Indus script unity theme seals from Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, c 2500 B.C.     Left: Unicorn seal. Translation: UNITY.   "ADVAITA." (\ without || two, division).* Read from head to tail of the divine animal, the message praises the great (up-arrow) undivided divine unity of three gods (devas) represented by upright fish symbols: Shiva with third eye (and up-arrow linga or Pasupata astra weapon); Vishnu with 4-arms; and Brahma with Vedas (or violence-canceling Brahmadanda staff, a cosmic vacuum cleaner, absorbing any attack with the power of absolute stillness). The sound "dev" is repeated to create the word advaita: dve || two द्वे  , and god, deva (देव) . This is the phonetic complement principle also used in Egyptian hieroglyphs. The unicorn horn helps to make the word. This fish symbols recall ancient times when great sages, such as the Sumerian Apkallu, were believed to manifest with fish-like forms, *and inhabit primordial fresh waters of wisdom.     Right: zebu bull seal: "BRAHMAN". Brahman bull represents god Brahman, the transcendent sum, the union of all gods. Divine work and power is represented by the earth-plowing strength of the bull and firey transformative energy of the tiger. The first rectangular glyph (#244) is the striped tiger-skin meditation mat of the god Shiva. The supernatural beast was conjured from the Saptarishi sacrificial fire and sent to attack Shiva, but he wrestled and conquered the embodiment of unenlightened rage and destructive passion, and turned it into his iconic seat and tiger-skin clothing. This exemplified converting negative to positive in life. Tiger-skin glyph #244 also represents tiger jaws which devour evil. Tiger skin represents spiritual ferocity. (Bold attitude: I eat challenge for breakfast, no problem!) The butter churn #252 and wheel #391 connect the seal to the legend of the Churning of the Ocean of Milk. Considered on multiple levels, the seals encode several messages simultaneously.     more     Images from Harappa.com

ADVAITA
United
\ "a" without apart divide
|| two, division
DEVA
god
Brahma
DEVA
4-arm
Vishnu
DEVA
Shiva
3rd eye
TA
at up
ad to
great
Maha
Brahma
swan bird
avatar
Brahma w/
parasol
goddess
Lakshmi
blessings
fortune
Brahma navel lotus
Shiva 3rd eye
Vishnu upholder
Br
Tiger jaws
mouth
 
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 ring
N OUT
NOT

* Advaita spelled with \ back-slash, "a", without; parallel lines "dva" two, division; and the up arrow is interpreted as "at" or "ta" ( high / to ). The fish symbols represent gods (deva), and are a phonetic complement within the word advaita. Zebu seal may spell: BRAHMAN (using phonetic complements). Mat 𓊪 Q3 hieroglyph = p converts to b. Mouth BR. Ajni chakra tilak, A. Arms up, embracing, br. Arms up, A. Hands, H. Proto-Sinaitic Haw, arms up, praise, H. (Har!) Churn, Sanskrit manthan, M. Anu wheel, A. Negation sign, N. Division is primordial key for divine Creator / sculptor mr. Nr mr water cleave Moses. Narayana Nar=water. Narasimha, Nar=man in man-lion. Nar mer man sculptor. Ptah. Part. God divided light from darkness. Shu and Pangu divide heaven from Earth. House of David, Moses Divide waters. Shiva \ annihilate, cancel cross out. || linga light shaft divide. Cell division life process 2026-4-18


* Ishta Devata (personal favorite deity) devotion. 0 || ᛏ a-deva-ta division. unicorn=0. Unicorn is both 0 and division by 0, stack overflow. Imaginary number realm. *


Indus Script Deciphered as Iconography of Hindu Mythology


CELESTE CLAIRE HORNER     [ACTIVE RESEARCH JOURNAL - DRAFT 2026-4-18]

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



The Indus Script has long been called the last undeciphered script * of a major world civilization. This is a presentation of the discovery that the enigmatic glyphs are icons representing famous Hindu legends such as How Brahma Lost His Fifth Head, and The Churning of the Ocean of Milk. Below, the glyphs are introduced within the context of story, and this insight is then applied to decode actual Indus seal artifacts. An open source, web-based diagnostic program is shared that can help users to evaluate the connection strength between any Indus expression of their choice and 10 Hindu legends by clicking on a graphical menu of glyphs or typing glyph numbers to compose an expression for heuristic analysis.


