In February 2024, a breakthrough in the decoding effort was achieved. A seal with Indus script was discovered to be 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 matched the traditional legend of Lubdhaka and the Tiger with eighteen terracotta seals (Possehl, 2008) which depict a tiger looking at a man in a tree. The Shivoham principal author recognized the tale as one his mother told him as a child. The legend reveals the context of the scene. Trapped by a wild tiger, the hunter Lubdhaka is forced to take refuge for a whole night in a sacred Bilva (Bael) tree. He prayed, fasted, and sprinkled tear-moistened holy leaves on a Shiva lingam below the tree. This happened to be performed on the yearly holy night of MahaShivratri when the marriage of the god Shiva and goddess Shakti, incarnated as Parvati, is observed with ritual annointing of a Shiva lingam, all-night prayer, meditation, and celebration. Greatly pleased by these devotional actions, the god Shiva blessed Lubdhaka with a safe return home and bliss in his glorious paradise. Many variants of the hunter and tiger legend stress that even sinners and accidental observance of the MahaShivratri ritual can bring great spiritual reward. For thousands of years, gurus, sages, and Indus seals were preaching this message.

The legend of Lubdhaka and the Tiger was the cultural folklore Rosetta Stone of the Indus Script. Their culture was steeped in Hindu legends and they celebrated MahaShivratri. Insight from this legend sparked the great "Eureka moment" for Celeste Claire Horner, a retired librarian and independent researcher of comparative language and symbology. Watching the 2024 (and 2023) livestreams hosted by Sadhguru from Isha Yoga Center in India of the spectacular mass ceremony observing all-night 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. 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, 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, and how Brahma lost his fifth head.

A temple house symbol #267 may indicate pilgrimmage sites such as riverside or forest tirthas, Jyotirlinga temples, or Shakti peethas. Indus Script seals supported omnipresent devotion and distinguished objects endowed with particularly auspicious blessing such as prasad from a temple. Sacred messages stamped everywhere sanctified goods and upheld a spiritual atmosphere. Perhaps they were believed to favor crops, bring prosperity, protection, health, love, and a thriving family. Indus seals icons anchored culture and encouraged everyone to continually remember ancient spiritual wisdom and visit holy sites. Aquiring tokens charged with the blessing of distant holy places may have motivated long-distance exchange and explain the presence of seals in city gateway storehouses. (Seals found outside the homeland may be composed by different rules! They may have been adapted for other purposes of communication by local language rebus encoding and give a contrasting perspective on symbol meaning.) Copper tablets have been suggested to have functioned as protective amulets worn on the neck or wrist or sewn into clothing (Mackay 1913, Parpola, Deciphering the Indus Script, 1994, p112). Devised to represent spiritual ideas and the great deeds of the gods, the Indus Script can thus be viewed as a hieroglyphic, sacred writing system.

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 PURANAS, HINDU LITERATURE. IDENTIFY ICONOGRAPHIC MOTIFS AND MATCH TO 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.

Shiva and distinctive associated icons such as trishul dominate the most frequently appearing glyph combination groups.

STATISTICAL EVALUATION

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
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. 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

• Mahadevan statistical tables
• Indusscript.in
• DRAFT Spreadsheet

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=

GRAMMAR

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. *

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 *

(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. #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?

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.

#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.

INFORMATION SCIENCE, SEMIOTICS, CRYPTOGRAPHY (Multiplexed hidden messages). Glyphs suggestive, yet ambiguous to offer structure and flexibility.

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.

CROSS-CULTURE: Shiva = Amun? = Pan? Harappan. Hara=Shiva. Pan = god of all creatures, Pashupati.

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.

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, and once when it was completely underwater.
• 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.
• 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;
• 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)

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.

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.

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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Shiva Puranas 9 Minutes

