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Praveen Mohan reads sculpture at the Thirumayyam temple as biology. The video asks whether humans were genetically modified twelve thousand years ago in ancient India. The panels he shows are ones he dates to about twelve hundred years. A lingam between two serpent figures is compared with a double helix, and a man holding a thin cylinder with a vial, beneath forms he calls an egg. In a corner for the naga fertility gods, twisted serpents stand beside humanlike bodies coming out of them. He asks whether Shiva brought gene altering skill, and whether myths of gods making plants and animals mean species were edited. A cow licking a nursing calf is praised as accurate natural history, the act now called allogrooming. Hybrid creatures, one of them a lionlike face with a human nose and no ears, are set beside a lab mouse that grew a human ear. Unexplained knots of beads become, in his guess, a magnified view of genetic material. He offers no experiment, only that reading, and the question whether people were designed.
Key points
- Mohan reads a lingam between two nagas, and a held cylinder, as helix, vial, and cell.
- He says the temple repeats egg and sperm imagery, including a naga corner where humanlike figures emerge from snakes.
- He asks whether Shiva is being shown as the bringer of gene altering skill.
- Animal panels, including a cow grooming a nursing calf, are offered as accurate behavioral records.
- Hybrid creatures are compared with modern tissue work and with a bill against human animal combinations.
- Unexplained bead and string knots are his guess at magnified genetic material, not decoration.
Short quotes
No, the temple is full of such carvings, oddly resembling egg cells.
Praveen Mohan, Thirumayyam carvings and DNA
He denies that the cell like panel is a one off accident. Watch at 1:57
Is it possible that Shiva, brought this advanced technology of DNA manipulation and genetic engineering to our planet?
Praveen Mohan, Thirumayyam carvings and DNA
His larger question is whether a god in the myth brought gene craft from elsewhere. Watch at 4:00
If we dig deeper, we realize it is mostly because of the genetic code or DNA.
Praveen Mohan, Thirumayyam carvings and DNA
He traces animal temperament to inherited code rather than to size or setting. Watch at 8:30
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