Harappan wheel seal

A seal from the mature Harappan period, the time when the civilisation was at its peak (2600 BC to 1900 BC), which was discovered in Rajasthan few years ago...It depicts a bull, sacred fig leaf, a wheel and another symbol which looks like a rake...

The climatic year in Rajasthan consists of dry period (Nov-Apr) and wet, monsoon period (May-Oct)...

Just before the beginning of the wet season is the hottest part of the year in Rajasthan. This is when the sacred fig sheds its leaves only to regrow them again just when the first rains start...

The bull on the seal is Auroch, Eurasian wild cattle. The beginning of the wet season (end of April, start of May), falls in Taurus (Bull). I talked about this in my post "Ram and Bull". And the rain season basically covers the whole summer, which is symbolised by a bull. I talked about this in my post "Symbols of the seasons"

The wheel is very very interesting. Here it is on another cylindrical Indus Valley tablet. I talked about this artefact in my post "Musth"...

It symbolises sun and rain. It is the symbol of the sun god and the rain god. Of the sky god...Well it is in Slavic mythology where it is the symbol of Svetovid (sun god) and Perun (rain god). The rain season arrives in Rajasthan at the hottest part of the year...Interesting...

I have no idea what the rake means...Just before the rains start, in the middle of Taurus, is the driest part of the year. And the time when grain is harvested in Rajasthan...Does this rake has anything to do with harvest? No idea...

But Taurus was bloody important time of the year for Harappans...

Someone asked me "why refer to symbolism in Slavic mythology to explain all this?"

Because without Slavic mythology and folklore we wouldn't have been able to decipher any of it. The original keys were found in there...Why and how? Slavs seem to have preserved a lot of old stuff which they inherited from their many ancestors (look at their genes)...

Indian tradition has no explanation for any of this...