Re: Vishnu PIE traits

From: Francesco Brighenti
Message: 48464
Date: 2007-05-08

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:


> I do not think Vishnu has any IE analogies.

I agree. Vishnu is a purely Brahmanical Hindu development of a figure
of Vedic solar god, just one out of 12 Adityas, whose most celebrated
feat in the Vedas is the 'three steps' by which he strode over the
entire universe (with this anticipating his later personality as
the 'Ruler of Space').

Regards,
Francesco

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