(Continued from the previous post.
The original post in Tamil can be read here :-http://thamizhan-thiravidana.blogspot.in/2012/08/103.html
Translated into English by Ms Shantha )
The star has much significance in the Christian and Jewish Religions. Following in the footsteps of these religions, the star ideogram plays a significant role in Islam as well. One may speculate that this importance of the star began with human kind's curiosity about these celestial bodies based on their daily observations. Then, this raises a question that if that were so, why such ideograms were not found in the Indus Valley Civilization. The explorers of the Indus Valley Civilization mostly belonged to religions mentioned above. Perhaps, it is due to this reason that they continue to look for the star in the Indus Valley Civilization and 'invent' stars where they are not present.
Fish is a common symbol found in several Indus Valley seals. The Indus researchers connect the fish symbol to 'star'. To justify this, they quote the Tamil language where "meen" means fish as well as star. "VinnMeen" means fish of the sky, that is, the star. (They claim that the IVC fish seals are symbols of stars or planets that swim in the ocean of outer space.) Based on this they claim that Indus people were Tamils!
Fig 1
First of all, how can we say that these IVC fish symbols denote the Tamil "Meen"? In Sanskrit too, "Meena" is fish. The Moon sign Pisces is called as "Meena Rasi" in Sanskrit. "Meen" is fish in both Tamil and Sanskrit. Is it correct then, to say that the IVC fish is the Tamil "Meen" and hence the Indus Valley people were the Tamil people or Dravidians?
Is it not incorrect to jump to conclusions that the fish seal denotes the Tamil word without proper consideration for the usage of this word in Sanskrit or of its usage in a particular context?
Incidentally, some of these IVC seals were found in parts of what is now Rajasthan which used to be called as "Matsya Desh" (Matsya in Sanskrit means fish). In the past, when monarchies existed in this country, each princely state or dynasty had royal emblems of their own. Single fish, double fishes etc. have been portrayed in royal emblems as well as in Ashtamangala insignia (Eight Auspicious Signs such as conch, fish, parasol, victory banner, mirror etc.). The fish was considered as a religious icon both in Buddhism and Jainism. The Fish Symbol as an image or symbolic representation with sacred significance was an idea present in India and borrowed by Christianity. We'll look into that later.
The matter under discussion now is that it is incorrect to conclude that the fish symbol found in the IVC seals denotes the Tamil "Meen". This appears to be a hypothesis that was concocted purely to support the pre-conceived notion of the Aryan-Dravidian conflict. Moreover, contriving to find associations between the word "Meen" and the star, smacks of the influence of the star of Abrahamic religions.
Actually, there are other instances where association with the Tamil word "Meen" seems to carry more weight. One of them is Meenas or Mina, a community that lives in the Aravalli mountain ranges of Rajasthan. The other one is Minoa, the name of a civilization that flourished in bronze-age settlements 5000 years ago in the Aegean coasts. Archeological evidence for these settlements has been found in the Mediterranean island of Crete that presents evidence for their antiquity. Why not investigate the connections between this Minoans and the Aravalli Minas and the Tamil "Meen"?
We shall investigate this later on because there is something that is intriguingly common between them. Both the Meenas and the Minoans lived on top of mountains. The Meenas still do. The lifestyle of the Meenas seems similar to the lifestyle of the Tamil people of the Kurinji landscapes (mountainous forests). Sub sects of the Sangam Era Tamil population were formed based on specific professions in each of the five landscapes - Kurinji, Mullai, Marutam, Neithal and Palai. The Kurinji people were mountain tribes or people dependent on the mountains for their living. The Aravalli Mountain is part of the range of mountains that starts at the Maldives, continues underwater as the Lakshadweep ridge and runs through the Indian state of Rajasthan.
