Egbert Richter-Ushanas
Egbert Richter (also publishing under the
pen name of
Richter-Ushanas, after '''', a Vedic
rishi) is a German freelance writer and lecturer, author of
self-published (''Egbert Richter Verlag'', registered in
Bremen) treatises on
Yoga,
Vedanta,
Esotericism and
mythology, translations of some
Upanishads, the
Bhagavad Gita and the
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali as well as original poetry.
In his 1992 decipherment claim of the Indus script, he argues that the script is "based very largely on intuition, and this quality is also required for reading it", likening the process of "decipherment" to
meditation, concluding that the
Rbhus, who Richter alleges were priests of the
Harappan civilization, invented the Indus script under the influence of
Sumerian cuneiform.
Werner (1999) confesses himself "at a loss how to evaluate" Richter's work, admitting the author has thorough knowledge of the various sources he uses, but at the same time completely lacks academic method, discipline or experience.
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