Re: [cybalist] The Rig-Veda: What it entails.

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From: Piotr Gasiorowski

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Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 8:18 AM

Subject: Re: [cybalist] The Rig-Veda: What it entails.

Thank you, Piotr. I have recently and in times past looked for a serious online site, one that treats the Rig-Veda as myth and literature, much as one can treat the bible as myth and literature. I am serious about wanting to tackle it. I suspect there are others here reading this who have similar thoughts. But from what I've discovered, if one is to do this seriously, and with full use of your critical faculties, it's not something you can do completely alone. It's rather like someone who has never ever looked at a Shakespeare play attempting to tackle it without at least a critical text, of the sort every last one of us in the English-speaking world use.

 

What I want, I think, is a Robert Graves equilvalent for Indic mythology.

 

I appreciate Mark DiFillo's posting. It sounds like he's interested too. I want to confirm for myself the usual critical platitudes that the RV is one of the world's great works of literature. The online book stores, however, offer an unappetizing selection; most of the academic stuff looks like someone's recycled Ph.D. thesis. It also seems there is no complete modern translation; if this is true, it's a dreadful lapse.

 

 

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From: Mark DeFillo

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Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 2:44 PM

Subject: Re: [cybalist] The Rig-Veda: What it entails.

 

Sorry, Mark, but I have to say this: the Vedic Studies site contains typical New Agey stuff with of no scientific value whatsoever. It doesn't offer information but a series of sermons plus insinuation to the effect that whoever opposes their views does so for political reasons. I've seen more of that before and am no longer amused. It's just MHO, but I certainly wouldn't recommend the site to anybody.

 

Piotr

 

 

Mark Odegard wrote on March 24, 2000 ce that he would find it helpful to
have some guidance on Vedic mythology as an introduction to reading the
Rg-veda Samhita.

An excellent resource from within the tradition might be the American
Institute for Vedic Studies website: http://www.vedanet.com

This site includes links to many other sites relating to many aspects of
Hinduism and Vedic culture. The site also includes information specifically
relating to the truth or falsity of the theory of the Aryan Invasion of
India; does anybody care to take an open-minded AND critical look at the
arguments there presented for the group?. In any case, Mark and any others
interested in the Vedas would likely find a lot of useful material either at
this site, or through some of its many links with other sites.

At your service,
Mark DeFillo/Druuis Belenios Ategnatos,