Fig 2
Several portions of this mountain range had been above sea level until about 3000 years ago. Some of the "Seven Hill Countries" of the ancient Thennan (ancient Pandyan) country were in this Aravalli mountain range scattered over the seas. These hill regions were known as Kundra naadu during the 2nd sangam period before sub-mergence. During the 3rd sangam period the hilly terrain came to be called as Kurunji
Surrounded by seas, these hill-country people made the mountain-tops their home for protection. Naturally, fishing had been one of their main occupations due to their proximity to seas. There was no separate clan for the Neithal people (sea-farers, or people dependent on seas) in the sub-merged Thennan's country. Both the mountain tribes and the people living near the coasts were probably engaged in the occupation of fishing. If one were to probe into the similarities between the lifestyles of these Kundra malai people (and the Minas of the Aravalli ranges in Rajasthan, it will yield plenty of surprises.
Likewise, the Minoans (which phonetically sounds similar to Mina) had lived in the Island of Crete at least 3000 ago. The similarity does not end in the name but is also in the type of landscape both these people lived. The information that similar to the Minas, the Minoans lived in inaccessible places on mountain tops, is indeed intriguing and calls for more research. More investigation into this yields surprising information about the Minoan culture that seems to have had commonalities with the Indian culture. This will be discussed in a separate post. Let us just show one instance of this to whet the reader's interest.
Several Minoan artefacts have been found. They look as below.
Fig 3
This is a well-decorated figurine of a woman. But the cylindrical shape below the waist indicates that it is a doll. Hands are lifted and pointing above. Other figurines give the same pose.
This figurine reminds us of a Tanjore doll, (a type of traditional Indian bobble-head toy made of terracotta). These puppets are manipulated with strings by the puppeteer. Hence, most of these dolls are usually portrayed with their hands up.
Here are some samples of Indian puppets.
Fig 4a
When we see these, it becomes clear that more research into the Minoans is needed. Thus, when there are many such intriguing associations between cultures which really warrant more investigation, jumping to conclusions that the IVC fish seal represents a star and not just what it is (namely, fish), shows a mentality of pre-conceived notion in research.
We cannot censure this attitude completely, either. The Bible mentions that a star heralded the birth of Christ and to guide the way for the astrologers to him. The Christians have used the star ideogram for their symbolisms and have several such stars in their religion. Starting with the 4-pointed star that decorates the Christmas tree, they have the five-pointed star associated with the birth of Christ, then the Star of David, a six-pointed star formed by two interlocking triangles, the eight-pointed star for representing baptism, nine-pointed star and 12-point star and so forth.
All these stars became Christian religious symbols and have been around within a span of 500 to 1000 years only. The Christian star ideogram gained significance because of the 6-pointed star that had found significance in the Celtic Nations over 1000 years ago. The Jewish Star of David that is a symbol of Judaism which is mentioned in the Jewish Bible was the precursor to this star. The shape of that star is as shown below:
Fig 5
A yellow-colored Star of David was used by the Nazi Hitler to force the Jews, who he hated, into wearing and displaying it during the Holocaust for identifying them.
Fig 6
The Europeans appear to be ambiguous about this star symbol for more than a thousand years.
The Star of David, known in Hebrew as the Shield of David was used as Jewish protective amulets. Over 1000 years ago, this star symbol represented the Planet Saturn and people wore them as talisman. But this star symbol was used for occult practices and by alchemists and sorcerers in those days. Planet Saturn became Satan. The notion that this hexagram shape of the star with its 6,6,6 sides is the representation of Satan as 666, arose.
Fig 7
It was around this time, charges arose against the so-called Satan-worshippers; several thousands were executed for practicing witch-craft. Several ancient, pagan rites and rituals that had been in practice until then were put to an end. Also, countless people whose opinions were at variance with the Orthodox beliefs about Planets and the Chruch-held view that the sun went around the earth were suspected of heresy and relentlessly executed. All of this was committed in the name of Christianity. Despite all of this, the Christians were unwilling to give up on the star. Since the 6-pointed Star of David was already a Jewish symbol and was considered as a satanic symbol, they decided to adopt a different star, a 5-pointed star that was in vogue then, as the Star of Bethlehem that heralded the Christ's birth.
The Star of Bethlehem is shown in picture below:
Fig 8
The reason this was brought up here is to show that this Star of Bethlehem is the same star found in the icon over the head of Cernunnos, with its inscription in the language of Thebes.
