Sarasvati Empire

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Dear Mani,

I hope this note finds you well and content.

I have addressed this post to you as you are a learned and well travelled

gentleman, and appear to enjoy discussion on a variety of subjects.

Are you familiar with the Gundestrup Cauldron?. It is housed at the

National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. It is dated at approx 55AD-1st

Century BC.It depicts Celtic Dieties, animals and mythical scenes. The

cauldron consists of seven outer and five inner plates, plus a base plate.

It caught my eye as I was flicking through a book on ancient Celtic Art.

The detail from an inner plate of Cernunnos, the antlered god, was of

particular interest to me as I noticed a striking likeness in expression,

shape, height, width and pose to an image on a clay fragment found at the

Indus Valley digs.(I can't remember if it was Mohenjo-daro or Harappa).

The similarities appear to be exact. If indeed this is the case, the

significance is profound; socially, culturally and astronomically.(more on

that later!).

Of course my 'theories' may not stand academic scrutiny as they are

merely a collection of disparate clues and coincidences, which I am happy to

share for the sake of level headed discussion.

Warm Regards,

Ann.

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Ann Murphy wrote:

 

> Are you familiar with the Gundestrup Cauldron?. It is housed at the

> National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.

 

> It caught my eye as I was flicking through a book on ancient Celtic Art.

> The detail from an inner plate of Cernunnos, the antlered god, was of

> particular interest to me as I noticed a striking likeness in expression,

> shape, height, width and pose to an image on a clay fragment found at the

> Indus Valley digs.(I can't remember if it was Mohenjo-daro or Harappa).

> The similarities appear to be exact. If indeed this is the case, the

> significance is profound; socially, culturally and astronomically.(more on

> that later!).

> Of course my 'theories' may not stand academic scrutiny as they are

> merely a collection of disparate clues and coincidences, which I am happy to

> share for the sake of level headed discussion.

 

Dear Ann,

 

Perhaps we should discuss this directly, not on the list.

 

It is interesting that you suddenly write about Celtic culture: only 3 days ago

a group of young people played Celtic music at our local church! It was 2 hours

of pure joy! At times the music sounded like South Indian.

 

The Celts were an Indo-Germanic people and their priests, the Druids,had the

same status as brahmins. Very little is known about their religion openly, but

apparently the Rosicrucians still possess this knowledge. It seems to have been

a kind of Vedic religion. A tree was certainly an important factor - ash or oak:

Dru-id is probably derived from Dru = tree in Indo-germanic and sanskrit. The

people of the Indus culture also venerated a tree, as their relgious depictions

show! They are called "Dravidians" ... or was it "Druidian"? The history of man

has to be completely revised!

 

regards

Mani