Indischer
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You are coming again for the proof. Make up your mind on what constitutes a proof. I have told you earlier, you are not going to find a inscription from IVC people saying Shiva was borrowed by Rigvedic people. At one hand, you show the "proof" of Brahui migration based on loan words that are present but you refuse to accept loan gods as proof of IVC contribution. If Rigvedic people can spontaneously come up with non-IE gods, Brahui can come up with IE words themselves. Go through some of the published works, you will get most detailed answers regarding IVC remnants in Rigveda. Even linguistically, there are about 300 "loan words" in rigveda that are non IE. These same words are in use among today's dravidian people. That is a fact. This is what has prompted many people to believe IVC spoke some proto dravidian language. You call dravidian origin of Shiva a fringe theory? Asko Parpola is a "fringe theorist" to you?
Read his paper published in 2010, page 21 "http://w.harappa.com/script/Parpola-2010-Coimbatore.pdf"
Like I said, there are tons of tell tale signs. You consider things that suit you as proof and others as "fringe theory" etc. Also, I did not say Pasupati is Shiva, I added "most probably".
Who told you Shiva is a non-IE God?? All his characteristics are lifted from the RigVedic Rudra, who is very much a IE God of animals. Even the name Rudra has no dravidian/non-IE roots. You know about the Dravidian substratum in RigVeda, hence you'd also know they've gone through the whole text looking for such words. Tell me, how many names of Vedic deities do they consider to have Dravidian roots?? Zilch!! There's a huge difference between adopting the name of an agricultural tool and a God. Your talk would have been valid if the IE tribes didn't worship nature and animals, but they did! By themselves! Evidence of nature worship and a horse-sacrifice similar to Ashwamedha has been found in the Sintashta culture too.
Precisely dude. There are lots of loopholes in the theory that advances the possibility of IVC having contributed to Vedic culture too. Didn't I say in the last sentence that my earlier question too need not be taken seriously? Since, there's no proof of an Aryan Invasion at all, such questions fall in the same category as those which ask that since a seal of a guy surrounded by animals is found in IVC, why can't it be that of Shiva?Oldest sample of genetic mixup of ANI and ASI is 4200 years ago, around 2200BC, there are lots of loopholes in Aryan invasion theory. Extinction of Indus script can only be possible if they have abandoned it for new writing system. Egyptians too abandoned Hieroglyphic script although their civilization continued. I read about other theory that drying of Saraswati river led to disowning urban lifestyles and later hardship due to Eastward migration.