" It is possible that the sculpture originally formed the handle of a
mirror.[2] The yakshi is evidence of commercial trade between India and
Rome in the first century CE. However, the iconography, in particular
the exposed genitals, reveals that the figure is more likely to depict a
yakshi, a female tree spirit that represents fertility, or possibly a
syncretic version of Venus-Sri-Lakshmi from an ancient exchange between
Classical Greco-Roman and Indian cultures.[1]
The figure is now in the Secret Museum in the Naples National
Archaeological Museum.[5]
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The statuette was discovered in October 1938 beside the Casa dei Quattro
stili at Pompeii."
Of particular interest is the observation that the Rig Veda refers to a
mythical era that corresponds to the date of 7300 B.C. This date is
shown to "refer to an epoch when the vernal equinox was in Tishya or
Pushya" (p.65)--where Tishya and Pushya are Indian lunar asterisms (i.e.
constellations). The author's conjecture that the Rig Veda had its
origins in a civilization dating back to the 8th millennium B.C. would
seem to agree with the discovery of an Anatolian civilization belonging
to the same era (p.7). Interestingly, an Anatolian sculpture dating
from that era would seem to be that of the clean-shaven head of a Vedic
priest, complete with its characteristic pigtail (pp.8,160).
Archaeologists excavating the Neolithic urban settlement of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey have unearthed the figurine of a voluptuous woman
in excellent condition. More than 2,000 figurines have been found at
Çatalhöyük, but very few of them intact like this one. Several of them
were also Mother figures; this is the first one to be found intact and
with finely crafted details. It is also unusual in that it was
discovered under a platform next to a piece of obsidian where it appears
to have been deliberately placed likely for ritual purposes rather than
discarded in garbage pits where archaeologists have found many broken
statuettes, mostly made of clay. The beautiful Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük,
for example, who is herself a zaftig female archetype seated on a
throne and captured in the very act of giving birth, was found missing
her head and the right hand rest in the shape of a leopard or panther
head.
Çatalhöyük is one of the largest and most significant Neolithic settlements, which blossomed during the 8th to late 7th millennium B.C..The Sculpture: While the "seated woman of Çatalhöyük" is a famous figurine from this period, discussions linking Anatolian finds to Indo-Vedic origins often point to various, sometimes uniquely styled, human and animal figures found at the site.Ritualistic Nature: These figurines, often crafted from clay or stone, were typically discovered in domestic settings and are considered to have had ritualistic significance. The excavations in the fortress are also the first archaeological diggings on the eastern coast of the Black Sea.Cybele, an Anatolian mother goddess, is the symbol of prosperity with her pregnant belly, seated on her throne.
In Anatolian mythology she was the personification of the earth. In
Greek mythology in which she was equated to Earth-goddess Gaia, Cybele
was mostly associated with fertile nature, mountains, town and city
walls, as well as wild animals such as lions.
Shifting the Paradigm on Ancient Culture
This
book by Indian scientist Dr BG Sidharth presents a highly plausible
account of the original purpose and connections of Vedic thought,
describing the allegorical richness and antiquity of the hidden
cosmology in the oldest Indian literature.
Recognising the profundity
of Vedic thought has broad cultural implications. It is important to
see Vedic connections to Judeo-Christian and Greek thought, and to
refute the modern imperial dogmas that have subordinated India to Europe
in mythology as well as in politics over the last few centuries.
A
key theme highlighted by Dr Sidharth is the method of camouflage used by
the original Vedic authors. Many obscure images in Vedic literature
appear to be part of secret mystery initiation wisdom traditions, giving
accurate astronomical information in code, while concealing the real
meaning from the public. In many cases, it is entirely possible to
assess the most probable original meaning. Alas, the oral traditions
that held the ancient real meaning have been largely broken. Yet this
principle of encoding astronomy in myth provides an effective heuristic
to interpret Vedic ideas, a method that can help to assess what the real
purpose and meaning of the texts really are.
This ancient camouflage
method that Dr Sidharth documents in Vedic literature also applies to
the Bible, with much of its imagery serving as parable for secret
astronomical wisdom. Assessing the probable meaning of such codes offers
a scientific rather than fundamentalist method to understand what the
authors intended.
With the Vedas, it appears there really were
ancient astronomers in India who understood accurate knowledge that was
later lost. This seems the most plausible reason why the Vedas include
concealed information on the accurate timing of the month and year, and
the timing of precession of the equinoxes at just under 72 years per
degree. Finding such hidden possibilities is important in shifting
assumptions about western superiority, origins and timing. It appears
that the Indian origins of the Vedas were in oral traditions that are
many thousands of years older than is often assumed.
The racist claim
from the colonial era that all Indian knowledge actually came from
Europe continues to exert a surprisingly widespread and baleful
influence which this book helps to overcome. Other excellent books
which also help to destroy this persistent pernicious myth of western
origins of science include Black Athena by Martin Bernal, on the eastern
roots of western thought, and The Memory Code by Lynne Kelly, which
demonstrates that this Vedic camouflage method of transmitting important
knowledge is actually universal among pre-literate societies.
It is a matter of astronomical fact that the cycle of time establishes
twelve zodiacal ages in the Great Year. There are numerous references to
the Great Year throughout the Bible. The twelve foundation stones of
the holy city are the twelve Aeons, Christ as Alpha and Omega is the
turning point of time between two Great Years, the end of the Aeon or
Age discussed by Christ is the end of the Age of Pisces, and the various
fish and lamb symbols indicate the natural temporal shift of the sun
from the Age of Aries (the lamb) to the Age of Pisces (the fish) at the
time of Christ. Murdock comments that rather than being a real person,
Jesus Christ symbolizes the mythical avatar of the Piscean Age (p457).
Such
ideas were viewed by the church as heresy. The Gnostics were condemned
for seeking to explain in natural terms how eternal truth could be
manifest in human life. Their cosmic framework of twelve ages, with
Christ symbolizing the turning point of time, provided a purely
empirical explanation for Jesus as a symbol of the connection between
humanity and eternity. Precession explains how our planet is evolving
against what Ezekiel called the `wheels within wheels' of the cosmos and
what Plato, in the Timaeus, called the relation between the same (the
cosmos) and the different (the solar system) (p227). This Gnostic
heresy of the twelve ages provides an accurate scientific basis to
understand the real nature of Christ.
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