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

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

[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 [5] Ardhanarishwara: Half female form of Shiva Fig goddess seal [6]Shiva Pashupati, lord of animals Symbols of the gods, Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma [7] Curse of the Kumaras [2.1] Firey death of Sati [2.2] 7 Sages SATYA YUGA [] * * ⋄ Seven Sages * * VIMANA. V bird wing. Mn mountain. vi=away. Mount Mandara flies to Meru with Garuda wings. Brahma egg floats on cosmic ocean like splashdown space module, first on another world. Origin point. Cosmic axis. Ben Ben. Omphalos has corn kernel rounded triangle shape. Flat bottom heat shield for atmospheric reentry. Predict Yajna fire glyph and Winged Vimana / Garuda / Amrita glyph. Rita = Ma'at all beings had in Satya Yuga. * Krishna lifts mountain. * Hanuman lifts mountain. Vishnu lifts Mandara with Garuda. time dilation while listening until 18th Manvantara king * * * sacred river * galactic mixture NAGAS ** * *() diadem 3rd eye glyph [2.12] DADICHI. VAJRA: the ultimate weapon made from spinal bones of sage Dadichi adze Superweapon vajra made from bones of Dadichi [2.13] Descent of Ganga onto Shiva DESTRUCTION M-120 76/862 Hammer house, destruction of yajna of Daksha [4X] Vamana, dwarf avatar of Vishnu defeats demon king Bali HYAGRIVA [3X] Hyagriva: Horse-head gods of Wisdom VRISHRABHA Vrishrabha Bull avatar of Shiva battles Vishnu ASURAS. (Some demons born of Diti, Brahma created some by one account of several. Division made between those who said, Eat Him! vs those that said, Protect Him. Asshur Assyrian? righteous king BALI, next Brahma. Fierce mother goddess defeats Necessary fires of the underworld keep Earth alive. Digestion is 1st life system, then nervous system? Then indwelling of spirit merger ( () ) rings interlock. 3 elements born. Hephaestus (Vishwakarma, Nordic dwarves), king of the heavenly forges, makes weapons and ornaments of the gods. Smith, ingenuity engine place. Yin Yang swirl might put greatest virtue down below, as the paradise is even more beautiful that Swargalok, it is said. Lust, trauma, problems, strong knots to be encountered and transmuted. Cosmic tree roots go deep into dark places to gain the elusive nutrients to bear rare exotic fruits on the highest planes. Air roots then dropped as ladders, pillars of the sky, portals etc. to elevate places below. Alchemy of light, water mixing. Salt and fresh, Apsu and Tiamat. Dragon to battle and tame || defeat or union. The next mysterious star. Maharashtra's Vajreshwari Yogini Temple. * AdiShakti, Renuka and Kalika. Demons have heart for the beautiful ladies. Gave nectar to Mohini. Cosmic balance overall principle. VETALA. Sages that hang upside down in trees to obtain wisdom, like Odin who hung in a tree for 9 nights to obtain the secret of the Runes. Indus script in cludes sign with pam squirrel which sleeps with head downwards (Parpola p103). May represent wisdom school, sages who have come from above, know the future. China: saged identified with white bat, riding backwards on donkey. Shiva presides over this spirit associated with ghosts and grave areas. UNITY. Harmonize Integrate Unify. Unity and Mirror or complementary duality. [7X] Shiva Nataraja, lord of dance, damaru " Battle for Tara. Shiva vs. moon god Chandra. K-65 * VARUNA. Shiva meditates underwater, protected by Ganga river while Shanidev, lord of Saturn, karma, justice merges *X RINGS-OF-RAMA [ ] Rings of Rama. Universe inside mouth of Vishnu / Krishna. Belly of Shiva, Shukrakarya swallowed. MAHAVIDIA. DURGA. Lion goddess ** Sekhmet, Astarte, Inanna, Athena. Ferocious females UNICORN. Animal symbolism: Unicorn - elixir, healing. Elephant - abundance. Tiger - Shiva, valor. Bulls - harvest. Bull Shiva. Crocodile - warning. Varuna, lord of Justice, blessings of the sea, sailing, fishing, trading. Water, rain. Beauty? Horses. (Divination /Tarot) card suits. Tripura destruction. * * * D | Pinaka Bow - Shiva Dhanus (धनुस्) or Dhanush. Pashupadastra, Brahmastra ALCHEMY. Synergetic secret sauce of immortality. Satya Yuga sap from earth. Amrita and unicorn or Yali vehicle of Budh Mercury. Colors nigredo, rubido, albido, citrinas in Yugas makaradhvaja Before Churning Ocean of Milk, gods added special herbs. $ chambered stomachs of ruminants. 3 chambers of pseudoruminants. 4 yugas, 4 vedas, 4 pillars of heaven. Alchemy art: Deer = soul, unicorn = spirit. Prayer animals. Bull: fruitful harvest, fertility, prayer for children. Elephant: abundance, removal of obstacles. Unicorn: alchemy. Medicine, health, craft, and wisdom. Tiger: Passion, power, protection. Lion: royalty, honor. Horse: goddess, wisdom. Tree: Goddess Linga. pestle, death of Krishna. 