Mircea Eliade YOGA IMMORTALITY AND ... - Brihaspati.net

They are mainly the two city-fortresses, Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa on the Indus on a
tributary of Indus, Ravi, which revealed the essence of this proto-hist6rica civilization.
What initially attracts attention is its uniformity and-comiento are: no change, no
innovation have been observed fords in the millennium of history of civilization
harappiana. The two
castle towns were probably the capital of the "Empire". The cultural coherence and
continuity can not be explained only assuming a regime based on a kind of religious
authority. The variety of anthropological types already shows a quite advanced ethnic
synthesis: proto-Australoid elements appear to represent the greatest and most
"primitive", the aborigines, the type "Mediterranean" is probably of western origin and
may be regarded as the bearer of agricultural civilization (indeed, is 1 finds in the
Western world always associated with agriculture; Piggott, Prehistoric India, p. 145), and
finally, two anthropological types were identified: the Mongoloid and alpino.38
The piano in the city of Mohenjo-Daro shows the importance of a Great Pool (Great
Bath), which brings to mind the "pool" of Hindu temples today. Pictographic writing,
found in a lot of stamps has not been deciphered: has, so far, to certain hypotheses
capricious art, like all culture is conservative and harappiana and "Indian" style one
senses newer artists (Piggott, p. 187).
But our primary concern is the religion: according to Sir John Marshall, is so specific that
hardly differs Indian Hinduism (op. cit, vol. 1, p. VII). We find here the cult of the Great
Goddess, as well as that of a god who could be considered a prototype of Shiva, along
with zoolatria (ibid. p. 67), the faksmo (p. 58) the cult of trees ( op-cha plan XII, fig. 18)
and water (ibid. p. 75), ie all the elements to become members later in the great synthesis,
Hindu. The cult of Mother Goddess is widely used there, they found numerous figurines,
some of them quasi-goddesses represent almost desnudas.3 * The latter rate is similar to
Kali-Durga, the model was probably. No Aryan people rose to a supreme female deity to
the place that had in the Mohenjo-Daro civilization which now owns Kali in Hinduism.
But the most important for our study is the dis -
ss See descripci6n in Sir John Marshall, Mohenjo-Daro, vol. 11 ps. 599,648, idem, vol. 1,
p. 42, the premature attempt to link these four types et de-tails with the munda
lingiiisticas famines and dravtda.
** One of the names of the Great Goddess of Hinduism is Aparna, "which
this leaves without his robe, "ie," this naked. "
ery in Mohenjo-Daro, an iconographic type that can be
considered the first plastic representation of a yogi.
The same Great God, in whom we identified the prototype of Siva,
alii is specifically represented in the position yogi
(pi. XII, fig. 17). Sir John Marshall describes it in these terms
(vol. 1, p. 52): "God, who has three faces, seated in a
Indian throne in the attitude characteristic of yoga, sitting on its
cross legs, heel against heel and toes down
(...). On his chest is a pectoral triangular or maybe a
series of necklaces (...) The phallus is short (urdhvamedhra)
but what looks like a phallus could be, in fact, only the extreme
the belt. A couple of Cueman crowned his head. On both sides