Thread by @mmpandit

How old is the worship of Divine Mother Shakti in India?
The archeological records point to 9000BCE ( 11,000 years old at least) and of course that’s the archeology which is known.
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This particular site at Sidhi in Madhya Pradesh is the (second) oldest site of worship in Asia.
It contains the famous Baghor stone which is a Yoni shaped triangular stone which is having ferruginous colour and represents a remarkable continuum of Shakti worship!

The religious significance of the site was definitively stated in the original work by Prof. J Desmond Clark of the University of Berkeley/ Dr Sharma.
The significance of the site would have not been realised had the archeologists not visited Kerai Ki Devi.

The question you must ask is why the downward facing concentric triangles having stone is being used for Shakti worship?
What is the significance of the colour Red and Yellow?
My surmise is that the site is a LATER site which replicates some older original site in the region.

The reason is that this site is associated with Hunter gatherers and hypothetically there must have been another older parent site of ancient people who were not hunter gatherers but growing rice etc…
Another hypothesis: that red is the colour of blood (menstrual) = creation.

That 9000BCE timeline for Shakti worship is conservative in my humble opinion ( I think I will be backed up by other learned researchers who look at the radiocarbon dating)
Another paper says it’s conservative.., I suspect by around 500-2000 years which will make it older still.