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Trimurti
 The thirty-two-year-old Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia had spent the past thirteen years conquering much of the known world. He vanquished all who challenged his authority. In the process, he created an empire that reached from Macedonia through Greece and the Persian Empire to the fringes of India.

 He left his body suddenly in in early June 323 BC. His empire was carved up by his generals and soon disintegrated. During the first 50 years after Alexander's demise, they fought a series of wars, named Wars of the Diadochi. All the cities, monuments and libraries were destroyed.

 To avoid such destruction Mongolians developed hundreds of giant geoglyphs with earthen mounds and timber found stretched across the landscape and are visible in northern Kazakhstan. In the 13th century, Kazakhstan was under the dominion of the Mongol Empire and was under the control of a succession of rulers of the Golden Horde, the western branch of the Mongol Empire!

 There are rings, crosses, circles, squares, and a swastika are some of the many intricate designs of the enigmatic and ancient geoglyphs, large designs or motifs piled up mounds of earth in the shapes of birds, deer, turtles, bears and panthers, along with less elaborate shapes and structures like cones and rectangles and spread across the vast Mongolian Empire as the cradle of civilization.

 The Geoglyphs are more commonly known as the Nazca Lines that fall into two categories. In the first group, there are about 70 have been identified as natural objects, such as animals, birds, and insects. The second group is made from lines that have been drawn using a single line that never crosses itself, and believed to be an appeal to the gods to bring rain. Archaeologists call them the Nazca lines of Kazakhstan

 These huge artworks created by cultures around the world, usually representing animals or intricate geometric figures. These incredible drawings were obviously meant to be seen from the air and they are actually visible from the surrounding foothills.

 These ancient designs give us a glimpse into societies of the past. These enormous geoglyphs remain a mystery to this day, and have attracted interested among the scientific community and triggering intriguing debates about their true meaning and purposes. The question is who and why created these gigantic representations that were designed with extreme precision and often still leave researchers with more questions than answers. Whether they were used to track the movement of the sun or have served as a family or tribal symbols or were a means of marking ownership of the land. Researchers are trying to build collaboration in order to interpret their purpose and dating with greater accuracy.

 These mysterious constructions that can be seen from miles away and look like a branched candlestick as a representation of Trimurti ("three forms") is the trinity of supreme divinity in which the cosmic functions of creation, maintenance, and destruction are personified as a triad of pre Vedic deities, Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer/regenerator worshipped by the nomadic people who once lived at Indus Valley. A triple deity, also referred to as threefold, triplet, triplicate, tripartite, triune or triadic, or as a trinity is three deities that are worshipped as one. The classical Greek Trinity is known as the Olympic triad of Zeus (king of the gods), Athena (goddess of war and intellect) and Apollo (god of the sun, culture, and music). The Hellenistic Egypt triad of Isis, Serapis, and Apollo and the Roman Capitoline Triad is Jupiter (father), Juno (wife), and Minerva (daughter). The sky god Tengri is attested by several Siberian peoples including the Mongols as a triple deity. Such deities are common throughout world mythology.

 Read "Khan the Great" and know more about the Geoglyphs that are the cradle of civilization… Sivkishen Ji, Author

