SHIVA	VA phonetic complement	DEVA

Indus Script decipherment: Lubdhaka, the tree, and the tiger seal

1. The tiger is a symbol of Shiva and Shakti power. Shiva meditates while seated on a tiger skin. There is a full cycle of symbolism in the picture. Everything relates to Shiva. The tiger, representing Shiva, compels a man with a arc on his head like Shiva, to worship with mantras and leaves which are sacred to Shiva.

2. The pictographic symbol has multiple meanings. It can represent a Shiva lingam, a sacred Bael leaf, an all-seeing eye with, an axis mundi, or even the craters of the Moon. It also alludes to the open mouth of goddess Parvati. During her extreme austerity to win the heart of Shiva as her husband, she subsisted solely on fallen leaves, and then only on air.

3. #3 and #4 are sacred leaves sprinkled by Lubdhaka. Double tick is an Indus word for "and", and indicates plural. If #2 is interpreted as a Bael leaf, #3 indicates that plural, multiple leaves are being sprinkled on the Shiva lingam, #1, the tiger which is Shiva in disguise. In the mystical 5 aspect perspective of the OM, #3 would be the nada, primordial sound reverberation created by Shiva's damaru drum, and #4 would be the bindu third eye singularity. @ 2024-2-21

4. Single tick indicates yielding, giving. Symbols 4 and 5 together write nm, namaste, I bow to the divine.

5. Symbols 5 and 9 are danda sticks, Sanskrit punctuation. As Shiva, Lord of Dance, his motions and drumming generate time and the structure of the world. As the Destroyer, Shiva is like the period at the end of a sentence. These danda sticks indicate the segments of verse and mantra, and function like repeat marks in music. Danda sticks: rods of authority, weapons, churning rod (as in making the elixir of immortality). Pillar, Shiva like the endless central pillar of the universe, jyotirlinga. Something which holds up the sky. The world will end if not supported. (Atlas, Osiris, Djed, Cronos parallels)

6. Symbol 6 is the Shiva Symbol, the most important and frequently used glyph in the Indus Script. The design is a fusion of the tilak or tika forhead marks worn by Vishnu and Shiva devotees in the present day. A figurine unearthed at Harappa showed that this style was used in ancient times also. If the Shiva symbol is inverted, it depicts a standing stone or Shiva lingam.

   Symbol 7:

   [1] the Sanskrit consonant va.

   [2] A mneumonic is that it represents the Naga king serpent Vasuki, who was coiled around mount Mandara during the Churning of the Ocean of Milk. Later Vasuki helped Shiva saved the world, by coiling around his throat to constrict the world-threatening poison that Shiva swallowed. It represents the serpent which coils around a lingam, and the sacred fig vine that coils around a tree.

   [3] Female pelvic opening, the following character show birth and light. Triune principle of father-mother-child.

   [4] V represents the Shiva'a blue throat which swallowed the world poison.

   [5] The previous symbol is A above, the v symbol represents digging below, as when Vishnu used his boar avatar to try to find the end of Shiva's pillar of fire jyotirlinga.

   [7] This glyph depicts a stem and leaf of the sacred Bilva tree. Glyph 8 is the hand offering the leaf. Glyph 6 is the Shiva linga to which the offering is made.

7. Symbol 8 is an upright fish (Indus Script glyph #59). This is a case in which the nuance of pictographic writing makes a big difference. Normally this fish glyph is pointed like a vesica piscis, and means deva, god. This glyph has been formed significantly rounder than normal. It is a round, fat, bigger fish, hence, rather than deva god, it implies Mahadeva, "great god, " a prime epithet of Shiva. Like a sun and rays of light, it represents enlightenment. OM, hail to the light of Enlightenment. The same symbol can read as OM, Mahadeva, and enlightenment. Positioned over Lubdhaka's head, it implies his serene spiritual state of mind.

8. 9 is the closing danda mark, which segments verse. The diagonal danda appears to come first. The direction of reading the Indus Script, like Egyptian hieroglyphics, is into the face of a person, god, or living being. Some letters, like the va consonant, are asymmetrical and indicate reading direction. The bulge, like the nose on a face, comes first. Danda is a word for rod. There is a yoga danda, or yoga stick on which a sage rests the forearm which holds prayer beads. The rod can also be a weapon, as in Brahmadanda. It could also be a measuring device.

9. 10. Lubdhaka, the hunter, is the subject of the legend. He has an arc on his head, like the crescent moon that Shiva wears on his matted locks top knot. He sets off into the jungle to find food for his family. It was getting dark, when he was confronted by a wild tiger. He climbed a tree to escape. It happened to be a sacred Bael or Bilva tree. He spent the whole night in the tree. His prayers, mantras, and sprinkling sacred leaves pleased Shiva. He got home safely the next day and was escorted in honor to paradise at the end of his life. In some legends, Lubdhaka is a sinful man, and he was redeemed solely because he performed an important ritual. The graphics in the Indus seal, however show Lubdhaka sitting up in yogic posture and being a spiritual individual. Legends say that the sacred Bael tree sprouts from the hand of Lakshmi, goddess of fortune, and its fruit represents her breast from the 1000 Lotus Sacrifice. There are several tree goddess seals. The Tiger seal may also have sacred marriage symbolism.

10. The tree is an interesting clue about the environment. It appears to be a primitive conifer like a cypress, and be a swamp environment which is home to swimming tigers, and crocodiles, shown in a Pashupati seal. There are tree goddess and tree dancer scenes with air-roots and sprouts from their heads. Three leaf clusters represent Shiva trident, sacred trinities, and Bael leaves. The spines on the tree resemble arm bangles which can represent beauty and prosperity (Lakshmi), they can also be used to count time: 14 day moon phases. The tree helps to form indicate a crypto-message: the mantra "OM, nama Shivaya (OM #2, nama #4, #5, Shi #6, va #7, #9 Sanskrit a, #11 tree branch ya). 2024-14-14