Sarasvati

One of the most exciting discoveries emerging is the ancient very intricate Sarasvati culture. As described in the Rig-Veda (which is now being quickly understood as the worlds oldest accurate historical document) the Sarasvati once involved a huge seafaring empire with a very developed system of agriculture, canals, ports, and the boats were accounted as among those that would arrive at the giant pyramid lighthouses every year during monsoon when they would become giant loading docks for the Pharoh.

Along with the confirmation of the existence of this empire in other historical texts, there are over 2,000 archaological digs going on along the bed of the old sarasvati river this upcoming summer. The government of India is very enthusiastic about these finds.

Over four thousand years ago this river began to dry up, and eventually the higher tributaries shifted to another river...essentially towards the Ganges...probably during an earthquake.  The civilisation was very complex, and like Catal Huyuk in Turkey much older and more populated that our common understanding of history today holds.

  The dry riverbeds of the Sarasvati have yielded obsidian which is gathered by the ancestors who still wander there, amking music and soaking the stones in heated honey they gather the obsidian from the cliff walls. The source of striped stones beloved far and wide. They build big fires on the stone and then shatter it with cold water from the remaining springs. Working it this way into beads for thousands of years.

   For some time the history was read as a matriarchal civilisation, the "Indus" which was seen as being overtaken and dominated by marauding patriarchal horsemen. Some would say "aryans". We now know that the cattle herders on horseback and the settled agriculturalists in harmony were in fact the same people.  In response to changing conditions they deployed earlier skills, migrating each year until at last the migration took them onto a long road.

    After much study in this area, it is easy to conclude that this is more likely the origin of the people who we today call "Romani" (who are actually many groups).  The common language is clearly from India, and many groups which live in the area of the old Sarasvati are considered to be Roman, including the Banjara. Read the Mudras. It is all in the dance.

Most of our ideas about the Roman were formed based on history established during Byzantine times, a very contradictoriy set of views and records remain from that time, it is an era seldom sorted out.

My traced maps of the ancient silk road kept flapping at me yesterday whispering to me to write about Sarasvati on Zaadtz.