IVC symbols- Twisted bird symbol variants.

IVC symbols- The twisted bird symbol variants

This twisted bird symbol appears in the ‘Indus Script’, whereas in Egyptian hieroglyphics, it appears in the ‘plucked bird’ sign. Below is the reference to the Wikipedia page on plucked bird hieroglyphs. (List of Egyptian Hieroglyphs)

Hieroglyph symbol	Gardiner’s list reference number	Description	Transliteration	Notes
	G54	Plucked bird	To wring (Bird’s neck)	Determinant for the Egyptian idea ‘Twist the neck of a bird.’

Table details courtesy -Wikipedia.

The above-given description gives only the idea ‘to wring the neck of a bird‘. It does not provide the real meaning of this hieroglyph, whereas the Hieroglyphic Dictionary of Wallis Budge gives a sense of ‘fear’. (27)

Out of all triplets of symbols in the frequency table of Iravatham Mahadevan, one

triplet is important, and it occurs 37 times. That triplet is as follows: These symbols should be read together as fear of the wrath of the God Osiris/Yama/ Varuna. I have already explained in a separate article that the ‘X’ symbol could indicate the death god ‘Yama’. See that article for more information on the symbol ‘X’ and the god ‘Yama/ Varuna’.

I have already given a detailed analysis of this twisted bird symbol in my earlier book. However, one of the variants appears frequently. Hence, the need for this analysis. The variants of the twisted symbol are as given below:

The above three symbols are variants of the same idea, ‘Twisted bird’ (‘fear of’).

Variants of the twisted bird symbol

	This is another variant of the twisted bird symbol.
	Another variant is that it looks like a squirrel but is only a bird.
	Another variant
	Another variant
	Another variant
	This bird symbol may be different; it is unlikely to be the twisted bird symbol.