Fig 9
Infact, references to the Star of Bethlehem are found in Jewish religious texts. The Star Prophecy is a text from the Book of Numbers, one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. This book has prophecies about the arrival of a deliverer associated with the arrival of a star. (There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.)
This message was popularized by Jewish religious leaders over 2000 years ago during their troubled times when the Jewish temples were destroyed and the Jews went through lots of persecution, to give them a ray of hope to withstand such persecution. Here, the star represents the star of hope.
However, this star symbol was adopted for the Christ and Christianity that came into existence as a separate religion, many hundred years after his birth. The Christian missionaries popularized this 5-pointed star. Consequently, they also invented several meanings regarding the 5-points of the star. We should bear in mind, however, that the origins of the significance of the star, is in the Jewish religion.
In retrospection, it seems that the Jewish star prophecies regarding a deliverer did not come to be. It seems that a Star of hope or the coming of a deliverer did not happen. But unfortunately, the Star of David that they had been wearing until then, started to get associated with the nefarious Satan and witchcraft. The situation escalated to a level where people wearing this star were associated with occult.
Investigations about the Jewish Star of David show that it was worn as a sort of talisman, a protective charm associated with Planet Saturn. What is the association between this hexagram-shaped star and the Planet Saturn? Where did they get this idea about this association? When we pose these questions, we find the answers with links to the Vedic culture.
Of the four Vedas, the first three (Rig, Yajur and Sama Veda) are based on mantras. A Mantra is a set of words used in a specific configuration and chanted with a specific rhythm and tone to get desired results. Mantras can be used to get Astrological and Spiritual benefits. The fourth Veda, The Atharva Veda, is based on Yantras and Tantras. A Yantra is a device designed to get some specific results. Astrological and Spiritual Yantras are made to get benefits from them. Tantra means a system to do a specific set of things in a specific order to get a specific result. Astrologers also make use of Yantras to get specific benefits for a specific person by doing a specific set of things. The Atharva Veda consists of spells and incantations, concerned with protection against demons and disaster with consecrated talisman or amulet etc. The symbols and devices that are the basis of Yantra are described in this Veda. The often used symbols therein are in the shape of stars made of triangles !
Even though there are several star ideograms in the Vedic Religion, these are generally not sculpted in stone or displayed in public places. They are not worn as talisman around the neck either. These symbols are considered sacred, treated with reverence and worshipped only in private or in prayer halls. Nowhere in India can this sacred star symbol be seen displayed in public places. They can only be seen in the Yantra plates that are worshipped in private. This is the main reason for the absence of the star in IVC artefacts.
Each star shape or star formation has a unique purpose. These star shapes are consecrated and energized with Mantras specific to that shape. The act of consecration was aimed at energizing the device (Yantra) for achieving a specific goal such as personal protection, destruction of enemies or the acquisition of a desired object. Such powers to energize the yantras were earned through yogic practices. The basis of most of such Yantras was the hexagram (6-pointed) star. In particular, the god of Planet Saturn (Śani) was worshipped only with this hexagram shaped Yantra device.
The image of the Saturn God worshiped in a temple in a place called as Erikkuppam in the district of Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu can be shown as an example for the above. The 6-pointed star is found sculpted on this image.
Fig 10
This triangular shape is neither a mere coincidence nor the fruits of fertile but futile imagination. With the advances in science at present times, the scientific facts are in concurrence with this ideogram.
The planet Saturn is the sixth from the sun in the Solar system. The link between the number '666' and Saturn can be seen in the North Pole of this planet. The images of Saturn, sent by the Cassini spacecraft now orbiting the planet, bears intriguing resemblances to the Saturn Yantras used from times of yore in India. Cassini has sent pictures of this odd six-sided star shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn that is formed as the planet goes through seasonal shifts.
Below is an image from Cassini of the bizarre hexagon shape on Saturn's North Pole.
Fig 11
The shape in the center is a hexagram, a 6-sided shape. If one were to draw lines connecting the 6 corners of the hexagram, it will turn up as a 6-pointed star. The picture below shows the star, thus drawn over the hexagram on Saturn's North Pole.
