The Indus Civilization c6.15

c6.15

Another most interesting seal-amulet depicts quite a different religious subject. Here a horned goddess is shown in the midst of a *pipal*, or sacred fig-tree, before which another horned deity is kneeling and doing obeisance (Pl. M, 8). Both the goddess and her worshipper wear long plaits of hair, have their arms adorned with many bangles, and in the case of the latter, and possibly of the former as well, there is a floral or leafy spray springing from the head between the horns. Behind the worshipper a goat with a human face looks on with evident interest. A row of seven spirits, or deities, facing the opposite way to the scene above, occupies the whole of the lower register of the seal-amulet, each figure wearing a sprig on the head, a long pigtail behind, but no horns.