Wim J Borsboom

This hypothesis, "Worldwide Holocene Seafaring Migrations from the Indus Valley" proposes that prior to ca 1,350 BCE, reed-vessel sailing, seafaring migrants from the Indus Valley in what is now Pakistan and north western India, over a period between 7,500 and ca 1,350 BCE, took along with them during their migrations to areas far to the west and far to the east of their original homeland, their trading, social, cultural and industrial skills. It included all aspects of what is now known as the Harappan or Indus Valley Culture and Civilization. The migrants most importantly brought their Sanskrit based language along, with which I propose, they seeded the coastlands and islands where they settled. I also propose that topically, their language changed over time into various dialects which over time formed the various Indo-European as well as Polynesian languages.

This hypothesis, "Worldwide Holocene Seafaring Migrations from the Indus Valley" proposes that prior to ca 1,350 BCE, reed-vessel sailing, seafaring migrants from the Indus Valley in what is now Pakistan and north western India, over a period between 7,500 and ca 1,350 BCE, took along with them during their migrations to areas far to the west and far to the east of their original homeland, their trading, social, cultural and industrial skills. It included all aspects of what is now known as the Harappan or Indus Valley Culture and Civilization. The migrants most importantly brought their Sanskrit based language along, with which I propose, they seeded the coastlands and islands where they settled. I also propose that topically, their language changed over time into various dialects which over time formed the various Indo-European as well as Polynesian languages.

Based on language, archaeogenetic and archaeological data, this hypothesis proposes that over an extended period of time, between 9,500 and 3,350 years ago, large segments of the urban, agricultural, river-faring and seafaring population of the northwest delta of the Indian subcontinent -- the Indus Valley or
the Sapta Sindhu region, described in the Rigveda (RV 7.36.6) as सप्त ससिंधू“Seven Rivers" -- left their homeland in migratory waves.

They were driven by:
1. A natural human inclination to “look for other shores”, and
2. A number of large natural catastrophes, and the various diseases that resulted from them.

These multiple group migrations went into three main directions, following three distinct routes:

1. Migrations oversea and along the coasts to coastal European lands: through the Red Sea to the Mediterranean lands (including northern Africa), and subsequently via the Strait of Gibraltar to the North Sea’s coastal lands, and from there to the Scandinavian and Baltic Sea coastal regions,

2. Migrations overland within India to north, north east, central and southern Indian regions, where, over time, the migrants merged with existing populations and cultures.

Shore hugging sea migration also took place around India’s mainland coasts.

3. Further east by sea, via Sri Lanka, and Central Asia, to Australia and even as far as the Pacific Ocean's archipelagos and the Americas.

Mesolithic-Neolithic Seafaring Migrations from the Indus Valley into North-East and South India, the Mediterranean and Northern Europe’s Islands and Coastal areas, as well as China, the Pacific Archipelagos and the Americas.

Based on language, archaeogenetic and archaeological data, this hypothesis proposes that over an extended period of time, between 9,500 to 3,350 years ago, large segments of the urban, agricultural, river-faring and seafaring population of the northwest delta of the Indian subcontinent (the सप्त सिंधू or Sapta Sindhu region RV 7.36.6) left their homeland in migratory waves. They took along with them a number of social, cultural and industrial skills, which most importantly included their Sanskrit based language - even as it over time morphed into a variety of dialects which eventually became the Indo-European and Polynesian languages.

These Harappan Culture migrants were driven by:

1. A natural human inclination to “look for other shores” and
2. A number of large natural catastrophes, and the diseases that resulted from them.

These multiple group migrations went into three main directions, following 3 distinct routes:

1. Migrations oversea and along the coasts to coastal European lands: through the Red Sea to the Mediterranean lands (including northern Africa), and subsequently via the Strait of Gibraltar to the North Sea’s coastal lands, and from there to the Scandinavian and Baltic Sea coastal regions,
2. Migrations overland within India to north eastern, central and southern Indian regions, where, over time, the migrants merged with existing populations and cultures. Shore-hugging sea migration also took place around India’s mainland coasts.
3. Further east oversea, via Sri Lanka, Central Asia, and even as far as the Pacific Ocean's archipelagos and the Americas.

