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Indians | Ep 1: The Harappans | A Brief History of a Civilization
(The Wire) The story of India is one of profound and continuous change. It has been shaped by the dynamic of migration, conflict, mixing, coexistence, and cooperation.
In this 10-part web series, Namit Arora tells the story of Indians and our civilization by exploring some of our greatest historical sites, most of which were lost to memory and were dug out by archeologists.
He will also focus on ancient and medieval foreign travelers whose idiosyncratic accounts conceal surprising insights about us Indians.
All along, Arora surveys India’s long and exciting churn of cultural ideas, beliefs, and values — some that still shape us today, and others that have been lost forever.
The series mostly mirrors — and often extends — the contents of his book, Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization. The bibliography appears below.
Episode 1: The Harappans
The ruins of the Harappan (aka Indus Valley) Civilization were unearthed a mere 100 years ago. And what a discovery it was!
It greatly expanded India's civilizational past. The Harappans built the first cities in the Indian Subcontinent and a material culture that included advanced urban design, city-wide sanitation, and the first indoor toilets in the world.
In this episode, Namit Arora explores its mature period, 2600–1900 BCE, at sites across western [Proto-]India and Pakistan.
He compares it with other Bronze Age civilizations in Mesopotamia and Egypt and considers what distinguishes the Harappans from others — such as a much flatter social class hierarchy and no clear evidence of temples, priests, big statues, palaces, weapons of war, or standing armies.
He looks at Harappan lifestyles and the stories that emerge from surviving artifacts: pottery, seals, figurines, toys, jewelry, sartorial fashions, social organization, dietary norms and discusses their metallurgy, tools, textiles, ships, trade, and burial customs.
Their monumental work was the city itself, a marvel of engineering. In the excavated city of Dholavira in Gujarat, the narrator wanders its streets and homes laid out on a grid-like plan and looks at their achievements in water harvesting, storage, and drainage systems, as well as what may be the first stadium anywhere in the world!
Arora also examines the languages the Harappans likely spoke, their undeciphered script, theories about their demise, and how their legacy still shapes us today.
PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY/FURTHER READING
Abraham S., et al (editors), Connections and Complexity, New Approaches to the Archaeology of South Asia, Left Coast Press, 2012
Bisht, R.S., Excavations at Dholavira 1989–2005, ASI, 2015
Bisht, R. S., 'How Harappans honoured death at Dholavira', Proceedings of Conference held at L.M.U, L.A, USA, 2011
Farmer, Steve, et al, The Collapse of the Indus-Script Thesis: The Myth of a Literate Harappan Civilization, Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies (EJVS), Vol. 11, Issue 2, 2004
Green, A.S. Killing the Priest-King: Addressing Egalitarianism in the Indus Civilization, J Archaeol Res 29, 153–202 (2021)
Green, A.S, Why Are Archaeologists Unable To Find Evidence For A Ruling Class Of The Indus Civilization?, Eurasia Review, 23 June 2023
Habib, Irfan, The Indus Civilization, Tulika Books, 2002
Joseph, Tony, Early Indians, Juggernaut, 2018
Kenoyer, J.M., Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, OUP, 1998
McIntosh, Jane R., The Ancient Indus Valley: New Perspectives, ABC-CLIO, 2007
Parpola, Asko, The Roots of Hinduism, OUP, Kindle Edition, 2015
Petrie, Cameron A., et al. ‘Adaptation to Variable Environments, Resilience to Climate Change: Investigating Land, Water and Settlement in Indus Northwest India’, Current Anthropology, 2017
Possehl, Gregory L., The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective, AltaMira, 2002
Robinson, Andrew, The Indus: Lost Civilizations, Reaktion Books, Kindle Edition, 2015
Shinde, Vasant S., et al., Archaeological and anthropological studies on the Harappan cemetery of Rakhigarhi, India, Plos One, February 21, 2018
Thapar, Romila, et al, Which of Us Are Aryans?, Aleph Book Company, 2019
Wright, Rita P. The Ancient Indus: Urbanism, Economy, and Society, Cambridge, 2010
+ Several scholarly articles and notes on Harappa.com
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(Ridddle) June 20, 2023. Hidden civilization of Middle Earth (inside levels of our Hollow Earth) was suddenly found by Admiral Richard Byrd beneath Antarctica, with entrances at both poles, which are obscured by Google Earth and all satellite photos, though some space photos show other planetary bodies with openings.
