MOTHER HILLS

by

Subhashis Das

The hill in the background is the reclining form of the pregnant Mother Goddess. Note the bulge  in the middle of the hill; this is the impregnated belly of the Goddess. 

Why did the ancients build the megaliths where they are…did they raise their monuments at these places at random? 

Study has shown me that hills were prerequisites for the erection of megaliths as they are the outer periphery of the megalithic shrines. Or plainly speaking without hills in the horizon megaliths in India were not raised.

Megalithism is believed to have flourished around the ubiquitous Mother Goddess…an accessory of the now defunct fertility cult.

The Punkri Burwadih megaliths are artistically positioned between two breasts shaped hills to the Due East.

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Megaliths being female temples many of such monuments have been seen to be aligned to triangular hills. Triangular hills are male principles and their adjoining to the female megaliths suggests the sacred union.

Many circular shaped hills were considered the breasts of the Mother Goddess all over the world...in India there are many such hills known as "Maithan" meaning the Mother's breasts.

Note how two menhirs have been positioned to frame the Recumbant Mother Goddess form of the hill in the horizon.

Another form of a hill which replicated a reclining pregnant woman was accepted as the representation of the pregnant recumbent Mother Goddess during primitive times the world over. Many megaliths have been found to be aligned to such hills.

Hills in India are worshipped not only by the Hindus but even by the megalithic or non megalithic tribes. To the Hindus they are called "pahar" or "pahari" and to the austric Mundari tribes, hills are "buru" and their supreme most deity is "Marang Buru".

©Subhahsis Das