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<strong>AllatRa</strong> <strong>by</strong> <strong>Anastasia</strong> <strong>Novykh</strong><br />

it is endowed with the characteristics of the Front aspect. And it is no coincidence that<br />

the symbol of one horn is shown here.<br />

By the way, you know, I was surprised to discover that seals of the Harappan<br />

civilization had a common motive of a sacred mythical creature with a horn (scientists<br />

call it the unicorn) shown next to the sacred (spiritual) symbols. For me, it was a very<br />

intriguing discovery, given all that you have told us earlier about this creature.<br />

Rigden: The unicorn has been one of the symbols of the Front aspect since ancient<br />

times, and it encourages a spiritually pure person to connect with his Soul and to escape<br />

the circle of rebirths. It personified the aspiration in only one direction, the spiritual one,<br />

and, therefore, it was endowed with the qualities that are typical for a person in the<br />

course of his spiritual development: purity, honour, wisdom, strength, courage, and<br />

doing good; it was also associated with the forces of Allat, the divine purity of the<br />

feminine principle (myths of the Virgin and the Unicorn).<br />

Figure 54. Symbol in the form of unicorns on a seal of the Proto-Indian civilization<br />

(the Harappan civilization; the 3rd-2nd millennium BCE; the Indus Valley, South Asia).<br />

The two unicorns on the seal (the neck and the horns are shown, indicating the helical<br />

structure) with a circle in the middle form a conventional symbolic sign of Allat with a<br />

circle (the <strong>AllatRa</strong> symbol); above it, there is a rhombic structure and seven large<br />

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