Fig 12
When we look at this picture, we must concur that the Vedic forerunners had designed the Saturn Yantra very accurately indeed. In India, we find the Yantras in this shape in the temples of the Saturn God. The association between the planet god Saturn and the star has its origins in India and the same star has subsequently become a religious symbol for worship. Only the people of India know how to form this star shape in a prescribed manner and how to energize them.
It is only within a span of 1000 to 2000 years before present that this star came to be known as the Star of David by the Jews with links to Saturn. We find evidence in our ancient astrological texts that much earlier than that, the worship of this star in association with the Planet Saturn has been in practice in India. There can be no two different opinions regarding where this idea originated from and from whence it propagated.
Indian society and culture has always been an open book. Mlecchas (those who did not live by Vedic system – the people who lived to the west and north west of Indian sub continent beyond the river Indus were called as Mlecchas.) had been visitors to India since days of yore. Sage Valmiki mentions in his Ramayana that Mleccha (foreign) kings attended the Putrakaameshti Yagna (Sacrifice conducted to obtain sons) performed by King Dasharatha.
1500 years ago, Varahamihira (famous astrologer) said that noble thoughts, even if they come from foreign lands, should be embraced. Sage Yavana , Sage Romaka (of The Romaka Siddhanta, literally "Doctrine of the Romans", an Indian astronomical treatise) and Sage Poulisa were all scholars and intellectuals from foreign lands (Greece and Central Europe). We saw earlier in the 56th post that among these sages, Sage Romaka was considered one among the Siddhas (enlightened souls) revered by the Tamil people. We see from these examples export of Vedic beliefs and thoughts through these sages to foreign lands.
Moreover, Takshashila (Taxilla, now in Pakistan) which was considered to be amongst the earliest universities in the world, existed 2700 years ago in the Indian sub-continent. We discussed about this in the 13th and 34th posts.
Fig 13
The Vedas, languages, grammar, philosophy, medicine, surgery, archery, politics, warfare, astronomy, accounts, commerce, documentation, music, dance and other performing arts that were included in the 64 types of arts and complex mathematical calculations were among the several subjects taught at this university. At one stage, it had 1000s of students including those from Europe, Babylon, Greece, Syria, and China. Vedic knowledge had indeed spread through these students into Europe more than 2000 years ago.
In fact, what do we find in the Bible? That three wise, distinguished men from the east came to visit the newborn Jesus. Traditionally the view is that they were Babylonians (from present day Iraq), Persians (from present day Iran), or Jews from Sumeria (from present day Yemen). For the scholars and sages who lived in these ancient lands, Takshashila had been a popular place for learning and acquiring knowledge. (Translator adds:- There is also an Armenian tradition identifying the 'Magi of Bethlehem' as Balthasar of Arabia, Melchior of Persia and Gaspar of India. Some historians also support a tradition in the ancient Silk Road city of Taxilla that one of the Magi passed through the city on the way to Bethlehem.)
(Writer adds:- Magi – Maga – Magadha seem to have a correlation. The Maga Brahmins were the there in olden and now submerged Shaka Dweepa (fig 2) which was identified in my Tamil series as being extended upto Sundaland in the Indian Ocean. This identification was done based on description of Shaka Dweepa in Mahabharata, Bheeshma parva, 6th and 11th chapters. Periodic submergences led to shift of Maga and other people to what is Indian Sun-continent today. The entry was through Arabian sea and Dwaraka into river Saraswathy at the end of Ice age. There is a probability that another group entered through Persian Gulf which was until then a landed area.
In this figure the region within the red border was highland during Ice age.
When water level rose in the Arabian sea, the floods carried one group through the river Saraswathy while another group was pushed into the Persian Gulf. Figure below:-
This entry and divergence could have happened at the end of Ice age (13,500 years ago) when Persian gulf was inundated from Arabian sea. Even today there are Maga Brahmins in India. Only the Maga Brahmins had the wherewithal and rights to consecrate Sun God and conduct worship of Sun God – according to Varahamihira. Maga Brahmins are also known to be experts in astrology. The Magas were known for singing in praise of the king whose equivalent was Porunar in sangam age of Tholkaappiyam, thereby showing their previous existence somewhere in the islands of Indian Ocean. A further probe takes the Shaka link to South Africa in pre-historic times.