This paper proposes and details, how - well before 3400 BP - the current western Late-
Roman Alphabet character sequence (the linear ABC or abecedary) was modelled after a pre-
Sanskrit Devanāgarī-like character grid (abugida or alphasyllabary).
Because of the difference between linear and grid (tabular) formats, that modelling can of
course only become evident, when enough of a similarity is observed between the linear abecedary
characters and the tabular sequence of letters in a Pre-Ashokan Brāhmī or Pre-Sanskrit abugida.
a) It will be demonstrated how the western alphabet sequence can be put in a tabular
format, and can subsequently be compared side-by-side with a pre-Sanskrit Devanāgarī-
like character grid.
b) Even if the characters within the western alphabet (abecedary) look randomly distributed,
it will be shown how that letter-sequence was originally based on an ancient orderly
pattern, a pattern that categorized sounds by how and where they were articulated in the
mouth.
c) It will then be shown how a Ugarit cuneiform clay tablet abecedary from Syria (ca 1400
BCE) provides evidence that a “West-of-India” style, irregular alphabetic sequence was
already in use - an abecedary modelled after a very early form of a pre-Sanskrit
Devanāgarī-like abugida.
d) The steps will be retraced how this modelling and/or copying process took place, a
process that also included several “errors and omissions” made by one or several ancient
scribes most likely from the Near-East. It is shown that these errors eventually resulted in
the apparent disorder of the western alphabet’s character sequence.
e) By tracking these “copied” errors across a number of ancient abugidas (alphasyllabaries),
including Pre-Ashokan and Ashokan Brāhmī, and comparing it to a Ugarit (Syria)
cuneiform clay tablet from 1400 BCE, we arrive at a terminus ante quo before which the
first modelling and/or copying must have taken place.
f) When the western alphabet - once it is put in tabular format - is superficially compared to
an earlier and simpler “reverse retro-engineered” Sanskrit set of characters, a percentage
of similarity of only 25 % (5 out of 20 characters) is calculated
g) However,
• after the error identifications, and
• while considering the varying but close pronunciations of several comparable
characters in side-by-side alphabet and abugida grids, and
• while focusing on the placement of several Late-Roman Alphabet characters in their
appropriate vowel, labial, guttural and dental columns (illustrated in detail),
a 90 % match between them is calculated.

Based on language, archaeogenetic and archaeological data, this hypothesis proposes that over an extended period of time, between 9,500 and 3,350 years ago, large segments of the urban, agricultural, river-faring and seafaring population of the northwest delta of the Indian subcontinent -- the Indus Valley or the Sapta Sindhu region, described in the Rigveda (RV 7.36.6) as सप्त सिंधू “Seven Rivers" -- left their homeland in migratory waves. They were driven by: (a) A natural human inclination to “look for other shores”, (b) A number of large natural catastrophes, and the various diseases that resulted from them. These multiple group migrations went into three main directions, following 3 distinct routes (hereafter called Route 1, Route 2, Route 3): -Route 1. Migrations oversea and along the coasts to coastal European lands: through the Red Sea to the Mediterranean lands (including northern Africa), and subsequently via the Strait of Gibraltar to the North Sea’s coastal lands, and from there to the Scandinavian and Baltic Sea coastal regions. -Route 2. Migrations overland within India to north, north east, central and southern Indian regions, where, over time, the migrants merged with existing populations and cultures. Shore hugging sea migration also took place around India’s mainland coasts. -Route 3. Further east oversea, via Sri Lanka, Central Asia, and even as far as the Pacific Ocean's archipelagos and the Americas.

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Abstract

This study investigates how and where the Western Alphabet acquired its haphazard and seemingly illogical order.

"Alphabet or Abracadabra?" details the writer's research into how (by copying) and when (before 3400 years ago) the Western Alphabet character sequence (abecedary) was modelled after a pre-Sanskrit character grid or abugida.

Inspired by the Devanāgarī abugida grid of characters, Borsboom discovered this when he forced the western alphabet's character sequence (the ABC or 'abecedary') into a similar tabular format. He started out by lining up the vowels in one column and fitting the following consonants sequentially into three adjacent columns and rows.

By comparing the resultant 4x5 column-and-row table (which contained most of the 26 western characters) with a then still hypothetical earlier and simpler form of a pre-Sanskrit abugida character grid, he was able to draw clear dependent links between the western alphabet's sequence of characters and that early form of a pre-Sanskrit nāgarī abugida.

There were some interesting anomalies though, the origins of which Borsboom was able to successfully trace, identify and explain.
Using those anomalies, he could even trace and date one particular early copy process to its (up to now) earliest occurrence, namely one 1400 BCE alphabet artifact found amongst the Ugarit cuneiform tablets.

This book illustrated tracing the origin of the anomalies back to three errors made by an ancient, most likely Near Eastern linguist, who, apparently, must have been on a 'study visit' in India.

