पशुपति Pashupati (Master of Animals)

Found in Mohenjo-Daro (2500 BCE) from the Harappan culture (8,000BCE)

Cernunnos (Horned God)

Found in Denmark, on the Gundestrup cauldron (200BC - Originating in Greece)

🐍 It is well noted that the names of rivers like the Don, Dneiper, Dniester, Donets and Danube to the north of the Black Sea are largely cognate with the Sanskrit, Danu. Many ancient European peoples, particularly the Celts, regarded themselves as children of Danu, with Danu meaning Mother Goddess, who was also, like Sarasvati in the Rig Veda, a river Goddess. The Celts called themselves “Tuatha De Danaan” as did the mythical pagan rulers of Ireland around 2000BC.

The word Danu could reflect such a movement of peoples from West or Central Asia, including migrants originally from regions of greater India and Iran. At the end of the Ice Age, as Europe became warmer, it became a suitable land for agriculture. Ancient European river names like the Danube and various rivers called Don in Russia, Scotland, North England and France reflect this.

Danu is probably, in some respects, a synonym of Maya, from the sons of Diti, a wife of Kashyapa, who is sometimes equated with Danu and also known as Sumaya, having a divine (Su) power (Maya).

Like the root Ma, the root Da means “to divide” or “to measure”. Maya is the power of the Danavas but also their illusion. Maya itself is the serpent power.

With Rudra (Shiva) as their father and Prishni (Shakti) as their mother, they reflect all the Gods of later Hinduism.

Perhaps these Sudanavas (Danu) guided many peoples including the Celts and other Europeans. It could also be argued that the Sudanavas were the Maruts, Druids and other Rishi classes who carried the ancient knowledge of magic from northern India, across to Europe via the middle east in a wave of tribal migrations. 

🌿The legend of Pashupati can be found in reference to Shiva, as his prototype. The Skanda Purana tells how Shiva used to love a great forest called the 'Sleshmantaka Forest’, where he meditated in the form of a deer.

🌿Cernunnos presided over pristine nature and was skilled in bringing wild beasts into peaceful communion.

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