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But why is Shiva riding on a bull?

To find answer to this question, we have to look at the climate in India.

Indian climatic year is shaped by the monsoon winds...

It is the summer monsoon winds, which blow from Apr/May to Oct/Nov that bring moisture from the sea,
and cause monsoon rains, which fall from Jun to Sep...For instance, here is the annual climatic chart for
Varanasi...

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These monsoon rains are the main source of water in Indian rivers...For instance, this is the annual water
flow chart of the river Ganga, at Varanasi...

Interestingly � river Ganga is said to come out of the top of the head of Shiva...Shiva, whose symbol is
lingam, penis...So out of the top of which head exactly? � The upper one or lower one? Oh, Look!
Ganga is pouring out of Shiva's head on top of a lingam...So symbolic...

Now even more interestingly � , this divine ejaculation (spike in water flow) of the river Ganga starts in
June...The middle of summer: Apr/May, May/Jun, Jun/Jul...Summer, whose symbol is Bull...Summer
which starts in Taurus...I talked about it in my post "Symbols of the seasons"...

Why is this part of the year marked by a bull? Because Apr/May is when Eurasian wild cattle, Aurochs,
started calving...Hence bull/cow and calf symbolism we find everywhere linked to summer...And water...

Like in Mesopotamia...I talked about this in my post "Shamash young and old"...

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And Egypt...I talked about this in my post "Cow and calf ivory"...

And Iran...I talked about this in my post "Elamite water bull"...

And Levant...I talked about this in my post "Mystery seal"...

And India...I talked about this in several of my posts, starting with my post "Kharif and Rabi season"

Kharif (wet) season (May to November)

Rabi (dry) season (November to May)

Based on the data about Zebu cattle, I would postulate that the wild Indian cattle, Indian aurochs, the
ancestors of the Indian Zebu cattle, probably had earlier mating season, which started at the beginning

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of summer, and peaked in Jun, at the beginning of the monsoon season...

So in India, bulls ejaculated their semen when monsoon rain (heavenly semen) started to fall and gather
into swelling rivers...Hence Shiva, whose symbol is a lingam, penis, riding on a bull with Ganga pouring
out of his head...

I talked about this first in my post about Ardhanarishvara where I explain the meaning of the union of
Shiva and Parvati (peak of the monsoon season Jul/Aug) and their Vahanas (bull=summer=May/Jun/Jul,
lion=autumn=Aug/Sep/Oct). I talked about this in my post "Ardhanarishvara"...

And in my post "Modesty" about Lajja Gauri. Lord Shiva and Lady Parvati were having sex. Just when
they were reaching their orgasms, they were interrupted by other Gods...Parvati picked a lotus and
covered her face. And this is why she is called "Modesty"...

And in my post "Fig with bulls" about this Indus Valley civilisation seal depicting (the) tree (of life),
flanked by two bulls, neatly arranged in such a way as to shape Shiva's trident...

You know, bulls, rain, tree of life...

BTW the tree is The Sacred Fig...

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And so I would suggest that before Shiva became Shiva, God riding on a bull, Shiva was deified bull,
and then anthropomorphised deified bull...

And his priests probably danced around every Apr/May, just before the beginning of the rain season
dressed in bull skins with bull horns on their heads, pretending to be holy bulls of rain...

We have exactly the same behaviour in Arizona. Different horns though...Different climate, different
(deified) horned animals, different horns...

Alósaka/Muyingwa were two aspects of The Corn God of the Hopi pantheon: The God of Germination
and The God of Growth (of corn). To understand why The Corn God was depicted with wild sheep horns,
you need to look at animal calendar markers...I talked about this in my post "Alosaka"...

And in Europe...Article "Goat in European culture" about Ibex goat as an animal calendar marker
imbedded in in European cultures and mythologies...Again, different climate, different (deified) horned
animals, different horns...

And in Iran, where rains arrive when wild Ibex goats begin to mate, in Oct/Nov...This is why Ibex was
venerated in Iran, and this is why it is in Iran that we find the first Goat man...The earliest transition from
Goat of rain to God of rain...I talked about this in my post "Goat petroglyphs from Iran"...

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What is very interesting is that animal calendar markers prove that Hindu culture is indigenous culture of
India, dating back all the way to Indus Valley civilisation. It developed around local climate, animals and
agriculture...And only makes sense if viewed as such...

Of course Hinduism contains various imported bits too, but the core, the oldest part, is indigenous...

You can find all the posts talking about animal calendar markers hidden in Indian mythology if you run
this query on my blog...

To read more about ancient animal and plant calendar markers, start here…then check the rest of the
blog posts related to animal calendar markers I still didn't add to this page, and finally check my twitter
threads I still didn't convert to blog post...I am 9 months behind now...

PS: I want to thank Gabriella Brusa-Zappellini for drawing my attention to this stamp...

Posted by oldeuropeanculture at 08:28

Labels: Animal calendar markers, Bull mythology, Bull symbolism, Goat mythology, Goat symbolism, Harappan civilisation, Indian
archaeology, Indian mythology, Indus Valley civilisation, Mohenjo-Daro, Shiva

1 comment:

DDeden 15 December 2023 at 04:12

Cave in Madagascar has picts of extinct sloth lemur, capital M ("ha" breath of life), Horus, possible links to Borneo,
Ethiopia, Egypt, yet no images of zebu cattle, which were brought later. https://groups.io/g/1WorldofWords
/message/125

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