Connexion of Mongolia-Kirat:Revealing the Mystery of Origin of Phallus Stone Worship
Connexion of Mongolia and Kirat in Nepal Revealing the Mystery of Origin of Phallus Stone Worship.
Now Kirat are very ancient tribe in history. They are the foremost settlers in the Himalayas region which was called "Kirat Desh" or "land of Kirat" in Veda and other ancient Hindu texts. Actually nobody knows when they came into Nepal because these people are mentioned in ancient religion book of Hindu like Veda, Puranas, and Ramayana and Mahabharata Epics. These people are also mentioned in ancient Greek history, Chinese history and Holy book of Sikh Guru Nanak.
Kiratas are first mentioned in the Yajurveda (Shukla XXX.16; Krisha III.4,12,1), and in the Atharvaveda (X.4,14).
These people are described in the ancient texts as indigenous people of Mongolian race, "gold-like", i.e, yellow in skin color with stout and short stature, high cheekbones, flat noses, narrow black eyes and thin mustaches and beards. They were brave and doughty warriors and very deft archers as described in
the following verse;
"Kairatam vesam asthaya kancana-druma-sannibham"
Taking up a Kirata resemblance, like unto a tree of gold (IV,35,2);
The Vedas, Ramayana and Mahabharata viewed them as fearful and terrible highlanders. The Ramayana describes:
"Kiratasca tiksna-cudasca hemabhah priya-darsanah,
antar-jala-cara ghora nara-vyaghra iti srutah"
upon translation is
The Kiratas, with hair done in pointed top-knots, pleasant to look upon, shining
like gold, able to move under water, terrible, veritable tiger-men, so are they famed.
Sir John Hammerton in his work "Early Races of Mankind" wrote that the Kiratas had originated from Assyria and their roots were at Babylon of Semitic family in ancient south Mesopotamia region. The term Kirat is a corrupt form of Kiriat, Kiryat or Kirjath which means a fort or town in Moabite language of the Mediterranean region.
The Greeks known the Kirats by the name of Kirhadai. The last remnant of the ancient Kiratite or Cherethite tribe was found recorded in the book of 2 Samuel, 15 - 18. They were a martial tribe during the reign of the Syrian King David in 1049 BC.
Hence it is not surprising that phallus stone worship has also been found to be in practice in the ancient Babylon.
Shiv Kumar Tiwari quoted " The non-Aryans tribals practices of worshiping the phallus emblem was very much similar to the worship of the Phallus of Orisis in ancient Egypt, Priapus in ancient Greece, Mylitta(the goddess of fertility), in ancient Babylon and of the phallus emblem Mutinus in ancient Rome."(Tribal roots of Hinduism)
So did the practice of phallus stone worship felled into the hands of vedic Aryans? You decide?
For more information about these unique people, watch the video "Sakela~the greatest festival of Kirat People"