsa swan vehicle
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Corpus continued. Decorative seals.
Indo-Iranian borderlands

Right: 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.

Sirius through a telescope. Rainbow diamond with writhing rivers of electric current sweeping the surface.

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Semele - saw god and burned (like Icharus), mother of Dionysis. Sem (semi / seed) ela (goddess). Sita (burned). ST Ast Isis (Possessed master word) Eve (first to taste fruit of Knowledge) Astarte. Sesha. Ixchel. U+0160 Š S with Caron / Hacek moon (secret, night, dark) is SHHH shadow double || pair, mirror H with shadow lying flat. M-23 no Death c) c| Hotep sundown boat of night Moon hidden secret New Moon through underworld <X> explosion, catastrophe, extinction, cross pillar of light

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THE END. THE BEGINNING
Goat Oroborus - Head facing tail. seeking fertilization and start of new life cycle
The case of the frisky goat. Alchemical code - system primed, ready for transformation, a supercharged ion
Flood scene, the (water buffalo-horned) goat is being horn butted by a rhino. Endangered due to associations with aphrodisiac and youth
implies chemical process notation. Bird swooping in to attack is gas introduction
Capricorn, the sign of Rebirth, the winter solstice, sun reborn. Janus. Two faces.
Goat-fish: swims from the bottom of the ocean, climbs to the top of the mountain. Enlightenment the long hard way. Ready to receive wings.
IBEX (caprid genus - bearded - mountain dwelling goat) Rainbow shape horns, end of flood. Beginning of new peace.
Sphinx: Lion of leo (royalty, peak). Cobra scorpio (death). Pisces 69 yin yang whirl. Water nu pot (notch) of Aquarius. Beard of Capricorn. TIME
Tusk. Tug-of-war / churning / coupling or mating / infinite rings of Rama. Sun / Earth. #99 And symbol.
If this is machine instruction, this may be ON switch.
This addresses the ultimate question of cosmic renewability and eternal sustainability. Cycles. destruction. Recovery, resurrection. New Creation
Kenoyer harappa.com
Parva #267 PR. #402 VA. Holy day
Double eye and boar seal

James R. Smith, Flikr
Astrological signs Taurus and Pisces on Indus pot. Representation of heaven as a vessel holding divine water. Fringe shows holy rain falling on the world axis tree. CCH 2026-5-24
Garlanded Devi The U V shape #328 represents an unseen deity which is draped with flowers to express devotion and respect
clover on mountaintop - #17 Healing herb, Tree of Life. Mother Tara who nursed Shiva after drinking Churning poison. Hanuman brought whole Dhronagiri mountain to heal Rama's brother. Bilva leaf offering to Shiva.
Hindu mythology provides answers to heavy-duty philosophical questions such as the nature of time (endless cycle, loop with variations), why there is good and evil (balance), nature of God, role of Man, God's cameos in the divine theatre ...
11 Rudras Male Female halves separate and live independently

Trimurti unity teaching

Celeste Claire Horner DRAFT 2026-3-30, 2026-3-22, 2026-2-7 2026-2-3, 2024-4 | celeste.horner@gmail.com | celeste@digitalthought.info
DigitalThought.info: Hidden Symbols in the Alphabet

Indus Script Deciphered as Iconography of Hindu Mythology

Abstract

Introduction

Glyph Decipherment Table

Table of Contents

Churning of the Ocean of Milk

Tarakamaya War

Jyotirlinga and How Brahma lost his fifth head

Jyotirlinga and How Brahma lost his fifth head

Matsya unicorn fish avatar of Vishnu

The curse of the Kumaras

Classic Hindu Legends Discovered in the Indus Script

Current Projects

Analysis and interpretation of the unicorn Indus seal of Kama, god of love

Unicorn Indus Seal of Kama, Hindu God of Love Kama, god of love Two hearts, man with bow; many arrows, vigorous activity; butter churn, stirring the juices of emotion; Ganga river sign represents flow; Sun, light, stars, AMOR!! Parpola p111

Parallels between Egyptian hieroglyphs and Indus script glyphs

Indus script interpreted as iconography of Hindu legends

Indus Script Deciphered as Icons of Epic Hindu Legends: glyph #16 SAMUDRA MANTHAN: THE CHURNING OF THE OCEAN OF MILK

Gods and demons turn a mountain in the Ocean of Milk to obtain Amrita, the elixir of immortality.