The Magas were called as Maagadha and were settled in Magadha (Bihar) by Prithu, the first king who introduced cultivation as per Mahabharatah and Vishnu Purana accounts. )
From the Indian sub-continent, the ideogram of the 6-pointed star and its association with the planet Saturn had easily spread to the European and Arabic nations. Even their names bear resemblances to Indian names. For example, consider the name 'David' in the Star of David. This was derived from Doab, which became Davood and then David.
Doab (Do Aab in Sanskrit, a region between two rivers) refers to the Indus valley river basin region between the two rivers, Sindhu and the upper reaches of Ganges-Yamuna Doab. Takshashila (Taxila) is situated in a Doab. The people who live in these regions will also carry the name Doab. This is because in Indian culture there is the habit of giving names of places to people where they hail from. When Muhammad of Ghazni invaded India, the Hindu king who opposed him at Lahore was called as Davood. We think that 'Davood' is a Moslem name. We believe that this name first came to India with the Mughals. But the fact is, much before the entry of Mughals into India, Hindus had borne this name.
A person living in the Doab region bore the name 'Doab'. This name did not come into India from Arabia or from the Mughals. It went from here to there.
How did it get over there?
People must have gone from here to there.
Or, people who visited India from there – especially those who trained at the schools in the Doab region – went back bearing the name.
Doab became David.
This is not an arbitrary speculation.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, when the British colonized India and employed their officers in administrative services here, these officers were surprised to note striking similarities in the names of the native people and places with Jewish names. One among them, GODFREY HIGGINS, a historian, started to inquire into this matter. Based upon his research he concluded that several European and Jewish practices and beliefs had their origins in India. His findings were published as a two-volume treatise called as ANACALYPSIS. Among the many theories presented in this book is one which says that both the Celts and the Jews originated in India.
That book has been suppressed deliberately.
In this day, with vast advances in science and technology which has made possible genetic ancestry analysis, research into the ancestry of Jewish populations lead their origins to Iran and Iraq of 3000 years ago.
But then, what was their genetic ancestry prior to 3000 years?
Where were their ancestors 3000 years back?
There is much reluctance and disinclination to probe into this.
The reason for this is the research will lead a trail back to India.
Till this date, there is much unwillingness to accept that it is from India that the export of people and knowledge began.
Even when they became aware of it as early as the 18th century through the works of historians such as Higgins, the facts were willfully concealed.
Instead, the completely ridiculous Aryan-Dravidian myth was intentionally developed and propagated.
Using this strategy, the British colonized and ruled India and sowed the seeds for Christianity here.
Let us turn our attention back to the main purpose of our discussions.
The Star of David takes us to the Pentacle of Solomon. This is also an amulet used in magical evocation, on which the symbol of a spirit or energy being evoked is drawn. It is often worn around the neck, or placed within the triangle of evocation.
We can see the 5-pointed star in Solomon's Pentacle in picture below:
Fig 14
This was also known as the Key of Solomon.
Fig 15
What does this key open? They do not know the answer to this riddle.
To solve that riddle, one must come to India. India happens to have the key to solve that riddle. It can be depicted as below:
Fig 16
This picture depicts Planet Rahu's orbital path. Rahu moves in the direction of the arrows as shown above. Rahu is one of the nine planets in Vedic astrology. The North Node of Chandra (Moon) is called Rahu in Hindu astrology. Rahu is not a physical Planet but is referred to as Chaya Graha (Shadow planet). Rahu is the northern point where the path of the earth around the sun cuts the path of the moon. This path of Rahu is described in Vaasthu Sastra (a branch of science in the Atharva Veda which deals with places and landscapes). Herein it is said that this path moves in one direction on each day of the week. Thus it moves in 7 different directions in a week and on the 8th day returns to the starting point. That is, starting on Sunday, it moves in each direction for each day of the week. The pentacle that is obtained by joining these points or nodes is the Pentacle of Solomon or the Key of Solomon.