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

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
#25 #402 #197 #46 #65 #72 #18 #395 #295 #341 #234 #230 #204 #232 #16 #56
Sage with
walking
stick
MOUTH
X curse
weapon
slash
negative
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
#391 #391 #99 #171 #347 #175 #254 #228 #336 #252 #380 #53 #54 #181 #402 #244
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 (#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
#293 #17 #50 #171 #347 #389 #319 #336 #46 #327 #269 #178 #56 #72
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
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.
#25 #197 #18 #395 #295 #65 #72 #234 #230 #204 #232 #16 #56
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
#293 #17 #269A #176 #347 #389 #319 #336 #65 #327 #178 #56 #72
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


INDUS GLYPHS RELATED TO THE CHURNING OF THE OCEAN OF MILK
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 *
INDUS GLYPHS RELATED TO THE CHURNING OF THE OCEAN OF MILK 2
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




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.


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])
#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
End
zero
none




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


Alamy.com

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
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

Harappa.com, Alamy.com
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
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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 reveals the context of the scene. Trapped by a wild tiger, the hunter Lubdhaka is forced to take refuge for a whole night in a sacred Bilva (Bael) tree. He prayed, fasted, and sprinkled tear-moistened holy leaves on a Shiva lingam below the tree. This happened to be performed on the yearly holy night of MahaShivratri when the marriage of the god Shiva and goddess Shakti, incarnated as Parvati, is observed with ritual annointing of a Shiva lingam, all-night prayer, meditation, and celebration. Greatly pleased by these devotional actions, the god Shiva blessed Lubdhaka with a safe return home and bliss in his glorious paradise. Many variants of the hunter and tiger legend stress that even sinners and accidental observance of the MahaShivratri ritual can bring great spiritual reward. For thousands of years, gurus, sages, and Indus seals were preaching this message.



THREE STEPS TO DECIPHERMENT. Gregory Possehl (2008) identified the common thread of 18 Indus seals with a man in tree with a tiger. PROJECT SHIVOHAM (2024) identified the unknown legend depicted in the Man, tree and tiger Indus seal as the Mahashivratri legend of Lubdaka. SHIVOHAM video. Celeste Horner (2024) took the next step and interpreted the script by deducing the Shiva forehead tilak (jar) symbol central to the legend and the seal.

The legend of Lubdhaka and the Tiger seal was the cultural folklore Rosetta Stone of the Indus Script. Even though it was not a word-for-word multi-lingual like the Egyptian Rosetta Stone, the mystery characters could be matched with a legend that was known internationally, with an illuminating version even currently found in Bali. It demonstrated that thousands of years ago, the Indus culture was steeped in Hindu legends and they celebrated MahaShivratri. Insight from this legend sparked the great "Eureka moment" for Celeste Claire Horner, a retired librarian and independent researcher of comparative language and symbology. Watching the 2024 (and 2023) livestreams hosted by Sadhguru from Isha Yoga Center in India of the spectacular mass ceremony observing all-night ceremony, chant, music, dance, and worship was an illuminating immersion in this ancient cultural tradition. The message: STAY UP ALL NIGHT AND PRAY ON MAHASHIVRATRI! The goal is to remain upright absorb the upsurge of celestial energies from planetary alignment and scriptures guarantee that spiritual merit of pleasing Shiva. That was was the message of both Sadhguru on the livestream, and the hungry tiger on an ancient Indus terracotta seal compelling the man to stay up all night in a tree, on guard and in prayer! The long-sought interpretation key provided an independent account of the meaning of enigmatic Indus inscriptions.

As an American raised in the United States and Canada in a home oriented to world culture, with both the Bible and the Bhagavad gita on the bookshelf, Celeste was able to recognize allusions to Hindu philosophy and mythology in Indus Script artifacts. As a young child, Celeste listened as her mother, a kindergarten teacher who had visited India, read stories about Krishna and Hanuman, the mighty flying monkey god who carried a mountain. They made a lasting impression. Examining the tiger seal, she employed a prior meta-language research discovery that the upright fish @ @ Indus sign #59 was a god symbol. Her comparative culture research connected the fish symbol with Vishnu Matsya, Oannes, Dagon, the ICHTHYS fish of Christianity, intersection of circles in geometry, the vesica piscis, and the Pisces constellation. Celeste Horner deduced that the winged V "jar symbol" Indus sign #342 (jar, winnowing basket, sacred vessel, lingam), the most frequent glyph, was a third eye forehead tika sign, a cobra mark, and a SHIVA SYMBOL. Suddenly, a huge light illuminated the mystery of ancient Indus Valley civilization.

