This post contains photographs of sculptures, bas-reliefs and wall paintings of horsemen from Indian and Indo-Chinese temples. At first glance, nothing special. But look closely at the "horses."
You will not find among them a single ordinary horse that our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers rode. These are either some half-birds - half-dragons, similar to basilisks, or dragons - horses, or half-elephants-half-dragons (half-lion), or half-birds-half-lion or griffins, or something like an ordinary horse, only with a horn, similar to the creatures depicted on the gates of the goddess Ishtar in Babylon and even unicorns.
Based on this, the following conclusions can be drawn:
1) In Indian and Indo-Chinese temples scenes from the distant past are shown, separated from our time, probably, not even by hundreds of thousands; but in millions and tens of millions of years. The animals depicted on them (and on the previous page) can be compared with aminodonts, hyracodonts, meritheria, early mastodons and other animals that lived on Earth in the Eocene, Oligocene and Neogene period (40-16, probably 5.3 million BC). years ago), and animals such as the stegosaurus are considered extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period (66 million years ago);
2) A large number of images of horsemen (Daityas, Danavas, Skanda and others) on half-half-dragon birds, similar to basilisks, may indicate that the distant ancestors of people kept basilisks as pets. It is even difficult to imagine what a formidable force they represented then (according to legends, basilisks with their gaze turned people and other living creatures to stone, or at least paralyzed them);
3) The motive of horsemen, ubiquitous in Indian and Indo-Chinese sculpture, which included peoples and heroes who used aircraft in battle, nuclear, seismic, magical and other weapons, almost definitely indicates that the society of that time was strikingly different from ours, and that inhabited then peoples tried to live on the Earth in harmony with nature and not to develop industry.
That is, on the one hand, the stegosaurus depicted on the walls of the Angkor Wat temple could be a real, and not mythical, inhabitant of that time. And live together with other animals shown here, as well as daityas, danavas, adityas and representatives of the old and already emerging new humanity, whose roots stretch back to that time.
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On the other hand, the antediluvian world was very similar to the world shown in the films Dinotopia and Avatar. It remained so even when the peoples inhabiting it waged wars with each other using more powerful weapons than in our time. Because they knew well that technogenic civilization is a dead-end path for human development.
Daityas (asuras) on half-dragon-like birds, similar to a basilisk. Daityas are a race of giants.
Riders on the so-called "Chinese lion" - a species of dragon (left) and a creature between a horse, goat, unicorn and dragon (right). Country royal residence Bang-pa-in-pales, Thailand.
Riders on a dragon-horse covered with horn plates (left) and a creature between an elephant and a horse, probably a meritorium or mastodon (right). Bang-pa-in-pales country royal residence, Thailand
The son of Shiva Skand on a half-dragon, similar to a basilisk. Halebid, India
Rider on a half-bird-half-lion (griffin?). Ta Prohm, Angkor, Cambodia.
Rakshasa or yaksha on a dragon. Modern bas-relief on the wall of Wat Tra Mit, Thailand.
Rider on a half-half-dragon, reminiscent of a basilisk. Ta Prohm, Angkor, Cambodia
The leader of the Rakshasas Ravana in a chariot drawn by dragons. Royal Palace, Bangkok.
The naga rider on a half-elephant-half-dragon (or, as some believe, a lion) gayasimha. Prasat Prei Kmeng, Angkor, Cambodia
Riders on the dragon and half-horse-half-goat. Modern bas-relief on the wall of Wat Tra Mit, Thailand.
It is difficult to ignore the images of strange animals on the wall of a Cambodian temple. This image of an animal on a bas-relief of the Ta Prohm temple of the Angkor temple complex (Cambodia), surprisingly similar to the stegosaurus, which became extinct at the end of the Mesozoic era, 66 million years ago.
An animal on the bas-relief of the Ta Prohm temple of the Angkor temple complex (Cambodia), located above the "stegosaurus", reminiscent of the hyracodonts that lived in the Eocene and Oligocene (previously 24-20 million years ago).
An animal on the bas-relief of the Ta Prohm temple of the Angkor temple complex (Cambodia), located above the "stegosaurus", reminiscent of the Aminodonts and some Indricotherians that lived in the Eocene and Oligocene.