The key to the riddle is that, for any particular day, depending on the direction that Rahu is in on that day, the earth will not be dug in that particular direction for any reason. It was believed that the efforts will become fruitless if the land is dug in that direction. For instance, if the earth was dug in that direction to sow a seed, the tree will not grow or will become useless. If the earth was excavated to build a home, the house will not flourish. In this manner, people carefully chose the day and direction for laying foundations for a building or for beginning seasonal cultivation.
This age-old knowledge was in practice in India until as recent as the last century. Until the British messed up with the indigenous practices of the rural India, the farmers and builders in India were following this principle of Rahu. In agricultural lands, this knowledge was meticulously applied before digging the earth to sow seeds. Additionally, they used the help of the Rahu Pani chakra (Rahu's wheel). The pictorial representation of this Rahu's path must have been taken back home by some David (someone who learned in Doab) from India and that became the Key of Solomon or David's Pentacle. The mystery that is solved by this key is to know when to dig the earth on any given day for successful raising of the crops. This key had the application agriculture for which Saturn is the signifactor in Vedic astrology. The Jews worshipped this Key of Solomon as sacred. However, they did not invent this concept.
(The belief that the Planet Saturn is the God of Agriculture exists only in India. It is an astrological concept prevalent even now in India that the day of Saturn is ideal for sowing seeds and for buying agricultural implements. It is for the reason that Saturn symbolizes works in immovable land, that Saturday is known as Sthira vasara (fixed day) in Sanskrit.)
Travelling further back in time, our search takes us to Egypt. Circa 922 BC., King Solomon married an Egyptian princess. He obtained the 6-point star from the Egyptians. UNIVERSAL JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA confirms this.
3000 years back, the history of the early Jews and their neighbors begins with their quest for a homeland. The ancient seat of culture in Egypt was well advanced during those times. Agriculture and farming was practiced there. The star ideogram was already present there. That was a 5-point star. It looked like this:
Fig 17
The Star of Bethlehem also called the Christmas Star that revealed the birth of Jesus to the Magi and later led them to Bethlehem was inherited from the Jews by the Christians. This was actually an ideogram that was not invented by the Jews. The Jews acquired the star from the Egyptians.
This star was portrayed over people's head in ancient Egyptian pictures.
See Picture below:
Fig 18
We saw earlier the icon of Cernunnos with an inscription in the language of Thebes. Let us recall now that the 5-point star was placed over his head.
Fig 19
The original Thebes is the Greek name for a city in Ancient Egypt located about 800 km south of the Mediterranean, on the east bank of the river Nile.
Fig 20
The red dot on map below shows the location of Thebes on the banks of river Nile.
Thebes was founded and inhabited around 3200 BC, i.e., more than 5000 years before present. That is, this city was inhabited around the same time as what we now say as the beginning of the Indus Valley civilization. We learn from Greek literature that this was originally called as Tape which became Thebes over time. The Sanskrit word 'Tapas' (meditation) became 'Thebes'.
The Temple of Karnak was built in this city and dedicated to the Sun god. The name Karnak sounds familiar to Indians.
There is a city called Karnal in the Indian state of Haryana (IVC region).
Karnal was founded by the Kauravas in the Mahabharata era for the king Karna, a hero and a key figure in the epic tale.
Karna was born of Surya (Solar deity).
He worshiped the sun.
This warrior died a heroic death in the Mahabharata war at Kurukshetra.
Of his nine sons, only one survived the Kurukshetra war, and his name was Vrishakethu.
We learn from the Mahabharatha that after the war, Vrishakethu came under the patronage of the Pandavas. Vrishakethu married the daughter of king Yavanatha, a king in the west. From the word 'Yavana' in his name we can surmise that he was a 'Yavana' who were considered as Mlecchas (foreigners). These Yavanas were people who did not follow the Vedic Religion and were not accommodated in India. Hence, probably, this Vrishakethu moved out of India along with his family and followers and settled elsewhere. It is possible that he settled in Egypt.
If this was not so, then how is it that we find so much significance for the sun in the ancient Egyptian culture? Why was the Temple for Sun God in Egypt called as Karnak? Efforts to trace the etymology of the name Karnak in any language has not been of any avail. But only in India we find a link to this name and the Sun God.
