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Re: *SIVA*
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Subject: Re: *SIVA*
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From: pateld@cs.man.ac.uk (delash)
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Date: 30 Oct 1995 20:34:00 GMT
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Approved: srh <srh@rbhatnagar>
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Article: 469 of soc.religion.hindu
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Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
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Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.
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References: <43t2f1$cp4@babbage.ece.uc.edu> <441e5e$fd8@babbage.ece.uc.edu> <44qkk8$fe9@babbage.ece.uc.edu> <45k5le$j00@babbage.ece.uc.edu> <45v031$t3i@babbage.ece.uc.edu> <46meko$dj0@babbage.ece.uc.edu>
In article <46meko$dj0@babbage.ece.uc.edu>, swett@interramp.com (Charles Swett)
writes:
|> One of the things that I find most fascinating about the cult of Shiva
|> is its earliest history, about which almost nothing is known.
|> Accordingto Alain Danielou, the earliest recorded archeological
|> evidence is a seated figure meditating, located at the excavation of
|> Mohenjo Daro, and dated to about 6000 B.C. Danielou also said that
|> Shivaism was an indigenous religion in India long before the Aryan
|> invasion, although there seems to be some disagreement about this.
OH PLEASE!
Aryan Invasion.....
IN MY NIGHTMARES MATE.
It was all Nazi Propaganda. Discard it and look into your heart. We are
all one.
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|> The predecessor identities of Shiva are given variously as Rudra, Lord
|> of the Animals; Murugan; and "Ahn," in what Danielou calls a
|> "now-forgotten language." In his book While the Gods Dance, Danielou
|> alleges that there is evidence from celestial observations recorded in
|> ancient hymns that worshippers of Shiva existed as early as... 55,000
|> B.C.! Also that they may have been around at the time of the ending
|> of the last Ice Age.
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|> Does anyone have any more information?
I found a GREAT Siva site...but it's locked away in my bookmarks.
I'll place it in my Home Site....Visit it....
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delash "http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~pateld"
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