When we compare the two sequential formats (the abugida and the abecedary) superficially, that is, before the tracing of errors and before the tabular reconstruction - a percentage of similarity of only 20% (4 out of 20 characters) was calculated.
However, after the error identifications and while taking into account the varying but close pronunciations of a number of comparable characters in side-by-side alphabet and abugida grids, and also while focusing on the placement of nearly all Western-Late Roman characters in their appropriate vowel, labial, guttural and dental columns (as will be shown in detail) an 85.00% match between them is arrived at.

This study also demonstrates how the aforementioned Ugarit abecedary from Syria (1400 -1200 BCE) is evidence that even before it was inscribed in cuneiform, that an even older 'West-of-India' style irregular alphabetic sequence was already in use, also based on a very early form of a Pre-Sanskrit Brāhmī abugida.

Abstract and Book Reviews
Abstract:
This publication details how (copying) and when well before 3200 years ago) the Western Alphabet character sequence (abecedary) was modeled after a pre-Sanskrit character grid (abugida).

By forcing the Western-Late Roman Alphabet character sequence (the ABC or abecedary) into a tabular format by starting out to line up the vowels in one column followed by fitting the consonants sequentially into three adjacent columns, a somewhat orderly and surprising result was obtained.

By comparing the resultant character grid with an early simpler phase of the Sanskrit Devanāgarī character grid, it became possible to discover clear links between Western alphabets and an early form of the Sanskrit Devanāgarī abugida (alphasyllabary).

This dependent linkage between the Western Late-Roman and the Devanāgarī abugida is evidenced by their similar if not almost identical ordering of characters in grids of comparable phoneme classifications.

In this study, the origin of the dissimilarities - or, in fact, irregularities - has been traced back to two errors made by an ancient Near Eastern linguist after his study-visit to ancient India.

As the Western Late-Roman Alphabet in this study's tabular arrangement appeared to be irregular in certain places, especially when compared to the highly organized and well ordered Devanāgarī abugida grid, this study demonstrates how, why and approximately when (before 1200 BCE) those irregularities came about.

When the two sequential formats are superficially compared to each other - before the tracing of errors and before the tabular reconstruction - a percentage of similarity of only 20 % (4 out of 20 characters) was calculated.
However, after the error identifications (described in detail) and while taking into account the varying but close pronunciations of a number of comparable characters in side-by-side alphabet and abugida grids, and while focusing on the placement of nearly all Western Late-Roman characters in their appropriate vowel, labial, guttural and dental columns (illustrated in detail) an 85.00 % match between them was arrived at.

This study also demonstrates how the Ugarit abecedary from Syria (1400 -1200 BCE) is evidence that even before it was inscribed in cuneiform, that a 'West-of-India' style irregular alphabetic sequence was already in use, which, as demonstrated in this study, was based on a very early form of a Pre-Sanskrit Brāhmī abugida."

Book Reviews:

“This Alphabet paper is simply brilliant stuff, serendipity at its finest. The tabulation similarity of ABCD [the western abecedary] with Panini’s abugida [Sanskrit alphabet] is totally new and totally brilliant [and] on par with a description of Fleming’s discovery of Penicillin.”
~ Dr. Shiv Sastry MD

“A study by my friend, original thinker along the lines of Vartak, Einstein, Newton and Kepler. So expect flight of fancy, joy of speculation and wonderful research.
One of a few brilliant Jewels.
~ Nilesh Oak (Author of “When Did The Mahabharata War Happen? - The Mystery of Arundhati” and "The Historic Rama")

“Wim Borsboom takes the reader on a fascinating brief trip through the history of real magic; reading and writing.”
~ S. M. Sulllivan (Author of “The Indus Script Dictionary”)

“Wim Borsboom has hit upon a brilliant idea related to the origins of the western alphabet. He shows that in its basic form, it is similar to the scientifically organized Sanskrit alphabet. This research is of importance not only to the student of alphabets but also to the historian and the layperson interested in understanding cultural interactions in the ancient world.“
~ Subhash Kak, Regents Professor, Oklahoma State University. (Co-author with Georg Feuerstein and David Frawley of “In Search of the Cradle of Civilization”)

“The sequence he has discovered in the alphabet is really fascinating. I don't know how no-one noticed this sequential phonetics before.”
~ Shrikant G. Talageri (Author of “The Rigveda: A Historical Analysis”)

