Sycamore tree goddess

Sycamore tree goddess, originally Hathor, and later Isis, both goddess of flood, or Nut, goddess of Heavenly Nile (Milky Way), pouring water which is depicted with ankh (life) symbols inside it...Tomb, Siwa Oasis, 400-600 BC. Egypt...

Why would a goddess of flood be depicted as a sycamore fig tree?

Most likely because sycamore bears fruit between May and Sep...

The time of the rise of the water level in the Nile. Which means that the sycamore full of fruit announces the arrival of the flood, the thing that makes life possible in Egypt...

I talked about Hather, the sycamore tree and the Nile flood in my post "Holy cow"...

And in my post "The white calf", in which I tried to answer the question why is this white calf standing between two sycamore trees under a red sun? 

Why was Nile Flood water depicted containing ankh (life) symbols? Cause the Annual Nile flood is what makes life possible in the Nile Valley, what originally created Egypt and what recreates it every year...Without the annual Nile flood there would be no Egypt...I talk about this in my post "Beautiful boy"...

BTW, Speaking about Ankh = Water, check my post "Goddess on a horse"...

Post in which I talk about the link between ankh, papyrus (flowers at the beginning of the Nile flood), lotus (flowers at the peak of the Nile flood) and the flood...And few other related things...

You also might like this: Baboons feed on figs in a sycamore tree on a painting in the tomb of Khnumhotep at Beni Hasan c. 1950 BC…

Both Sycamore tree and Baboons were animal calendar markers found imbedded in parts of Egyptian mythology related to water and flood. I talk about this in my post "Baboon"...

Finally I think that it's very interesting that we find "sacred fig goddess" in both Ancient Egypt and Ancient Indus Valley civilisations...

Check my post "Sacred fig goddess", in which I talk about the Indian one (different fig same link to water, this time monsoon rain water) with references to the Egyptian one...And about plant and animal calendar markers in both cultures...

That's that. 

If you are interested in reading more about ancient animal and plant calendar markers, which are at the root of all our mythologies, start here…Then check my twitter threads I still didn't convert to blog post...I am way way behind...

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...