Devbhumi or the Land of the Gods is often identified as in the High Glacier area in the state of Uttarakhand, India, and borders Tibet on the North and Nepal on the East.
Here is found a glacial lake called Roopkund. The region of the lake is uninhabited other than some who are outdoors enthisiasts in mountain climbing and who trek the area.
Uninhabited but here in this shallow lake are found hundreds and hundreds of human bones. You can see them in the shallow parts of the lake, when the snow melts, sometimes along the shore.
There were writings in the 1800's of the lake of bones in that region, but despite the testimony of those who trekked there, despite the words of yogis and renunciates - no one believed. Some said a much older scripture from long, long ago referenced the lake of bones, but no one believed.
But then in 1942, a game reserve agent "discovered" the lake, now more like a very large pond, and the bones. He did not know about "the stories" from the past - he thought these must be the bones of Japanese soldiers who attempted an attack on India but died in the lake when trying to cross it while frozen and a storm must of taken them.
But iron spear heads were later found.
Today a study was made, there was still some human flesh found on some bones, preserved in the frigid climat.
The DNA of this flesh indicated most were of Iranian ancestry and some from a Brahmin community from Maharashtra West India.
Iran is quite far from this area. To reach India one would head East from Iran, cross Afghanistan, modern Pakistan, then climb high into this area, this glacial frozen area, to this frozen lake which is covered by snow most of the time but then one month the snow melts fully revealing the clear waters of this glacial lake ... and exposing the human bones in the clear water.
Then some scientists dated the bones which had to be from as far back as the early 800 AD but no later than that.
Why? Why would hundreds of Iranians and many Maharashtrians travel so far to North India then into the Himalayas to this glacial lake?
And then die likely from some enormous hailstorm? In such an uninhabited place? They assume it was a hailstorm because studies showed that the skulls were cracked in the back by some sort of impact. And there are legends that speak of some King and his family, servants and cooks traveled to this area when they left to a temple of a Devi known as Nanda Devi. Long ago they said there were treasures at this temple. But they all were killed.
A thousand years ago or more, hundreds of people, both Indians and Iranians, traveled far to that place, to that glacial lake. They all died suddenly. Their skulls were cracked.
There is a local bhajan or song of the larger Himalayan region there that tells of the Goddess who killed foreigners who came to Her place in the mountains but then purposely defiled her temple to steal the treasures of the Goddess so Devi killed them by pelting them with hail that was hard as iron.
Personally, I think the song is correct. Foreigners came a long time ago to the Temple of a Devi, not to worship but to steal some treasures from the temple. Then the Devi killed them. She took back the treasures.
The treasures are still there.
Here is found a glacial lake called Roopkund. The region of the lake is uninhabited other than some who are outdoors enthisiasts in mountain climbing and who trek the area.
Uninhabited but here in this shallow lake are found hundreds and hundreds of human bones. You can see them in the shallow parts of the lake, when the snow melts, sometimes along the shore.
There were writings in the 1800's of the lake of bones in that region, but despite the testimony of those who trekked there, despite the words of yogis and renunciates - no one believed. Some said a much older scripture from long, long ago referenced the lake of bones, but no one believed.
But then in 1942, a game reserve agent "discovered" the lake, now more like a very large pond, and the bones. He did not know about "the stories" from the past - he thought these must be the bones of Japanese soldiers who attempted an attack on India but died in the lake when trying to cross it while frozen and a storm must of taken them.
But iron spear heads were later found.
Today a study was made, there was still some human flesh found on some bones, preserved in the frigid climat.
The DNA of this flesh indicated most were of Iranian ancestry and some from a Brahmin community from Maharashtra West India.
Iran is quite far from this area. To reach India one would head East from Iran, cross Afghanistan, modern Pakistan, then climb high into this area, this glacial frozen area, to this frozen lake which is covered by snow most of the time but then one month the snow melts fully revealing the clear waters of this glacial lake ... and exposing the human bones in the clear water.
Then some scientists dated the bones which had to be from as far back as the early 800 AD but no later than that.
Why? Why would hundreds of Iranians and many Maharashtrians travel so far to North India then into the Himalayas to this glacial lake?
And then die likely from some enormous hailstorm? In such an uninhabited place? They assume it was a hailstorm because studies showed that the skulls were cracked in the back by some sort of impact. And there are legends that speak of some King and his family, servants and cooks traveled to this area when they left to a temple of a Devi known as Nanda Devi. Long ago they said there were treasures at this temple. But they all were killed.
A thousand years ago or more, hundreds of people, both Indians and Iranians, traveled far to that place, to that glacial lake. They all died suddenly. Their skulls were cracked.
There is a local bhajan or song of the larger Himalayan region there that tells of the Goddess who killed foreigners who came to Her place in the mountains but then purposely defiled her temple to steal the treasures of the Goddess so Devi killed them by pelting them with hail that was hard as iron.
Personally, I think the song is correct. Foreigners came a long time ago to the Temple of a Devi, not to worship but to steal some treasures from the temple. Then the Devi killed them. She took back the treasures.
The treasures are still there.
