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Early and influential work in the area that set the trend for Hindu interpretations of archaeological evidence from the Harappan sites was that of John Marshall, [8] who in 1931 identified the following as prominent features of the Indus religion: a Great Male God and a Mother Goddess; deification or veneration of animals and plants; a symbolic representation of the phallus and vulva; and, use ...
The objects and images found suggest that the goddess cults of Indus valley civilization were associated with fertility. [13] [16] [17] A seal shows a male figure standing over a seated female figure with a sickle. It probably suggests an association between the female figure and crops, and possibly implies a ritual sacrifice where the blood of ...
Shaktism is a goddess-centric tradition of Hinduism, [55] involving many goddesses, all being regarded as various aspects, manifestations, or personifications of the same supreme goddess Shakti. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] Shaktas approach the Devi in many forms; however, they are all considered to be but diverse aspects of the one supreme goddess.
Along with Lakshmi (goddess of wealth and prosperity) and Saraswati (goddess of knowledge and learning), she forms the trinity of Hindu goddesses. [29] Parvati is married to Shiva – the destroyer, recycler, and regenerator of the universe and all life. [30] She is the mother of Hindu gods Ganesha and Kartikeya. [31] Her parents are Himavan ...
Female figure, possibly fertility goddess, from the Indus Valley civilization. Generally the traditions of village deity tradition or Grama Devta tradition predate the arrival of Indo-Aryans. The earliest evidence found in the Indus Valley Civilization were Mother Goddesses associated with fertility and motherhood there the mother goddess ...
Icons of Lajja Gauri have been found in different villages, and local people identify her with other goddesses such as Aditi, Adya Shakti, Renuka and Yallamma. [5] A notable sculpture of her dating to 150-300 CE was found at Amravati (now kept at State Museum, Chennai), [6] Tribal areas of Central India, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, where the town of Badami, known for the Badami Cave Temples ...
The colonial era archaeologists John Marshall and Ernest Mackay proposed that certain polished stones with holes found at Harappan sites may be evidence of yoni-linga worship in Indus Valley Civilization. [31] Scholars such as Arthur Llewellyn Basham dispute whether such artifacts discovered at the archaeological sites of Indus Valley sites are ...
Evidence of Durga-like images can probably be traced back to the Indus Valley civilisation. According to Asko Parpola, a cylindrical seal from Kalibangan shows "a Durgā-like goddess of war, who is associated with the tiger". [36] [37]