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Indus valley - Mohenjo-Daro - 03 The Citadel
Identifier
022611
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
The overall plan is Egg shaped
A description of the experience
The Citadel was a mud-brick mound around 12 metres (39 ft) high. It is known to have supported a step well, a large residential structure designed to house about 5,000 citizens, and two large assembly halls [temples]. The city had a central ‘marketplace’ [the dance floor], with a large central well [sacred well - Individual households or groups of households obtained their water from smaller wells].
The Mound has a very distinctive structure at its peak, which though eroded and called by some a ‘stupa’, has all the signs of being a ziggurat. The interest is in whether it was round originally or square, as if it was square, it would have been a true ziggurat and, even better, would have been the matching structure to the Great Bath. The Ziggurat is the symbol of the Conscious and ascent, the bath, the symbol of the Subconscious and descent.
The source of the experience
ShaivismConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Sacred geographySacred geography - altars
Sacred geography - beacons
Sacred geography - bridges
Sacred geography - citadel
Sacred geography - islands
Sacred geography - ley lines
Sacred geography - natural hills
Sacred geography - palace
Sacred geography - rivers and streams
Sacred geography - step wells
Sacred geography - water sites
Sacred geography - ziggurat
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Commonsteps
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