Big fan of the Indus Valley and all, but the lack of literature from it means there is nothing for me to relate to. I have zero cultural/religious attachment to it. Who were these people, what did they believe in, what were their stories? Just gone in the sands of time.
All I have to relate to these Harappans is my blood (DNA) and common geography, and that isn't enough. They are a totally alien people to me. I wonder sometimes, is this how modern Europeans feel when they look back & read accounts of their Pagan ancestors from 2500 years ago?
I have no idea what Gods they worshipped, what their names were, how their religious festivals were like, what kind of stories they bonded over, who their national heroes were. I relate x100 times more to Ancient Greece and Rome than to the Harappans. Lost in history.
I don't even speak their languages. The last ancestor of mine who spoke a Harappan language probably lived 3500 years ago. The link between us has been cut permanently.
Nah, ritual purity is one of the oldest Aryan beliefs. I was watching a documentary on the Kalash, and the only thing they were obsessed about was ritual purity (i.e - menstruating women cannot enter temples, even for Kalash, & they must live far away)
The mask on the left means nothing to me, I have no idea who that person was or what its relevance is to my culture. I have no masks or statues of Arjuna from 1500 BCE but he has a thousand times more relevance to me.
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