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Write brief essay on: The Religion of the Indus Civilization.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Indus Valley Civilization

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Unlike contemporary Mesopotamia or Egypt, the Harappan civilization left behind no deciphered religious texts, temples identifiable with certainty, or named deities — so its religion has to be reconstructed almost entirely from seals, figurines, and ritual structures, a fact that makes every reading provisional and interpretation-dependent rather than a settled inventory of beliefs.

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  • Goddess Worship and Fertility Symbolism
  • The Pashupati Seal and a Possible Male Deity
  • Nature Worship, Composite Beings, and Ritual Structures
  • Reading the Evidence With Caution
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