This discovery meant that the god Shiva was the central theme of the Indus Valley culture. Many seals featuring fantastic beasts, such as unicorns and elephant serpent chimeras, show that the trading, farming, and herding society particularly venerated Shiva Pashupati, Lord of Animals. The Indus Valley people were Pashupatinath Shaivites. Their proto-Sanskrit (using danda, letter va व ) ( Dravidian? Fish = "min", star (Parpola)? Caroline Islands,Easter Island * Samgan Literature, Agastia, Linear Elamite, Bactrian þ Þ SH + VA व Sanskrit) logo-ideographic writing system, the Harappan or Indus Valley Script, is composed of icons which represent legends of Hindu mythology featuring Shiva and other deities. Language-independent ideas are conveyed, which could easily be adapted to make rebus-principle writing for numerous languages. Placed on objects of the household and commerce, they sanctified prasad, carried spiritual blessing from pilgrimmage sites, taught wisdom, and immersed the beholder in continuous contemplation of legendary divine action.


With symbolic insights from prominent and fascinating Hindu legends, most of the Indus characters can be understood and organized into a few categories of a coherent mythological framework. Two primary legends illuminate most of the glyphs: Churning of the Ocean of Milk and the legend of Jyotirlinga: how Brahma lost his fifth head.


Mahashivratri ceremony with Sadhguru at Isha Yoga Center [2023] [2024] *





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

417 INDUS CHARACTERS417 total characters Mahadevan 1977 1 - 41713372
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
3421362
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 267290
2ND MOST FREQUENT PAIR 342: SHIVA. 176: Endless. Cosmic axis, spine, degrees of elevation, space342 176184
5TH MOST FREQUENT PAIR 342: SHIVA. 48: Skeleton. Burnt corpse of wife Sati
* Puni Devati. Karakal Amiar. Handstand skeleton woman #48.3
342 148114
6TH MOST FREQUENT PAIR 342: SHIVA, annihilator. 347: Vishnu, upholder 342 347110
7TH MOST FREQUENT PAIR 342: SHIVA. 8: SHAKTI. Cosmic feminine principle. Goddess 342 34793
8TH MOST FREQUENT PAIR 342: SHIVA. 1: god, man, lord, Min, Ishwara342 187
Frequent pair 123: knife blade. 293: Moon. (Shiva) Lord of Time 123 29354
Frequent pair 342: SHIVA. 59: god, deva.342 5944
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 14944
Frequent pair 342: SHIVA. 162: Trishul (trident) 342 16240
Frequent pair 342: SHIVA. 135: Mount Kailash 342 13523
Frequent pair 342: SHIVA. 293: Moon342 29314



INDUS GLYPHS RELATED TO SHIVA'S JYOTIRLINGA PILLAR OF FIRE

0
Brahma's
fifth head
dead
bird
fire
pillar
wings Vishnu
boar avatar
Brahma
bird avatar
Brahma
bird avatar
headless
bird
Brahma
swan
Endless nothing Brahma's
5th head
Jyotirlinga
temple
eyes
up / down
top
bottom
grass
pillar
boar
tusk

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


89
POSSESSIVE / relational / preposition
House of / Temple of              
99
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
||
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 verses94
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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.

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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 *


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

  • 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: Amulets illustrate the many faces, 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.

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


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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. There is a big apple with two bites taken in the center. A large antelope may represent the beasts brought to Adam. 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.

"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"

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

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.)) Ancient knowledge of Genesis also surprisingly in ancient Chinese (Bible Genesis story root of Chinese script, 2500 BC), maybe also in Indus which was contemporary? Oldest surviving in the world, much older than Dead Sea Scrolls? Tower structure on left seal also.

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


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


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.

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.



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?


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.

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.

#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.

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.

SPACE AND DEEP TIME. Rings of Rama multiverse.

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.

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.

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.

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 conversation

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.
  • 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)

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.

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.

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.






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




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







DRAFTB celeste.horner@gmail.com 2024-6-19 10:18p, 2025-11-25 2:23, 2026-1-27, 2026-3-22   HIDDEN SYMB⨁LS IN THE ALPHABET CONTENTS         🎵   🎵   pg 2 L
Lubdhaka | Samudra Manthan | Jyotirlinga | Hyagriva | Vamana | | Ardhanarishvara | Adiyogi Pashupati | Nataraja | Narasimha | Bael/Bilva |
Legends page 2: Sati | SaptaRishi Seven Sages | Dadhichi bones | Matsya | Kumaras @ . . | Descent of Ganga | Scorpion | Frog | Marriage | Grass #290-1 | Alchemy | Singularity

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


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.

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.

Arm band * Bold geometric pattern, Mediterranean?

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.





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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

DEVA
god
Vishnu
Matsya
Brahma
avatar
Brahma w/
parasol
goddess
Parvati
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

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.



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 forhead 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

DEVA
god
Vishnu
Matsya
Brahma
avatar
Brahma w/
parasol
goddess
Parvati
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

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.

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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)