Abstract
Based on language, archaeogenetic and archaeological data, this theory proposes that over an extended period between 9,500 and 3,350 years ago large segments of the population of the north-western delta  of the Indian subcontinent (the Indus Valley or the Sapta Sindhu region from the Rig-Veda (Sanskrit सप्त सिंधू , Seven Rivers") left their homeland because of a number of natural catastrophes and resulting diseases (leprosy, tuberculosis 2) that took place.
These multiple group migrations went into three main directions:
1. Migrations overseas to coastal European lands - from Red Sea, Mediterranean and as far as Baltic Sea coastal regions 3,
2. Migrations within India to North, North East, Central and Southern Indian regions where they, over time, merged with the existing populations and cultures 3,
3. Further East overseas migrations to Sri Lanka, into Chinese Coastal areas, as far as the Pacific Ocean's archipelagos and South America 3.
Ad 1. (See Section 1. Ancient Seafaring from the Indus Valley to Coastal Europe)
Over time, a number of those population segments took a westerly direction from the delta's southern shores of the Indian Ocean, using seaworthy vessels, and after passing south of the Arabian Peninsula, they sailed (and/or peddled) on via the Red Sea through the Suez region (mostly a channel or straight then, not a canal as much of that area was inundated during that period), to the insular and coastal areas in and around the Mediterranean Sea (including Southern France).
After settling for periods of time on their coasts, many of these ‘Out of Sapta Sindhu Migrants’ and/or their progeny traveled on and passed through the Straight of Gibraltar after which they even went around the Iberian Peninsula to settle in what is now Basque territory. 
From there, after they also left settlements behind on the French, Irish and English coasts, many migrants and/or their progeny, sailed through the English Channel to the North Sea’s many islands (now the Frisian and German islands, and the peninsula of Denmark).
Subsequently, between 3,500 to 2,000 years ago, also after leaving settlements behind, many migrants and/or their progeny also sailed to the shores of Scandinavia, and eventually many of them arrived on Northern Europe’s Finish and Baltic Sea coastal areas.

Ad 2. (See section  2. From the Indus Valley into North and South India within India to S, NE & Central Areas)
Other population segments took a westerly direction  within India from the Sapta Sindhu Valley to North, North-East, Central and Southern Indian regions. (More evidence and data will be provided.)
Throughout these migrations, which altogether may have taken up to 6,000 years, they took along with them their Proto-Sanskrit based language (even as it changed over time into various dialects), as well as a number of social and cultural aspects of the Late Indus Valley Civilization from their original homeland.
Ad 3. This further East overseas migrations to Sri Lanka, into Chinese Coastal areas, as far as the Pacific Ocean's archipelagos and South America, will be dealt with in in an upcoming extended version of this hypothesis. It is part of the prediction that evidence will be found 3.
Departure from any Classical and more Recent ‘Overland Theories’
Section 1 of this theory traces a novel pathway (seaway really) along which the Proto-Sanskrit speaking people from the Sapta Sindhu Valley brought their tongue to the European lands where its current inhabitants still speak Indo-European languages.
The radical difference between this ‘over-sea or coastal migration theory’ and the current consensus 'overland theories' about:
• the supposed origin of people groupings in continental, coastal as well as insular areas of Europe, 
• the origin of their languages and the manner acquisition,
lies in its departure from any classical and more recent ‘overland theories’ in which it is theorized that language, social and cultural characteristics were spread - presumably - via the Pannonian Plains (Slovenia), the Balkan, the Caucasus and the Eurasian Steppe Belt.

Please access my latest version:
"Mesolithic-Neolithic Seafaring Migrations from the Indus Valley into North and South India, Europe, China, the Pacific Archipelagos and South America"
Based on language, archaeogenetic, and archaeological data, this theory proposes that over an extended period between 9,500 and 3,350 BP large segments of the population of the north-western delta region of the Indian subcontinent (Sindh or the Indus Valley) left their homeland because of a number of natural catastrophes that took place.
One of those population segments took a westerly direction using their seaworthy vessels, and after passing south of the Arabian Peninsula, they sailed (and/or peddled) on via the Red Sea through the Suez region (mostly a channel then, not a canal as much of that area was inundated during that period), to the insular and coastal areas in and around the Mediterranean Sea (including Southern France).
After settling for periods of time on their coasts, many of these ‘Out-of-Sindh migrants’ traveled on, and, after passing through the Straight of Gibraltar, they even went around the Iberian Peninsula to settle in what is now Basque territory. 
From there, after they left settlements on the French, Irish and English coasts, many of these migrants sailed through the English Channel to the North Sea’s many islands (now the Frisian and German islands and the peninsula of Denmark).
Subsequently, between 3,000 to 2,000 BPE, also after having settled, many of the migrants also sailed to the shores of Scandinavia, and eventually many of them arrived on Northern Europe’s Finish and Baltic Sea coastal areas.

