From the Lord of Animals to the Nataraja
A traceable symbolic continuity from Mehrgarh (c. 7000 BCE) to the Nataraja bronze at CERN — nine thousand years in which a single symbolic complex encoding wildness, sovereignty, and cosmic generation survived civilisational collapse, migration, religious conquest, and scientific revolution.
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