Re: Swiftness of Indra

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From: Patrick Ryan
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 2:48 PM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Re: Swiftness of Indra


Arnaud, you obviously appreciate Dumézil as do I.

Something he never quite got, though, was that each one of the major gods
has two aspects: a beneficial and a harmful one.
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Well,
what to say,
Protestantic manicheism...
Worthless...
Immature....
Stupid....
Hard to say.
A.
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Indra, whatever the origin of his name, is beneficent.

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Killing cows, burning temples, raping virgins
is beneficent !?
I doubt it.
A.
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The maleficent aspect of the weather/sky is named Vrtra in Indic mythology,
and the winding snake symbolizes the whirlwind, storm-floods, and, somewhat
incongruously (for us), drought.
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Vrtra is not Second class.
You understood nothing in Dumezil.
Try again.
A.
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The first syllable must derive from *yAn-.
Patrick
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*must*
Why ?
Void assertion.
Undocumented.
As usual....
A.

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