Throughout this migration, which altogether may have taken between 3,000 and 2,000 years, they took along with them their Proto-Sanskrit based language (even as it changed over time into various dialects), as well as a number of social and cultural aspects of the Late Indus Valley Civilization from their original homeland.

Thus, this theory traces a novel pathway (sea-way really) along which the Proto-Sanskrit speaking people from Sindh brought their tongue to the European lands where its current inhabitants still speak Indo-European languages.

The radical difference between this ‘over-sea theory’ and the current consensus 'over-land theories' about (a) the supposed origin of people groupings in continental, coastal as well as insular areas of Europe, and (b) the origin of their languages and the manner acquisition, lies in its departure from any classical and new ‘over-land theories’ in which language, social and cultural characteristics were spread, assumedly via the Caucasus, the Balkan, the Eurasian Steppe Belt and Pannonian Plain.

Note:
I am turning this article (it was originally an extended Oct. 2013 Facebook Note) into a proper thesis, but people urged me to publish what I have, right now...
So academically, it is still a somewhat poor offering, at least as far as thesis writing style goes.

The Indus Script sign  430 (Sinha), consisting of four vertical uprights that look like sticks/twigs/branches and a number of cross-wise horizontals that look like woven-like twigs, had been identified by S. M. Sullivan in her “Indus Script Dictionary” (2011) as the phoneme ‘gat’, which together with ‘ja’ forms the Sanskrit word ‘jagat’ - ‘world’, ‘people’.
Instead, I propose that it stands for the Sanskrit phoneme ‘gar’, as in ‘-nagar’, ‘garta’ - area, place (SP) and ‘gada’ - ‘fence’, ‘screen’, ‘enclosure’, (phonologically, the ‘d’ and ‘r’ are interchangeable). The grapheme resembles the way ‘wattle & daub’ walls and fences were constructed out of woven twigs.

Based on Hindu religion, tradition and culture, and supported by ancient (800 B.C.E and on) Sanskrit literature from India, it is generally accepted by those who through their involvement in meditation, yoga, reiki, etc. have acquired a more oriental or alternative view on what the human being in essence is, that there are seven major chakras within the human aura - or to say it differently, 'seven subtle energy centers within the etheric human bio-energy field'.
In the current literature that deals with the human aura and chakras, expressions like 'bio-energy field' and 'energy centers' are often used in conjunction with words like 'aura' and the Sanskrit term 'chakras'. 
The main purpose of this paper is not to provide 'yet another overview' of what chakras are, as there are many excellent writings on this already. Instead - as the significance for each chakra to have a specific number of petals is not generally known - the focus will be on the technical reasons why the chakras hold within themselves the specific number of petals that they are traditionally reported to contain. The relationship between the petals of each chakra and their links to the 25 major nerve pairs emanating from the spinal vertebrae will be described. Also a very little known chakra - the Coccyx Chakra,  - one of the eight (!) major chakras) - will be introduced and described.

Print version available.
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In a series of themed blog articles, the author investigates the dynamics and language of entrapment, dependency and suffering by uncovering the causes of the "apparent loss of human freedom"
He analyses how this innate and inherent
freedom came to be treated as only conditionally available, and how humankind was artificially made to believe that dependence and suffering define life more than freedom and happiness do, and to discover that the claim on unconditional freedom and happiness is not only warranted but realizable for
everyone.
Additionally, radically new insights are offered on topics that deal with intense meditation techniques, daringly novel scientific inklings.

A collection of blog essays, conversations and ruminations on:
. 'Innate Freedom' and the reclamation of it if seemingly lost,
. Identity, ego and pseudo-self,
. Awareness, reality and illusion,
.  The Buddha's Triple Gem and the Eightfold Path,
.  Impermanence and suffering,
. Pain, suffering and illusion,
.  Pleasure and pain,
.  Entrapment, subservience and apparent loss of freedom,
. The Integrated Yawning and Stretching Technique,
. Paradigm Updates.

This interview was first published online on MyIndMakers on Aug 05, 2016 https://www.myind.net/alphabet-or-abracadabra#.dpuf

"Alphabet or Abracadabra?" details the Wim Borsboom's research into how (by copying) and when (before 3400 years ago) the Western Alphabet character sequence (abecedary) was modelled after a pre-Sanskrit character grid or abugida.

Inspired by the Devanāgarī abugida grid of characters, Mr. Borsboom discovered this when he forced the western alphabet's character sequence (the ABC or 'abecedary') into a similar tabular format. He started out by lining up the vowels in one column and fitting the following consonants sequentially into three adjacent columns and rows.

