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[Aupmanyav]

egg-shaped stones found by farmers in dhar district of madhya pradesh and worshiped as family deities as 'kakar bhairav' (shiva of the land) were found to be tyrannosaur eggs by archaelogists.

MP News: Worshipped as ‘kuldevta’ in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar, totems turn out to be fossilised dino eggs | Lucknow News - Times of India

Faith can move mountains. In MP's Dhar, it was moving palm-sized "stone balls" till a band of experts determined them to be fossilised dinosaur eggs.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

 

[Unseeking seeker]

Interesting. Correlate this with Hiranyagarbha, the cosmic egg, which incidentally is in the head ovoid (coincidence?).

Hiranyagarbha - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Aupmanyav]

yeah, hiranyagarbha is ovoid, but the villagers most probably may not have heard of 'hiranyagarbha' of vedas. village hindus.

 

[sayak83]

egg-shaped stones found by farmers in dhar district of madhya pradesh and worshiped as family deities as 'kakar bhairav' (shiva of the land) were found to be tyrannosaur eggs by archaelogists.

MP News: Worshipped as ‘kuldevta’ in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar, totems turn out to be fossilised dino eggs | Lucknow News - Times of India

Faith can move mountains. In MP's Dhar, it was moving palm-sized "stone balls" till a band of experts determined them to be fossilised dinosaur eggs.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Interesting. But they can be both....ie both T Rex egg and family deity.
In fact I would be hard pressed to find a better earthly symbol of the Nataraja dance of life, death and time that the eggs of these wonderous creatures whose lineage was destroyed by one of the greatest interstellar calamities earth had ever witnessed...and yet whose memory was preserved through the long slow process of fossilization over the eons.

 

[Aupmanyav]

yeah, one can take anything for an idol. so, what is wrong with fossilized dinosaur eggs for nataraja?
we do use ammonite stones for lord vishnu - shaligram.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Two-tonne bell, one-tonne lamp; gifts pour in for Rama temple from India, abroad.

Two-tonne bell, 1-tonne lamp: Gifts pour in for Ram temple from India, abroad

More than 3,000 gifts for Lord Ram from Sita's birthplace in Janakpur in Nepal have arrived in Ayodhya.

www.rediff.com

Note: One Lakh is a hundred thousand.