Honest Rear Admiral Byrd
Admiral Richard E. Byrd was bound to silence about his discovery, but he wrote about the experience in his diary, and his son released the test after the author's passing. One version was heavily redacted by the CIA, FBI, NSA, NSC, and the litany of secret policing organizations that run the world. But it is said that an original unredacted version is also in circulation. It's not Avatar but the subterranean worlds were long ago revealed by Vedic and Hindu texts, which regard the realm of Agartha as "heavenly" planes of great prosperity, longevity, and ease.
There are an inner sun and luminous plants.
This may be the "Middle Country" (Majjhima-desa) of Buddhist lore, where all buddhas are born. There is said to be a passageway to this world under Lhasa, Tibet's Potala Palace (the Vajrayana Buddhist Vatican in the Himalayas). References to Shangri-La and mythical worlds may also have their origins in real places deep inside this hollow planet of ours.
The foremost local expert on this topic is master engineer, speaker, and author Brooks A. Agnew of Pasadena, California. He planned an exploration of Agartha aboard a Russian icebreaker but was frustrated in his attempts to organize expeditions by the US government, which does not want the truth out.
Dark5, March 8, 2023; Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
The giant ancient jars archeologists can't explain
(Dark5 Ancient Mysteries) Laos, a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, is home to one of the most bizarre historical spectacles archeologists have ever laid eyes on.
Spanning hundreds of square kilometers of rugged grassland is the Plain of Jars, so called because of the 3,000 massive, hollow stone vessels scattered across the land -- some weighing up to 30 tons and measuring up to ten feet in height.
The Plain incorporates numerous mountain ridges, forests, and fields north of the Lao capital, Vientiane.
In addition to the local Laotian people, these lands are stalked by tigers and other hidden dangers -- most notably millions of American bombs illegally dropped on Laos (and neighboring Buddhist country Cambodia) during the U.S. War (illegal occupation and "kinetic action") on Vietnam.
The locals have long known about the Plain of Jars, but their relatively recent Western discovery in the early 20th century prompted archeologists to try and solve the puzzle of these mysterious stone vessels.
French archeologists were among the first Westerners to study the jars. One named Henri Parmentier noted that, while most of the jars were empty, some still contained items such as ceramic pots, small weapons, and odd trinkets, including glass beads, bronze jewelry, and children’s teeth.
It was also noted that several contained remnants of human bones.
Close inspection finds a few of the jars adorned with primitive carvings of human faces and figures.
Laying among the monolithic jars are circular disks of stone, presumably lids, which, according to UNESCO, are "also sometimes carved with representations of humans, tigers, or monkeys."
One of the enormous jars features an odd “frogman” carving, a possible reference to -- or relative of -- the frogman painting at Huashan, China, which contains some of the oldest known cave paintings.
Archeologists initially estimated the jars to be some 2,000 years old, which would make them products of the Iron Age. [Of course, they are much older.]
However, a recent study published in 2021 has revealed that they may in fact be more than 3,000 years old.
While their true origins and purpose have baffled many academics, historians, and anthropologists, the locals have their own explanations...
The lovely and massive Buddha statue in Enlightenment Grove, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India.
The oldest settlements in South India: The Keeladi excavations
(Storytrails) Premiered March 6, 2023. CHENNAI (Madras), India - How old are the oldest settlements in South India?
What did the recent excavations at Keeladi (aka Keezhadi) and other places along the Vaigai and Porunai (Thamirabarani) rivers reveal?
For a long time, it was believed that South India had no ancient urban civilizations like in the north [where the Indus Valley Civilization and the Vedic Civilization thrived near Gandhara, now in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which were formerly parts of the Indian Empire].
While the Sangam Period (dated 300 BCE–300 CE) literature talks of a sophisticated Tamilcivilization, there was no concrete archeological proof to back it up…until the path-finding/groundbreaking Keeladi excavations that started in 2015.