By comparing the resultant 4x5 column-and-row table (which contained most of the 26 western characters) with a then still hypothetical earlier and simpler form of a pre-Sanskrit abugida character grid, he was able to draw clear dependent links between the western alphabet's sequence of characters and that early form of a pre-Sanskrit nāgarī abugida.

There were some interesting anomalies though, the origins of which Borsboom was able to successfully trace, identify and explain.
Using those anomalies, he could even trace and date one particular early copy process to its (up to now) earliest occurrence, namely one 1400 BCE alphabet artifact found amongst the Ugarit cuneiform tablets.

The book illustrated tracing the origin of the anomalies back to three errors made by an ancient, most likely Near Eastern linguist, who, apparently, must have been on a 'study visit' in India.

When we compare the two sequential formats (the abugida and the abecedary) superficially, that is, before the tracing of errors and before the tabular reconstruction - a percentage of similarity of only 20% (4 out of 20 characters) was calculated.
However, after the error identifications and while taking into account the varying but close pronunciations of a number of comparable characters in side-by-side alphabet and abugida grids, and also while focusing on the placement of nearly all Western-Late Roman characters in their appropriate vowel, labial, guttural and dental columns (as will be shown in detail) an 85.00% match between them is arrived at.

This study also demonstrates how the aforementioned Ugarit abecedary from Syria (1400 -1200 BCE) is evidence that even before it was inscribed in cuneiform, that an even older 'West-of-India' style irregular alphabetic sequence was already in use, also based on a very early form of a Pre-Sanskrit Brāhmī abugida.

A new appraisal of eight Harappa Culture seals which - based on various story themes from the Mahabharata (specifically, Book 13  - Anusasana Parva, Chapters 84-86) tell the story of Skanda and Shiva .
These  eight remarkable narrative cartoon-like seals are interpreted in much detail and are shown to depict the above mentioned Mahabhrata themes as follows:
1. Skanda's birth and the Kṛttikā (his six stepmothers).
2. Skanda's fighting and slaying of the asura bull-king Mahisha and the asura Taraka with a lance.
3. A number of gods presented a number of animals as gifts to Skanda for his successful slaying of the Asura King Mahisha.
4. A mango tree is featured in a story related to Skanda / Kirtikeya. The story relates how the evil king Surapadma turned himself into a mango tree, upon which Skanda / Kirtikeya splits the mango tree in half and a rooster and a peacock emerge from the split trunk's branches.
5. The accounts of Skanda's exploits have him go by many names: Kanda, Kumara, Kartikeya, Guha, Murugan, Velan (lance bearer), Shadanan (six-faced,  Skanda is often depicted with six faces. Remember he had six mothers.),  Shashthinathan (Skanda's victory in his fierce battle with Surapadma, celebrated in South India during 'Skanda Shashti'), Subrahmanya, etc.
6. According to Skanda's birth accounts his father was either Shiva or Agni (who is often equated with Shiva). Do these names appear on the seals? The name 'Shiva' does not appear in the Rig Veda nor does it seem to appear on the seals, however according to anthropologist Sue Sullivan's 'Indus Script Dictionary' the names Ravi, Agni and the word 'ma' or 'a' (often standing in for Shiva) appear numerous times on at least 40 seals.
7. The father of Skanda is Shiva / Ravi or Agni.
One of the seals shows Agni / Ravi's symbol (a wheel sign: 'ra') and is prominently shown.
8. The brother of Skanda was Ganesha the elephant God. On one seal the elephant appears prominently in relation to Skanda, and the elephant also appears on a number of other seals related to Skanda.

There is evidence of a possible migration of cultural or religious ideas or practices, or even the migration of Harappan Culture people to other parts of India, e.g. the Tamil South.
A certain story - the contest between Kirtikeya / Skanda and Ganesha - about who can circumnavigate the world the fastest and reach Shiva the first is shown to be related to this.
The loser (Kirtikeya / Skanda and his travel companions) or their descendants are shown to have ended up in East and South India, after leaving the Indus Valley... (Thus that story could not be depicted on any Indus Valley seals, as nobody who cared could have done that.  (One of a few rare instances where the 'absence of evidence' proves the 'evidence of absence'.

Additional questions that are discussed:
1. Are the seals predating the Skanda Purana and the Mahabharata?
2. Is the Rig Veda predating the seals?
3. What spoken language does the Indus Valley script represent?