Karnark can be split as Karna – arka. Arka is the Sanskrit name for Sun! Karnak is Karna's arka or the Sun of Karna. Vrishketu, Karna's son had moved to Thebes and established Karnak, the temple for Sun in memory of this father. More on this connection will be detailed in another post.
Let's focus our attentions on the 5-pointed star for now.
The people who migrated along with Vrishakethu were from the Indus Valley cultures. This is because, Karnal, Vrishakethu's father Karna's city, existed in this region. In those days, the practice of yogic meditation was very much prevalent. Even as late as the Hellenistic period (350-290 BCE) there was a prevalence of yogis and Siddhas throughout India according to Megasthenes a Greek ethnographer and explorer, author of the work Indica. One can imagine how many more must have been engaged in yogic practices 5000 years ago? We see evidence for this in the IVC seal of a yogi engaged in awakening the Kundalini.
Fig 21
We see this attainment of an elevated spiritual level in the icon of Cernunnos with the 5-point star.
Fig 22
This star over the head of Cernunnos bearing an inscription in the language of the Egyptian Thebes is the ideogram worshipped by the devotees of Kali - the Hindu goddess associated with empowerment or Śakti.
Fig 23
Indeed, the yantra representing the Śyama form of Kali is a 5-point star. Śyama means dark. Kali also means the same.
The picture of the Śyama Kali Yantra is shown below.
Fig 24
The Egyptian five-pointed star over peoples' heads as portrayed in their ancient drawings is the ideogram for Śyama Kali and we can surmise that yogis who meditated on Kali had lived there. 'Thebes' that is phonetically similar to 'Tapas' (meditation) was given the name due to this reason. The king who ruled with Thebes as his capital, must have been a worshipper of the Sun God and had built a temple for the deity and called it Karnak (after Karna of Mahabharata who was born to Sun God and was an ardent worshiper of Sun God) .
The symbolism of the 5-point star over the Kali worshipper's head had been around in Egypt for a very long time. When this symbol was adopted by the Jews, the original significance of the star slowly disappeared. The reason for this is, only in India the underlying significance behind ideograms and symbolisms have been meticulously adhered to and transferred from generation to generation without ever getting lost over time. This is not the case in other countries.
Once again, neither are the star symbolisms futile inventions of fertile imagination. These represent energy waves present in nature and the Vedic people had the knowledge about how such energy can be acquired through yoga, tapas , yantra, mantra etc. and put them to use. These ideas did spread from their Vedic origins to other countries. However, in those countries, they were not carefully preserved and propagated over generations. Hence, the original ideas soon degraded to a level that they became associated with occult, witchcraft etc.
What they consider as occult symbols are worshipped as sacred yantra devices in our temples (in India). While this is so, where from did this knowledge and ideogram about the stars originate? Can there be any doubts that it originated from India and was propagated from here? These symbols have travelled as far as Egypt even as early as 5000 years back. If that is the case, then can there be any uncertainty that even much earlier than the IVC era, a highly evolved and advanced Vedic culture had flourished in India?
Before we discuss more about this, there is one more piece of information that must be shared. This 5-point star has appeared suddenly, overnight, out of nowhere as crop circles in cultivated lands. One such crop circle that turned up in South England in 1993 looks similar to the Śyama Kali Yantra.
Fig 25
How is this possible? How is it that the Śyama Kali who is worshipped in the Yantras in Vedic traditions, appears in countries which neither believes in any of this nor worships her?
If we searched for answers for the above questions, we will learn about a mystery connected to India in this regard. We will learn that the mystery lies in the triangular shape of that symbol. Armed with that knowledge, we shall revisit Thebes and find out how the symbol of the cross went over to Europe to the Christians via Karna's descendents. At the same time, we'll see how the same cross went over to Europe via India as well and was transfigured there.
The basis for all of this research is the Indus Valley seals. The seals show that the Aryans did not migrate from Europe to India. On the other hand, we find from them that 'Aryanism' was actually exported from here to there (from India to out side), some lost on the way and the rest transformed over time. Based on the scraps of 'Aryan' evidence discovered there in Europe, if one concluded that Aryans migrated from there to India, nothing can be more preposterous than that.
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