A series of digs carried out by the Archaeological Survey of India in a little village near Madurai unearthed artifacts dating back at least to the 6th century BCE [the time of the Buddha].
This included pottery fragments with graffiti marks very similar to the Indus Valley Civilization script.
But Keeladi isn’t the first or only place to offer evidence of ancient settlements in Tamil Nadu.
Adichanallur, Korkai, Pallavaram, Attirampakkam, and many more sites have produced an array of amazing artifacts over the last 100 years or so, including the oldest human tool to be ever discovered in India -- a hand-axe that was discovered in Pallavaram, part of present-day Chennai.
It’s only in recent years that the pieces of the jigsaw have started coming together. Archeologists believe that many more exciting discoveries, possibilities, and answers are waiting to be found at this site.
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This changes everything! Hidden history of Vedic knowledge and the Indus Valley Civilization
(The 5th Kind) How long have anatomically modern humans been present on this planet? How far back does the Vedic civilization in India (previously called Great Bharat) go? Were certain gods and deities (brahmas and devas) worshiped within the Solar Dynasty in India as long as 20 million years ago?
Michael Cremo (mcremo.com) reveals all in this video presentation, in association with Portal to Ascension (ascensionconference.com) for information on the upcoming 3-day portal to ascension conference in San Diego, California, April 21-23, 2023.
It will feature Michael Cremo, Linda Moulton Howe, Caroline Cory, Barbara Lamb, and many other amazing presenters. Special thanks to Neil Gaur @portaltoascension for this collaboration.
Check out PTA on YouTube (youtube.com/channel...). Were there Vedic designs inside Indus Valley Civilization sites? Is there any archeological evidence that humans like us have been present on earth for millions [even hundreds of millions] of years? Were humans like us on earth 20 million years ago?
The Puranas: Vedic history tells a version of human history that is much, much older than the one currently accepted by mainstream science.
Michael Cremo is a journalist, whistleblower, and researcher of human origins and an international authority on archeological anomalies (out of place artifacts).
He has authored several books, including the bestselling Forbidden Archaeology, in which he argues that humans existed on earth as long as 40 million years ago.
The Forbidden Archeologist: Human Devolution, Forbidden Archeology's Impact, and the Hidden History of the Human Race was co-authored by Richard Thompson. His published works are highly endorsed by academics and researchers around the world.
Michael Cremo has been invited to present his research in some of the leading scientific institutions of the world. The royal institution of London, the Russian Academy of Science, the Moscow Department of Anthropology, the Indian Institute of Science, and many others.
He has also appeared widely on television shows such as the History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens” and the Gaia TV series “Ancient Civilizations.”
Michael Cremo’s work in archeology and research of the ancient Sanskrit writings of India (and proto-India) has revealed a long and mysterious history of human origins, spirituality, and paleocontact.
Find more information about him, his research, and his published works by visiting his website mcremo.com.
Mahayana Buddhism, the larger (~90% of Buddhists) of the two dominant schools nowadays, was chewed up by Brahmin priests. They made the new revolutionary teachings of Shakyamuni (the "Sage of the Scythians") that were displacing their religion into something they could tolerate, something that did not differ from their texts.
That old philosophy, the Brahminical religion (Brahmanism) they inherited from the ancient Vedas was not to be overthrown. They had to subvert the Buddha's teaching to do it. What they taught was called the Sanatan Dharma, the Eternal Teachings. Shakyamuni taught the Buddha Dharma, which radically departed with some of the core assumptions of the old views. Here spiritual entertainer Alan Watts looks at the mix.
The same Vedic Hindu ideas spread everywhere.
Theravada Buddhism (~10%) rejects many Hindu/Mahayana concepts in favor of what the historical Buddha actually taught. But the whole world normally only ever hears the Hindu/Mahayana version, which is found in many religions including Christianity and Islam. What the Buddha Taught is just too radical for people to fathom.
So the chance for enlightenment (awakening) is lost. And all religions end up saying the same thing, as if all paths led to the same goal. But the Buddha's goal was nothing short of nirvana, and that is not the same as heaven, Hindu or Jain moksha, or what other religions call salvation.