A new appraisal of eight Harappa Culture seals which - based on various story themes from the Mahabharata (specifically, Book 13  - Anusasana Parva, Chapters 84-86) tell the story of Skanda and Shiva .
These  eight remarkable narrative cartoon-like seals are interpreted in much detail and are shown to depict the above mentioned Mahabhrata themes as follows:
1. Skanda's birth and the Kṛttikā (his six stepmothers).
2. Skanda's fighting and slaying of the asura bull-king Mahisha and the asura Taraka with a lance.
3. A number of gods presented a number of animals as gifts to Skanda for his successful slaying of the Asura King Mahisha.
4. A mango tree is featured in a story related to Skanda / Kirtikeya. The story relates how the evil king Surapadma turned himself into a mango tree, upon which Skanda / Kirtikeya splits the mango tree in half and a rooster and a peacock emerge from the split trunk's branches.
5. The accounts of Skanda's exploits have him go by many names: Kanda, Kumara, Kartikeya, Guha, Murugan, Velan (lance bearer), Shadanan (six-faced,  Skanda is often depicted with six faces. Remember he had six mothers.),  Shashthinathan (Skanda's victory in his fierce battle with Surapadma, celebrated in South India during 'Skanda Shashti'), Subrahmanya, etc.
6. According to Skanda's birth accounts his father was either Shiva or Agni (who is often equated with Shiva). Do these names appear on the seals? The name 'Shiva' does not appear in the Rig Veda nor does it seem to appear on the seals, however according to anthropologist Sue Sullivan's 'Indus Script Dictionary' the names Ravi, Agni and the word 'ma' or 'a' (often standing in for Shiva) appear numerous times on at least 40 seals.
7. The father of Skanda is Shiva / Ravi or Agni.
One of the seals shows Agni / Ravi's symbol (a wheel sign: 'ra') and is prominently shown.
8. The brother of Skanda was Ganesha the elephant God. On one seal the elephant appears prominently in relation to Skanda, and the elephant also appears on a number of other seals related to Skanda.

There is evidence of a possible migration of cultural or religious ideas or practices, or even the migration of Harappan Culture people to other parts of India, e.g. the Tamil South.
A certain story - the contest between Kirtikeya / Skanda and Ganesha - about who can circumnavigate the world the fastest and reach Shiva the first is shown to be related to this.
The loser (Kirtikeya / Skanda and his travel companions) or their descendants are shown to have ended up in East and South India, after leaving the Indus Valley... (Thus that story could not be depicted on any Indus Valley seals, as nobody who cared could have done that.  (One of a few rare instances where the 'absence of evidence' proves the 'evidence of absence'.

Additional questions that are discussed:
1. Are the seals predating the Skanda Purana and the Mahabharata?
2. Is the Rig Veda predating the seals?
3. What spoken language does the Indus Valley script represent?

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A collection of essays, conversations and ruminations on:
(1) 'Innate Freedom' and the reclamation of it, if seemingly lost.
(2) Identity, ego and pseudo-self,
(3) Awareness, reality and illusion,
(4) The Buddha's Triple Gem and the Eightfold Path,
(5) Impermanence and suffering,
(6) Pain, suffering and illusion,
(7) Pleasure and pain,
(8) Entrapment, subservience and apparent loss of freedom,
(9) Kundalini.

A surprise awaits the reader who accompanies the writer on his investigation into the dynamics and language of entrapment, dependency and suffering while he endeavors to uncover the causes of apparent loss of human freedom.
Witness how he digs up clue after clue on how this innate and inherent freedom came to be treated as only conditionally available.
You are invited to look over his shoulders and find out with him how humankind was made to believe that dependence and suffering define life more than freedom and happiness do, and to discover that the claim on unconditional freedom and happiness is not only warranted but realizable for everyone.

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Wim Borsboom in his 'Alphabet or Abracadabra?' has hit upon a brilliant idea related to the origins of the Western alphabet. He shows that in its basic form, it is similar to the scientifically organized Sanskrit alphabet. This research is of importance not only to the student of alphabets but also to the historian and the layperson interested in understanding cultural interactions in the ancient world.
-- Subhash Kak, Regents Professor, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater (Co-author, with Feuerstein and Frawley of "In search of the cradle of civilazation"

'Alphabet or Abracadabra?' takes the reader on a fascinating brief trip through the history of real magic; reading and writing.'
- - S. M. Sulllivan (Author of "The Indus Scipt Dictionary")

"...the paper is simply brilliant stuff. [...] This is serendipity at its finest. [...] the tabulation similarity of ABCD [abcedary] with Panini's ordering [abugida] is totally new and totally brilliant. [...] this reordering is IMO on par with a description of Fleming's discovery of Penicillin that I read in a medical paper decades ago. [...]
It is serendipity - the act of noticing that hair behind a leaf in a bush and discovering an entire furry animal behind it. "
- Shiv

