Indian indigenours religion is actually the combination of cultures: the Indus Valley ancient peoples and other ancient peoples of the area, the Dravidians and the Indo-Aryans. The Indus Valley may have been settled over 8500 years ago. The primary gods first brought by the Aryans to the area were a male trinity of: Indra the sky god, Agni the fire god, and Surya the sun god. The Australoid Dravidians who may have inhabited the ancient Harappa and Mohenjo-daro centers of the Indus Valley go back to at least 2700 B.C. Other theorized peoples who may have inhabited the Indus Valley are speculated to be the Indo-Iranians, Sumerians and Ethiopian immigrants. At this early time a god similar to Shiva and associated with the phallic lingam is seen in the Indus Valley as well as a nature or mother goddess similar to Shakti.

To the left is a picture of a seal from the Mohenjo-daro region near the end of the Harrapan or Indus Valley high civilization. With characters that have not yet been deciphered, this seal also shows a man in a yoga position which appeared around 1500 B.C. The Yoga positioned ithyphallic man with an antler headdress, called Pashupati, is thought to be the forerunner of Shiva. Notice in the swapped image how similar is the image of Cernunnos from the Gundestrap Cauldron found in Celtic Denmark.