Many news about prehistoric founds and their possible meaning reached the world in the last decades. One of them, found in South Germany, puts scientist around the world in amazement. The centerpiece is the “lion man” (narsimha), an idol that is made from the tusk of a mammoth in the form of a human body with a lion head. Amazingly it is dated back 32,000 years from now.
This discovery brought a lot of attention in the archaeological circles in Europe. In Excavations around 1930-35 at the Lonetal area near Ulm, German scientist already found an immense cave system with lots of prehistoric artifacts in it.
First, only representations of birds, horses, turtles and even single lions where found but not a morphological combination of men and animal. Naturally the “lion man” (narsimha) was quite outstanding and unique. It became also clear during the later examinations that the “lion-men” was used for ritual purposes, unlike the other items which seemed to have accompanied the dead and so on.
The Idol was found exactly at the place in the cave where day and night meet, about 20 meters away from the entrance and buried 1,20 meter deep under the ground. Many parts of the figure were broken and where found a little away in this area. Therefore it took some time to finish the work of completing and reconstructing the figure and to see it as a whole.
From the viewpoint of Vedic culture of ancient India, Lord Vishnu appeared in a divine human form with a lion face to protect his devotee and to stop religiousness. A description of a standing idol form of this lord is found in the agama silpa shastra and is called “kevala narasimha”. In India still many ancient temples exist, where deities of Sri Narasimha Bhagavan are worshiped, often at special locations like on high mountain peaks or in caves.
Many ancient, highly developed cultures had some kind of idols or pictures of lions with a human face or torso. A purely ritualistic Relic, like for example the Sphinx of gizeh or the Egyptian goddess of war sekhmetm, with a lion head, or Mithra, the Sun god of Persia, with a lion face, the Assyrian Gate Guardians of Babylon or the Etruscan lion with wings at the entrance of the Temple mountain at Troy are well known examples for this.
An now this amazing discovery in Lonetal in a deep cave which is directed to north east towards the little river lone. Extraordinary is also the exact position of the found of the lion-man (narsimha). It immediately reminded me of the ancient story from the Puranas, known to all devotees of LordVishnu, where Hiranyakashipu, the great demon, achieved nearly immortality by the blessings of Brahma. This demon asked for the boon that he could not be killed by a beast or man, nor in the sky or on earth, not inside or outside a house, not in the day or in the night, not with weapons or by hand and so on. Lord Vishnu then appeared out of a column to kill this demon. But to fulfill the boon Brahma gave, he appeared at dusk and killed him on the doorsteps of his palace with his sharp nails.
It is off course difficult or maybe impossible to finally judge if this idol (narsimha) was a part of a global Vedic civilization but nonetheless our visit of the exhibition, where one can see the figure in a cave like hall, and our later trip to the original place of discovery where very breathtaking and mystical and made us meditate deeply about our predecessors and ancient times long ago where god was present directly on earth, or later in his idol form in many temples all around the world.
Krinvanto Vishwamaaryam….Make the world Noble(Arya)
mis-leading title
Bevkoofo ki duniya main koi kami nahi hai…..ot tum un main se ek ho
and you are some smartass who understands physics and biology and believe that earth is flat right??…
the dating of lion could be misleading, but it is very possible it could have some proto-vedic link…,very interesting article
arey fools u on earth by mislead not god .trust him believe him he will give better way of thinking. ok
Really??… i can't understand what you are trying to say…
its nothing to do about god or religious beliefs.whatever we have been taught in textbooks or about history is totally misleading.the true facts are still hidden from common people.we live in a world which is far away from truth.they dont want us to know our true self.
meditative
history is made by British and christian missionaries for stay and rule india
These are all rubbish hypotheses .
For you only…thanks for your response…
alexdombroff@alexanderdombroff.com
Ther is no Narsimha in Vedas.
I think, you haven't read Vishnu Purana, one of the oldest purana, and there is a story of Hirinyakashaku and Prahalada along with Narsimha avatar of lord Vishnu.
vishnu purana is not part of vedas. get your facts right
All the puranas and upanishads are part of the vedas
Puranas,such as Srimad Bhagavatam,written by Srila Vyasadeva,under the authority of his preceptor,Narada Muni,described the pastime of Lord Nrsinghadeva and his devotee,Prahlad Maharaja, grandson of prajapati Kasyapa Muni.So the evidence is there.Any disregard of this sacred account is considered a grave offense. Those who strayed from vedic culture have attempted to minimize the Vedas.
Vedas (with s)include the entire corpus of ancient literature such as rig, sama, arthava, puranas, upanishads etc. the word Veda without the s refers to Rig, Sama, Arthava, and Yajur Veda only.
ms.orphray,
Christians invaded australia, completely exterminated australians and called them as aborigines, In each family the women was molested by the church priests and fathers, the men folks were killed, the child was sent to mines, 100% population became, 1% to be called as aborigines.
Christians invaded canada, completely extinguished the canadians, called them aborigines, Just the same way they did to australians, here they sent them to gas chambers, 100% population became 2%. The canadians are called as aborigines.
Christians invaded africa, now everyone will sell animals, metals, the greatness of the preachings of jesus was that you should sell human beings, Africans who are the ancestors of the entire human race was being sold. what a great preaching, what a great output of reading bible.
Need i say about america!!!
and yes the christians invaded india tried to do the same thing, In goa they molested and imprsoned the indians and tortured them to convert, they sold tamil speaking indians to srilanka for tea estates(Christians are the root cause problem for srilankan genocide of indians),
But unfortunately jesus and his christian army was defeated by Mahatma gandhi on 15th august 1947….
VANDE MATARAM
Well done..bharatdesa
Hi,
I am searching for some details.
When was vel Ilang Kanni amman temples destroyed by christians and converted to velankanni church!!!!!
Can u provide details about the same.
We are also researching on the topic, will let you know, once get proper details with references and proofs.
I have taken this picture of the statue to several Sthapati's and shilpis who are well educated in iconography – ancient and modern. They all agree that, while it is an interesting statue it is not of Indian origin nor is it the form of Narsimha. As much as I wanted it to be it simply is not. This does not negate the importance of the influence of ancient India throughout the world. However we must be careful with our assessments lest we appear to be overreaching to prove our point. I personally find evidence everywhere around the world for the influence of Mayan the architect and his vishwakarmas. And, it is not overreaching.
Thanks for all of the inspiring articles.
dear bharatadesa
all those who may call themselves christian arent christians…..
christianity doesnt teach forceful conversion/murder/molestation….so someone who does it in the name of being christian isnt one
all the countries you mentioned where there are "christians" now like australia/canada no longer have any christians….predominantly agnostics/atheists
hope this helps improve your understanding of the world!!
roshan
soolemagane…. mucho saku..