18 queens. Hunter variant. Alchemy crushing for compounding. Churning. SACRED TREES AND PLANTS. Wish-fulfilling #327 (male merged, crossed with female object of desire X -- utmost, the desire for love), Ever-blooming. Soma. upside down, Bodhi, Bilva, Basil, Baobab. Venus, Tara. TREE OF ABUDANT BLESSING, MOTHER NATURE, SHAKTI, TARA, LAKSHMI Vimanas. Flew from Lanka, aerial route Sacred kusha grass, sacredness and power, weapon and icon of Shiva * weapon grass * Sacred plants - wish-fulfill, life, wisdom. Cosmic axis, ashvatha, Bodhi tree Nirguna, Bindu, Trimurti. Degumbara. Naked Singularity, clad with first layer of reality, cardinal directions. Mahavidya. Self revealing. I am this. Unity Nordic, Egyptian, Mesopotamian connections: Ancient names: Ishvara, lord, Shining One = Min (Manu/Menes) = Pan = Howler = Rudra = Pashupati = Shiva. Shu head feather. Wadjet solar disk, unicorn Pepal tree. Flail standard Indus script and Min. Garuda higher than Vishnu yet mount vs Shesha Ananta EEEE Endless. * Meenakshi Amarnath. Sequential shed of attributes: mount Nandi, son Ganesh, 5 elements Nagas. Ice and Fire sanitize, yet hope, gentle deer or two innocent eggs survive and inherit all under the Mercy Seat of deerskin. Antelope is mount of Soma. J advent of jaw, thumb, limb system. #295 possible elephant Ganesh tusk. CHURNING: Churning element - wheel, pestle. Gods - Vishnu, Shiva, Lakshmi, Brahma, Indra. Poison - scorpion claw, dead bird, skeleton. Elixir - conch shell, wings, cow-lick standard Degumbara 7 Sages Pleiades. Min. Amun-Ra Chandra charm exceeds all bounds due to Yajna, wins Tara, genders Budh, hermaphrodite son Hermes and Aphrodite / Nymph. Pan-generated by circle of gods Mesopotamia and Norse. Shape-shifter. Universal messenger. Stem cell. Seed, ark, message packaged for transport, unifying compacting all into one. MN Many One None/void, re-emerge D omphallos, Primordial Mound Emerges from Chaos. Ash=Seed, Star with unique encoded light, like flower will X with others to make new creations. M314 MARRIAGE. Vishnu X does nuptuals Shiva eye fish and goddess. D bow verility and bravado, triumph, victory. Y trishul embracing bride. MahaShivratri sub-text. #30 gem up from below, Dig and unify. String together gems. Cosmic task and eternal quest pursuit of the elusive gem of existence. Other head metaphor, fire, weapon, lid. * Cave painting, atlatl, cock pheonix. Up arrow is consciousness. Wheel is world Pakriti. U male organ up, (* ) explosion. Fertility Vishu X officiates. Shiva (*) third eye + Shakti (X) world. Amazing seal does total double duty. MARRIAGE AND CHURNING legends. Threshold xxx chaff beaten out, wheat separated from chaff. Purify for entry to sacred. Flail. Shaking. Poseidon Earth Shake. Shiva 342 states of vibration 0 1 2 3. Vishnu 4 arms. Brahma 4 Vedas and 4 Yugas. Usually numbers, then geometry etc universal node. No numbers in infinite realm? Fractal? Mother Earth Bhumi symbol. Shakti. Baobab hold water tree. Upside down tree. Ashvratta. Also Lakshmi sacrifice. But mostly Venus of Willdendorf Stone Age, enormous breasts, holding child. Tara, who nursed Shiva after drinking poison. All the treasures and bounty of the Churning. BLESSING. GOODNESS, BOUNTY. TAMIL. Ta land. ML sweet mel. M mouth. Lingual tongue and teeth. M mother. il little ones. Motherland. If Sanskrit is Father, Tamil is mother. Naga influenced script. Naga hold up the universe, maintain the wisdom through ages. Nag Hammadi. Nagasaki. Nigeria. Night Nut. Ra Light. Ger night Egypt. Guard. Asgard, enclosure. Actually over and under everything. Retains the key fish (god)=MIN. MN root MONO first. Man. FundaMENtal. Manu. Menes. MINTaka. EGYPT: Theban Triad Amun - Mut - Khonsu. Khonsu Moon child rising from lotus like Brahma. * Shiva, Osiris, Amun, Min. Sphinx cobra Sekhmet Durga etc. Check Narmer Narayana. Min Menes Manu. more. Flail and rod Indus glyph. TIME, SPACE, AND CONSCIOUSNESS. Rings of Rama. #176 E eternal degrEEEs up, DEEP down. #307 Gas guage of time, DY is a dial of time. Vector staight up = Satya Yuga. Y = Treta Yuga, arrow up 45 degrees. Down 45 degrees like Varaha tusk Dwarpara Yuga. Straight Down, time's up. Kali Yuga, return to start. Abrupt corner turn X annihiliation, reset, reboot. Make program to identify legend of inscription, assigning CF confidence factor points to individual glyphs. Diagnostic glyphs 10/10 points. Trishul, Churning, Three-legged Man, Bhringi Jeyakumar Indus Dictionary Supernatural and underworld. F hanging upside-down to gain revelation like Odin. Chinese analog. Γ * Written in the stars - constellation charts of Hindu legends. Nakshastra Vishnu. Mansions fish with roof, 4 square castle. Analemma 8 rosary Kuan yin 0G8 69. Trishanku. Rohini. Lubdhaka hunter Siris * * Calendar * * |*|