Lakshmi, goddess of fortune

Global mythologies of the Ocean

Reading and Interpretation Demonstration

Example Indus Seals and Inscriptions

Unicorn Yaali Seal: Churning of the Ocean of Milk

Inscription 2312: Shiva (Mahadev, great god, dispeller and destroyer of evil) swallowed the poison from the Churning (and saved the world).

Inscription 2518: Shiva swallowed death. He is lord forever. Shining cosmic axis, a pillar of light with no end. Alternative: Enlightenment = No ego.

Inscription M-314: Triple meaning marriage blessing amulet

Zebu Bull Ambrosia Seal

Zebu Bull Tiger Skin Seal

Tiger energy devours negativity and recharges

Introduction

Indus Script Interpreted as Iconography of Hindu Legends

Methodology

Results

Indusscript.in

Indusscript.in: Top frequency Indus glyph triplets

INDUS SCRIPT GRAMMAR

READING DIRECTION

Alphabetic decoding progress

Alphabetic Interpretation of the Dholavira Sign

Dholavira Theatre entrance: 𒀭 Heaven Maker's Truth. Listen and learn

Discussion

GOD IS ONE: Three-sided prism amulets illustrate the three faces of Trimurti, yet unity of god

Genesis: Garden of Eden

Garden of Eden story from the Bible? Book of Genesis in the Indus script?

Tower of Babel

The Great Flood

The Priest King - Unity Culture

Methodology: Cross-reference with contemporary civilizations: Sumer (and China)

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Conclusions DRAFT

Symbols of Shiva in the Indus Script

Hindu Legends

List and concordance of 417 Indus Script signs. Mahadevan (1977)

The Priest King

Indus Script deciphered with Hindu Mythology MATSYA: UNICORN FISH AVATAR OF VISHNU

Glyphs of the gods: the Fish in the Indus Script

Interpretation of the fish glyphs of the Indus Script as god names

Glyphs of the gods: the Fish in the Indus Script

Interpretation of the fish glyphs of the Indus Script as god names

Four-Armed Form of Vishnu

List and concordance of 417 Indus Script signs. Mahadevan (1977)

List and concordance of 417 Indus Script signs. Mahadevan (1977)

INDUS SIGN INTERPRETATION

Hindu mythology legends in the Indus Script

Lubdhaka and the Tiger

THE MAN, TREE, AND TIGER SEAL: THE ROSETTA STONE OF THE INDUS SCRIPT

* STARS ON THE NIGHT OF SHIVA *

How Brahma Lost His Fifth Head ^

Shiva and the pillar of fire, Jyotirlinga

Indus Script deciphered with Hindu Mythology: glyph #2

GLYPH #2: JYOTIRLINGA - GOD SHIVA EMERGES FROM A PILLAR OF FIRE

Aftermath of Jyotirlinga

FIG GODDESS SEAL

STAR MAP OF SHIVA AND BRAHMA'S FIFTH HEAD

SHIVA SWALLOWS POISON. Churning of the Ocean of Milk, Samudra Manthan, part 2

Treasures of the Ocean of Milk

Shiva swallows poison to save the world

MahaShivratri celebration seal

Horse-head gods and demons, Hyagriva

Unicorn Indus Seal of Kama, Hindu God of Love

Kama, god of love
Two hearts, man with bow; many arrows, vigorous activity; butter churn,
stirring the juices of emotion; Ganga river sign represents flow; Sun, light, stars, AMOR!!

Parpola p111

Indus Script Deciphered as Icons of Epic Hindu Legends: glyph #16
SAMUDRA MANTHAN: THE CHURNING OF THE OCEAN OF MILK

Gods and demons turn a mountain in the Ocean of Milk
to obtain Amrita, the elixir of immortality.

Inscription 2518: Shiva swallowed death. He is lord forever.
Shining cosmic axis, a pillar of light with no end. Alternative: Enlightenment = No ego.

Garden of Eden story from the Bible?
Book of Genesis in the Indus script?

Indus Script deciphered with Hindu Mythology
MATSYA: UNICORN FISH AVATAR OF VISHNU

SHIVA PASHUPATI, lord of animals
Great god, first yoga master, forest sage