"...a booklet created by my friend, original thinker along the lines of Vartak, Einstein, Newton and Kepler. So expect flight of fancy, joy of speculation and wonderful research."
- Nilesh Oak

"ABCD or ABRACADABRA? I loved his hypothesis! And it is really breaking new ground."
- RajeshA

"This booklet is one of a few brilliant Jewels – the only works worth mentioning post Rosetta Stone"

"[...] there are few brilliant gems. I plan to write about them in future, however, for now, I want to state them. Curious readers will explore them right away.
(1) ‘Indus Script Dictionary’ by Shrimati Sue Sullivan
(2) ‘Rigveda-A Historical Analaysis’ by Shri Shrikant Talageri
(3) ‘Rigveda and the Avesta – The Final Evidence’ also by Shri Shrikant Talageri
(4) ‘Alphabet or Abracadabra? – Reverse Engineering the Western Alphabet’ by Shri Wim Borsboom

Please copy/paste the following link to watch the video presentation of this novel "Global Holocene Out of India Seafaring and Land-crossing Migration Hypothesis".
https://youtu.be/jps0UJYxxRE

Overview

Based on the latest genetic data as well as linguistic evidence, it is shown that these seafaring Indus Valley people migrated in wave-like fashion to a vast number of coastal lands and islands THROUGHOUT the world.

While they settled and mixed with local populations, they introduced their culture and skills, but ALSO their Sanskrit language.

That the language they spoke was indeed Sanskrit, is based on the discovery of numerous narrative, cartoon-like depictions engraved on dozens of Indus Valley seals, showing story themes that appear in the earliest Sanskrit literature... the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and the Puranas.

Over time, their Sanskrit and the local tongues intermixed, and formed various dialects which eventually developed into a variety of Indo-European languages, but not only in Europe, the Malayo-Polynesian languages in the Pacific Ocean also acquired Sanskrit characteristics.

These multiple group migrations took three main directions, following three distinct routes:

• Route 1
Migrations along the coasts of what is now Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, through the Red Sea to the Mediterranean lands (including northern Africa), and subsequently via the Strait of Gibraltar to the North Sea’s coastal lands, and from there to the Scandinavian and Baltic Sea coastal regions.

• Route 2
By land migrations within India into north, north east, central and southern Indian regions, where the migrants merged with existing populations and cultures.
Shore hugging oversea migration also took place around India’s mainland coasts.

• Route 3
Further east oversea, via Sri Lanka, Central Asia, to the Pacific Ocean's coastal lands and archipelagos, and the Americas, and, according to the latest findings even to Australia.

Please copy/paste the following link to watch the video presentation of this novel "Global Holocene Out of India Seafaring and Land-crossing Migration Hypothesis".

https://youtu.be/jps0UJYxxRE

Wim Borsboom 's novel "Out of India Migration Hypothesis" (OIT) disproving "Aryan Invasion Theory" (AIT)

A YouTube Presentation for "The Eternal Hindu".
https://youtu.be/jps0UJYxxRE

Overview:

Global Holocene Seafaring and Landcrossing Out of India Migrations:

Based on genetic data as well as linguistic evidence, it is shown that ancient seafaring Indus Valley people migrated in wave-like fashion to a vast number of coastal lands and islands THROUGHOUT the world.

While they settled and mixed with local populations, they introduced their culture and skills, but ALSO their Sanskrit language.

That the language they spoke was indeed Sanskrit, is based on the discovery of numerous narrative, cartoon-like depictions engraved on dozens of Indus Valley seals, showing story themes that appear in the earliest Sanskrit literature... the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and the Puranas.

Over time, their Sanskrit and the local tongues intermixed, and formed various dialects which eventually developed into a variety of Indo-European languages, but not only in Europe, the Malayo-Polynesian languages in the Pacific Ocean also acquired Sanskrit characteristics.

These multiple group migrations took three main directions, following three distinct routes:

• Route 1
Migrations along the coasts of what is now Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, through the Red Sea to the Mediterranean lands (including northern Africa), and subsequently via the Strait of Gibraltar to the North Sea’s coastal lands, and from there to the Scandinavian and Baltic Sea coastal regions.

• Route 2
By land migrations within India into north, north east, central and southern Indian regions, where the migrants merged with existing populations and cultures.
Shore hugging oversea migration also took place around India’s mainland coasts.

• Route 3
Further east oversea, via Sri Lanka, Central Asia, to the Pacific Ocean's coastal lands and archipelagos, and the Americas, and, according to the latest findings even to Australia.

https://youtu.be/jps0UJYxxRE