From: Dirk Howat
Message: 33959
Date: 2004-09-02
>lord of the
> David:
> >>At least in regards to the name *Yemos, Yama would be the Vedic
> >>counterpart. How is Yama's skull the sky, his brain the clouds,
> >>his eyes the sun and moon? Is Yama the cosmos?
> >
> >Someone better versed in Vedic studies should handle this. I
> >think that Lincoln is suggesting that the role of Yama as the
> >dead is relevant; he is the first to die.
>
> But of course he is the first to die -- He represents the first
> to die and the first victim of the first sin. I don't see how he
> necessarily needs to be the cosmos just because he may be the
> first to die.
>
>
> - gLeN
>
>
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