A few days earlier, the BBC ran a story about the discovery of 12,000-year old petroglyphs in the Ratnagiri and Rajapur area of the state of Maharashtra in western India.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-45559300
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-45559300
A couple of petroglyphs show astonishing similarities with well-known sacred symbols of the the ancient world:
1. A Winged Scarab which was very popular in ancient Egypt and symbolized creation and rebirth.The Egyptians called the scarab beetle "Khepri" and worshiped it as the “dawn sun”.
2. The Master of Animals - a symbolic motif that shows a person holding an animal in each hand by its hind leg or tail - that was widespread in the art of the Near East and Egypt.
These 12,000-year old petroglyphs raise many important questions. How did such complex concepts and symbolic imagery appear at such an early age? Does it reflect the esoteric knowledge of an erstwhile “Golden Age” civilization that perished during the cataclysms of the Younger Dryas epoch (10,900 BCE – 9700 BCE)?
Did some of the survivors of this civilization settle on the Konkan coastline of India and etch their sacred symbols on the hard, rocky landscape, transforming them into open-air altars?
I have discussed these symbolic connections and possibilities in a new article on my blog: "12,000-Year Old Petroglyphs in India show Global Connections".
