The Indus River Valley Religion

 Religion in the Indus Valley is polytheistic and consists of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. There are so many seals that support the evidence of the gods of the Indus Valley. Some of the seals depict animals that resemble the two gods, Shiva and Rudra, and other seals depict a tree believed to be the tree of life in the Indus Valley.

The first excavations in the Indus River valley were stuck in the absence of obvious temples or other evidence of religion, and the three remained without examples of buildings that scholars generally agree had a religious function, although some suggestions of religious use have been made.

The belief system of the religion of the peoples of the Indus Valley has received considerable attention from many writers concerned with identifying the forerunners of the religious particles and deities of the much later Indian religions. However, due to the sparseness of the evidence open to verifiable interpretation and the fact that the Indus script remains undeciphered, the conclusions are partly speculation and many are largely based on hindsight from a much later Hindu perspective. Geoffery Samuel, writing in 2008, considers all attempts to make "positive 'findings'" about the Indus Valley religions as conjectural and extremely prone to personal bias, as scholars knew nothing about the Indus Valley religions.