Battle for Tara. (Kalibangan seal K-65) Tarakamaya war. Shiva and moon god Chandra aim cosmic astra weapons at each other. Battle over the forbidden romance of Tara and the Moon (Chandra), which produced (Budh) Mercury. * Three strokes ||| may suggest tr sound and name Tara (2026-2 CCH) ()* torch standard * 60 degree 6 point star as combat rather than more usual harmony. Art: Lucky Thanka Tara and golden moon halo nimbus Avalokiteshvara. LuckyThangpa Tara born of Tears of Avalokiteshvara, buddha of compassion. Compare tears of Shiva, rudraksha and multi head structure, Shiva 5; 5 level.

M-300. Yali, the chimera vehicle mount (vamana) of Budh (planet Mercury in Hindu astrology).
Chakra - sun, gold; wheel, mixing. Division. Steps. Hand craft. Mortal pestle. Shiva Mercury and Lead.
Alchemical mercury universal solvent. Elephant - abundance, remover of obstacles. Bull - strength, fertility. Lion - valor, honor, strength, royalty. Serpent / Naga - wisdom, temptations, magic, mystery. Horse - goddess, beauty, swiftness, elegance. Tiger - strength, challenge, danger, passion.

Process of alchemy: Chakra = sun = gold. 1\1 division. Mortar and pestle vessel. Hand of craft. Shiva sign of annihilation, removal of the dross, transformation, flight. \ = ma multiplcation. This seal depicts the process of spiritual and physical alchemy, achieving the gold of illumination, wealth, and health. LiFe. Origin. Growth. =V=. Immortality formula. Light in head, illumination, elimination in behind, recycling remainder.

Hypothesis: The Indus Script consists of icons of well-known and ancient Hindu legends from Proto-Puranic oral traditions. This civilization worshipped Shiva as Adiyogi and Pashupati, lord of animals, often using home altars, small shrines, or tirthas - natural river or forest settings, rather than elaborate temples is this ancient period of history. The writing system is devotional and ideographic, inviting the viewer to contemplate symbols of divine actions. The seals might have been thought to bear divinitory guidance or to convey spiritual blessings, prasad from yajnas and pilgrimmage sites.

Correlations between symbols can be predicted and explained by Puranic myths. The writing system is ideographic. Signs represent ideas which are language-independent. They could have served as mneomonic devices for oral story telling. However, the Indus Script is fully compatible with alphabetic or phonetic writing using a rebus method. Some seals have been translated in this way to read, Shiva Pashupati, and OM, nama Shiva Mahadeva. Many characgters are bi-directional, but a few have a front face which helps determine reading direction. The Egyptian convention of reading into the face of a deity or living being such as a unicorn (but towards the back of a dead bird or skeleton / corpse!) can help determine the leading edge of the glyph. Bostrophodon, zig-zag reading direction has been detected on one seal, which creates a large metaphor of Churning the Ocean of milk being congruent to a farmer plowing a field to fertilize and harvest fruits. Thus, it is hypothesized that Indus Script can be read at multiple levels, both thematic and logographic, and the language incorporates clever instruments which need to be contemplated and decoded. This is an intelligent literary form. (Celeste Horner has been researching pictographic literature in Proto-Sinaitic and finding it is not primitive -- it is artfully composed and clever)