Lost Worlds investigates the very latest archaeological finds at three remote and hugely significant sites: Buddhist and Vedic Hindu Angkor Wat, Greek Troy, and Iranian Persepolis.
Lost Worlds travels to each site and through high-end computer graphics and lavish reenactments. And the latest archaeological evidence brings them to stunning tele-visual life. From the 900-year-old remains of Angkor Wat in the Cambodian jungle the staggering City of the God (Deva-) Kings is recreated. From Project Troia, in north-west Turkey, the location of the biggest archaeological expedition ever mounted the lost city is stunningly visualized, and finally from Persepolis the city and the great Persian Empire are brought to life. Content licensed from Digital Rights Group (DRG). Produced by Darlow Smithson Productions.
Alan Watts' gets very Hindu/Mahayana Buddhist in this fascinating talk on not doing to do and so on. Read Watts' books (amzn.to/2lCVsQw).
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[Aryan, "noble," in Buddhism refers to those on the stages of enlightenment; the meaning in English is corrupted. Hinduism records Inner Earth heavens.]
Some of the oldest cultures speak of civilizations inside of vast cavern cities in the bowels of the earth.
According to certain Buddhist and Hindu traditions, secret tunnels connect Tibet (Potala Palace, Lhasa) to a subterranean paradise, a Shangri-la (like the Turkish/Mongolian legend of Ergenekon). Hollow Earth is the legendary underworld called Agartha.
I have been to Inner Earth: Col. Billie Woodard
In Agartha I (Col. Billie Faye Woodard) was given a mission (Pt. 2).
Woodard, a hermaphrodite in Feb. 2012, claims to be from Hollow Earth. S/he took a 6-month trip to Hollow Earth as a child, met people and creatures there, saw technology, and returned to the surface. S/he graduated high school at 12 and searched for a job that ultimately led her to earn a commission in the US Air Force and was assigned to the Pentagon then Area 51.
In India, this underground oasis is best known by its Sanskrit name, Shambhala, thought to mean "place of tranquility." Mythologies throughout the world, from South America to the poles, describe entrances to these fabled inner lands.
[In the Americas this cavern-world is called Aztlan, and the Ancient Mesoamericans described their civilization as having arrived on rafts from a central island in the ocean, likely remnant fragments of the once great Atlantis-continent.]
Many occult organizations, esoteric authors, and secret societies concur with these myths and legends of modern subterranean inhabitants.
They are the remnants of antediluvian (pre-flood) civilizations, which sought refuge in hollow caverns inside the earth.
Numerous endeavors have been undertaken to access the interior of the earth. Polar expeditions and battles, such as the U.S. Operation Highjump, Antarctica, which remains largely classified.
Other endeavors have remained shrouded in secrecy for decades, but scientific revelations validate the rumors about these covert operations, and their implications are finally being exposed to the light of day.
Here is an animation of what the total eclipse of the moon (Chandra/Luna) approximately looked like over Los Angeles, California, according to the standard model.
Stages and times of the eclipse are also outlined with all times local (PST) for LA. This total lunar eclipse ["purple moon"?] was fully visible from LA. A total lunar eclipse is sometimes called a "blood moon," as the moon turns red, and it was a "blue moon," which simply means a second full moon in the same month.
But Rahu (a major astronomical body in Vedic Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology) likely causes eclipses of this sort rather than the shadow of the earth (Bhūmi/Tierra/Gaia) due to the sun (Surya/Sol).
Once one model is believed, any animation can be constructed to illustrate how an eclipse would be accomplished.
Rahu, not the earth/sun, causes eclipses.
Neither the traditional nor standard model explains why the moon does not disappear into black. All that happened was that the moon turned orange reddish. What light is it reflecting if the sizes of these bodies are correctly stated in the standard model?
The sun and moon are much smaller than we are told by modern science. Anyone who saw the eclipse as we did on retreat from the mountains between Banning and Idyllwild has to question what in the world we saw. Few, however, will dare to question for fear of ridicule. And somebody calls that "good science"?
