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Jun 13

The opening of the vrAtya-kANDa of the atharvaveda has elements that have continued to find expression through the history of the shaiva tradition. Here the prAjapatya& aindra flavors of the religion are incorporated within the early shaiva framework of the vrata. The primal

vrAtya is to be understood as rudra himself &when he manifests specifically as nIlalohita-rudra who in the paurANika tradition beheads the 5th head of prajApati. But again note the verb sam-Ir, which is used to indicate the primal vrAtya (rudra) animating prajApati. The same root

is behind a name of vAyu; also note its use in the taittirIya-shruti to describe a comparable activity of vAyu: वायुर् नक्षत्रम् अभ्येति निष्ट्याम् । तिग्मशृङ्गो वृषभो रोरुवाणः । *समीरयन् भुवना मातरिश्वा* । अप द्वेषाँसि नुदताम् अरातीः ॥
This again points to that old connection

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Jun 10

Throughout the IE world the iconography of the vajra (or cognate) is three-pronged: early on in the Anatolian world, then Greece, then India& Rome. We have held that this is an IE feature even though the RV calls it shataparvan among other things. But in the jaiminIya brAhmaNa it

is clearly mentioned as three-pronged. Thus, we have a vaidika author AruNi clearly recognize this form approximately coeval with Anatolian depictions suggesting that it was indeed an old IE conception of the weapon. A coin of Marcos Aurelios with Jupiter with 3-pronged weapon

This also brings to mind the famous AV (vulgate) incantation of the secret atharvan weapon, triShaMdhi, which can be interpreted as 3-pronged: e.g.,
अयोमुखाः सूचीमुखा अथो विकङ्कतीमुखाः ।
क्रव्यादो वातरंहस आ सजन्त्व् अमित्रान् वज्रेण त्रिषन्धिना ॥

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Jun 9

These Konkan petroglyphs should be receiving much more archaeological attention than they do. 1 puzzling feature is the presence of the "Master of the animals" motif. Multiple exemplars of this motif are seen across Egypt, West Asia and the Harappan India from ~6000-3500 YBP

The date of these Konkan sites is unknown. Several people have thrown around dates like 10-12000 YBP. However, none of these dates are in any way reliable. If true it would mean that the earliest example of the MoA motif is from these Konkan sites & may be it spread from there to

North Africa& West Asia. However, so far we see no conclusive evidence in support of those dates. On the other hand they are associated with the megalithic stone circles. In our youth we have seen such circles& nearby simpler petroglyphs. This might suggest that the petroglyphs

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Jun 8

The sprawling jaiminIya brAhmaNa of the sAmaveda has a section which we would call an upaniShat even though it is not widely taught as such in uttaramImAMsA traditions. After starting with a prAjApatya element it presents the following verse. The object of this verse is connected

units of time, the days, nights, forthnights, months, year & 12 days intercalary difference between 12 synodic moon cycles & the solar year. The 12 months are listed & finally the 2 intercalary months for the saMvatsara cycle. This then concludes with a statement to reconcile the

prAjApatya and aindra strands of the religion:
य एष तपत्य् एष इन्द्र एष प्रजापतिर् एष एवेदं सर्वम् इत्य् उपासितव्यम् ।
it is finally termed sarva. The connection with the realm measured by the thousand pillars, the units of time & terms sarva itself present this meditation as the

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Jun 6

The sautramaNI sUkta-s of the different yajurveda-s are interesting in that they homologize the ritual (beer-fermentation included) with the putting together of a new body for indra who was poisoned. That act is like a dissection in reverse &primarily conducted by the surgeons of

the deva-s, the ashvin-s and sarasvatI. It is notable that in one of these sUkta-s the ashvin-s are termed rudravartanI:
तद् अश्विना भिषजा रुद्रवर्तनी सरस्वती वयति पेशो अन्तरम् ।
अस्थि मज्जानं मासरैः करोतरेण दधतो गवां त्वचि ॥
This occurrence of rudravartanI is independent of all

its occurrences in the RV. sarasvatI puts together (literally weaves) the muscles within and the ashvin-s, the physicians, following on Rudra's track,
place the marrow [in] the bones [as the] the wort [from] the fermented grain with a sieve on the ox hide.
The use of this phrase

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Jun 5

Those who fail to account for the interests of conspiring elites (yes people will smear you as "conspiracy theorists"), religion (overt & covert), ethnicity and energy needs, but look at things purely in economic terms tend to get things wrong. Don't be fooled by the fact they

might be widely published& advertised in MSM. It is sometimes surprising to see rich left-liberals, who live in large houses with multiple motor vehicles, overlook the fact that as of today there is no comfortable modern life without the exothermic consumption of fossil fuels.

What to say of the uses of coal tar or petroleum derivatives. Hence, it is rather notable that the Occidental confederation has made several moves that have dropped the axe on its own foot while fighting the Rus in a thinly proxied war. In WW2, Germany lost because of lack of

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