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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "kishore patnaik"
<kishorepatnaik09@...> wrote:
> I think you have failed to see the references. There is nothing
> original.
I fully endorse Arnaud's comments on your Indological quotes (the
exchange is at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/60802
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/60804 ),
and find particularly uninformed the following quotes (page
references not provided) from George M. Williams' _Handbook of
Indian Mythology_ (ABC-CLIO 2003):
"Varuna was one of the oldest of the Vedic deities, Varuna may have
been part of the first triad of gods known in the Vedic period --
along with Mitra and Aryaman. A little later, but still within early
Vedic period, they were replaced by Agni, Indra and Surya."
"In the early Vedas, Varuna was the king of the earth and the sky,
and the creator. He was also associated with Mitra , the ruler of
night -- though in later Vedic hymns, we find him as the chief of
the Adityas, thus an asura, and contrasted to Mitra, a deva and the
ruler of the day."
"By the time of Puranas, he was reduced to the status of Neptune,
with Indra taking away his ruler ship of heaven and he was left with
the rulership only on the worlds of waters. Yet, he was still
presented as the father of Brahma, again, which role was taken over
by Vishnu in the later Puranas."
No Vedicist and/or Indologist would subscribe to such views. Maybe
Williams writes so because he isn't a Vedicist nor an Indologist. He
seems to be sort of a New Age professor -- see his bio data here:
http://w3.enternet.hu/sandor64/cffr/georgewilliams/vita.htm
Regards,
Francesco