Lunar Operations Command (Corey Goode)
Question authority. Science, rather than liberating us, is being used against us. It has become an unassailable font of dictates handed down from on high. We are scientists making observations looking for the best explanation of phenomena, and the one thing that is clear is that we are not being illuminated by the gatekeepers of the University.
If I were a hybrid, more alien than earthling, would you know by my large almond eyes?
Michael Cremo outlines evidence of 6,000-year-old flying machines of the ancient world
Michael Cremo (mcremo.com) is the researcher and author of Forbidden Archeology. He adheres to an ancient Vedic/Buddhist view of the world as preserved and popularized by Vedantic Hinduism today. Understanding the universe, its age, and life on earth from a time when flying vehicles, spaceships, platforms, space craft (vimanas) were seen by all may be the inspiration for current government (NASA, DARPA, military) technology.
Many years ago, some Sanskrit documents from the 4th Century BCE, which were recovered from Lhasa, Tibet -- site of Potala Palace, the ruined seat of Vajrayana Buddhism invaded and oppressed by China -- were sent to the University of Chandrigarh.
There they were translated into English by Dr. Ruth Reyna (bibliotecapleyades.net), who went on to claim that the documents contain instructions on how to build spacecraft with interstellar capabilities. According to Dr. Reyna, these craft use anti-gravitational propulsion powered by laghima (Vril?) The document suddenly gained a lot of attention when it was announced that China would be including parts of the information for study as part of their space program.
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Sitting on top of "the world" - what were ancients saying with dimensions of great pyramid?
Newton's suspicion about the Great Pyramid is shocking
Charles Kos, Ph.D.
Isaac Newton seems to have believed in the lost super-civilization. He believed in a antediluvian advanced world, much more so than his own.
He believed that the previous people on Earth had already worked out all the physical laws and sought the dimensions of the Egyptian cubit in the circumference of the Great Pyramid.
Flying palaces and cities
This would give him the circumference of the Earth, which would give him the gravitational constant. Khufu, according to legend, had a dream. He was told his dream referred to the end of the world. He saw the stars spinning and wished to help the world by constructing a great building to preserve knowledge.
The great pyramid enshrined old sciences, or legend say. In fact, Newton was aware of this and thought it was a clue from the past. Newton had an enormous library of thousands of books. He read John Greaves' Pyramidographia and other books on Egypt as well the Temple of Solomon.
He quickly grasped the import, antiquity, and implications of the Great Pyramid at Giza. He used Greaves' and Burattini's measures on the Great Pyramid, although these were inaccurate, and as a result was unable to put the final stamp on his theory of gravitation until 1671, when Jean Picard was finally able to measure a degree of latitude which came to 69.1 English miles.
Newton himself wrote the work, "A Dissertation upon the Sacred Cubit of the Jews and the Cubits of several Nations: in which, from the Dimensions of the Greatest Pyramid, as taken by Mr. John Greaves, the ancient Cubit of Memphis is determined."
Flying machines of Ancient India
There is a high-tech purpose to the pyramids: vimanas(ancient spacecraft of India). A vimana is a craft able to travel without limits -- through space, sky, and sea.
Pushpaka vimana means "aerial flying craft." These are artificial craft from tens of thousands of years ago, very sophisticated high technology.
Some were said to have been pyramid-shaped and three stories tall. The spaceship-precision of, in particular, the descending corridor of the Great Pyramid actually enshrines vimana-like technology.
All artificial hills, pyramids, Buddhist stupas (burial mounds and buildings) across the world were originally conceived of as craft for angels "fallen" or come down from"heaven" (space). Loki is trapped under a huge rock, a pyramid, wishing to return home in heaven.
Loki/Budh was the monotheistic "god" (deva), the Khufu version was Khnum, creator of humans. Another monotheistic lord was the Sun God (Surya, Sol). So why not help this helper of humankind get back to heaven, to the world in space of its origin? Let's build the god a vimana.
In fact many plateaus may have been flattened out for this purpose. Almost as amazing as the Great Pyramid is the base built to support it with tons of precision cut stones laid out on a flattened surface.
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