White rhino

A 2334-2154 BC cylinder seal depicting Indian elephants, rhinos and crocodiles, all animal calendar markers for monsoon season. 

Made somewhere in Indus Valley Civilisation and found outside of Uruk, ziggurat of Ur, in Akkad, during Saragon II era. Pic plate 61 from "Stratified cylinder seals from Diyala region"...

What does this all mean? Maybe animal calendar markers can help us figure this out. Again...

Indian crocodiles all hatch during the monsoon season...

It is because of this that crocodile is the vehicle of Varuna, the old rain god...

I talked about this in my posts "Makara", "Yakshi", "Maruts"...

BTW, we find Indian Crocodile as an animal calendar marker for the monsoon season during Indus Valley Civilisation. I talked about this in my post "Proto Durga" in which I analyse the scene depicted on this Harappan clay tablet with a "narrative scene"...

And in my post "Mohenjo Daro boat tablet" in which I try to answer the question: Why is the central hut of this flat bottomed river boat depicted oo this 2500–1750 BC Mohenjo-Daro tablet flanked by two date palm trees? 

In the Rigveda, Indra, the thunder and rain god, is associated with a white (cloud) elephant named Airavata...

Why? Indian elephants mate during Indian monsoon season...

This is another proof that Rig Vedas had to have been written in India proper, cause this link between rain gods and elephants makes no sense anywhere else...

I talk about elephant calendar marker in India in my posts "Musth", "Samantabhadra", "Modesty", "Ganesha"...

What about the Indian rhino? I never talked about this animal as an animal calendar marker before. These rhinos breed all year round. So their mating, birthing can't be used as animal calendar marker for monsoon season...

But what they do during monsoon season is that these usually solitary animals form large groups, which then together wallow in the mud. A lot. A lot more than during any other time of the year...

Which means that this wallowing during monsoon season can be used as an animal calendar marker for monsoon season...

So every animal on this strange Indus Valley Civilisation seal found outside of Uruk, ziggurat of Ur, in Akkad is an animal calendar marker for the rain monsoon season in India. Really cool find.

That's it. To read more about ancient animal and plant calendar markers, start here…Then check my twitter threads I still didn't convert to blog post...I am way way behind...