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	Celtic & Vedic Culture
		Danu in the Vedic myth is bondage and restraint and her son Vrtra is the constrictor.
		In the Vedic myth Danu is the mother of darkness, representative of the state of unmanifest being or She may be the mother of the forces of maya.
		In Puranic mythology the Goddess Ganga's fall to earth was broken by the matted locks of Shiva (known as Rudra in the Vedas), who then released her to fall on the earth.
	www.geocities.com /indianpaganism/celticvedic.html (4356 words)

	INDUS SCRIPT: Basics of Vedic Mythology
		The Vedic language forms a chain with the isolating, agglutinative and inflexional stages of the Indus language, as proved by the march of the clause ta na Sa of the isolating Indus to the vedic root tarS (to be thirsty).
		Many Vedic words being the names of deities or other beings,however, may be traced to the clause stage, as we have seen in case of ta'nas (child) from ta na Sa (from the womb gems come out).
		But the vedic words of the agglutinative origin or those compressed from the isolating stage may be representing the typical human beings of the society.
	www.indusscript.com /mythology.html (1142 words)

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		In vedic literature, straightness may be taken in the sense of removing one’s sins.
		The terminology used by vedic texts is generally concentrated on driving out demons from yagna/sacrificial place with the help of Ashtaka, so that the whole sacrificial place is under the control of gods.
		Vedic texts talk of 10 praanas or life forces and the eleventh is Aatman.
	members.lycos.co.uk /vedastudy/index.html (2456 words)

	Encyclopedia Mythica: Hindu mythology
		The history of Hindu mythology can be broken up into several different ages, all of which have contributed to the faith as a whole.
		The Vedic gods were led by Indra, the archetypical thunder god, and they got their strength from the drink Soma, a form of ambrosia.
		The major Vedic deities began to fall from their high positions and were slowly usurped by the cults of the three gods who came to dominate Hinduism: Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
	www.pantheon.org /areas/mythology/asia/hindu/hindu_mythology.html (739 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Hindu Mythology
		In Hindu mythology, Annapurna is a goddess of foodstuff.
		Avatar (Avatara) in Hindu mythology is an incarnation of a deity.
		In Hindu mythology, Parashurama was the sixth avatar of Vishnu.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/D7.HTM (1109 words)

	.:SAKSIVC: Vedic Literature: Rig Veda: Explaining the Gods: Vishnu, the all-pervading godhead:.
		These errors arise inevitably as part of the total misunderstanding of Vedic thought for which the old Brahmanic ritualism is responsible and to which European scholarship by the exaggeration of a minor and external element in the Vedic mythology has only given a new and yet more misleading form.
		The importance of the Vedic gods has not to be measured by the number of hymns devoted to them or by the extent to which they are invoked in the thoughts of the Rishis, but by the functions which they perform.
		In these aspects of the Vedic god are all the primitive materials necessary for the evolution of the Puranic Shiva-Rudra, the destroyer and healer, the auspicious and terrible, the Master of the force that acts in the worlds and the Yogin who enjoys the supreme liberty and peace.
	www.vedah.com /org/literature/rigVeda/etg/vishnu.asp (2143 words)

	VEDA STUDY - HERBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Common herbs of the world grow on the worldly earth, but the herbs of vedic literature grow on the earth of self or atman.
		From the adjectives given to herbs in vedic mantras, it appears that the herbs may be divided into five categories according to our five senses.
		Vedic and puranic literature has categorized herbs mainly into 2 parts – those which grow wild and those which are sown.
	vipin48.tripod.com /herbs (399 words)

	Indra - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Indra, in Vedic myth, god of the atmosphere, storms, rain, and battle.
		The elephant-headed Ganesha, son of Shiva and Parvati, produced from a fold in Parvati’s sari, is immensely popular all over India as the remover of...
		- Vedic god of battle and rain: in Vedic mythology, a powerful warrior god and the ruler of the sky and weather.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Indra.html (134 words)

	VEDA STUDY
		The driver of this engine is vedic seer or rishi who knows where, when and how the engine of consciousness has to be put in the state of low or high entropy and the steam has been given the name rasa.
		Vedic texts indicate that in spiritual path, loss of extra energy has to be minimized at any cost and sun rays or light from fire etc. are considered as loss of energy.
		In vedic word book, arm/baahu/gabhasti in singular form has been classified under synonyms for arm, while in plural forms, these may fall under synonyms for rays etc. This indicates that putting his arm inside the mouth of demon Keshee somehow signifies channelizing the radiating energy of the demon.
	vedastudy.tripod.com (958 words)

	Chapter 12 of Galactic Alignment: The Lost Knowledge of the Ancients
		In Vedic mythology, a fabled dawn time existed in the distant past, when human beings had direct contact with the divine intelligence emanating from Brahma—the seat of creative power and intelligence in the cosmos.
		Vedic scholar and teacher David Frawley assessed Yukteswar’s model and adds some clarity: “When the Sun is on the side of its orbit wherein its dark companion comes between it and the galactic center, the reception of that cosmic light appears to be greatly reduced.
		As a respected Vedacharya (Vedic teacher), he is one of the few Westerners recognized in India as an authentic teacher of the ancient Vedic wisdom.
	www.alignment2012.com /Chapter12.html (5433 words)

	A Vedic Reader (Excerpts)
		The Vedic metres, which are the foundation of the Classical Sanskrit metres except two, have a, quantitative rhythm in which short and long syllables alternate and, which is of a generally iambic type.
		In their structure the Vedic metres thus come half way between the metres of the Indo-Iranian period, in which, as the Avesta shows, the principle is the number of syllables only, and) those of Classical Sanskrit, in which (except the sloka) the quantity of every single syllable in the line is fixed.
		The conclusion from the Vedic evidence that Mitra was a solar deity, is corroborated by the Avesta and by Persian religion in general, where Mithra is undoubtedly a sun-god or a god of light specially connected with the sun.
	www.sacred-texts.com /hin/vedaread.htm (18972 words)

	Review of other attempts of Decipherment
		They forget that the Vedic language is inflexional throughout all its phases, whereas, the graphic form of the texts only support the existence of an isolating and agglutinative language underneath the same.
		The language of the Indus inscriptions is related with the vedic language not as its junior sister but as the grandmother.
		The language of the Indus inscriptions is the grandmother of the Vedic language-the one at the isolating stage and the other at the inflexional stage, the intermediary agglutinative stage, the mother, to be searched in the ruins of the Castle.
	www.indusscript.com /review.html (1310 words)

	IDS 3313
		Vedic sacrifices were conducted in any properly consecrated open place.
		Gods: Early Vedic gods are similar to the gods of the Greek pantheon, gods of natural forces appropriate to a nomadic warrior people.
		The cult of fire profoundly affects the religion and mythology of Iran (Zoroastrianism, which is still practiced by a minority population called the Parsis in India who emigrated from Iran after that country’s Islamization).
	www.usao.edu /~usao-ids3313/ids/html/vedism.html (1760 words)

	Orpheus: Myths of the World: Introduction: Indian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		There is, first of all, that of Aryan India which has connections with the mythologies of Persia, Greece, and Italy: because we know it through the Vedic Hymns (shaped between 1200 and 800 B.C.), we name it the Vedic mythology.
		Then comes a mythology which nominally arises out of the Vedas but which is quite different in idea and outlook: this is the Brāhmanical, the living mythology of India, revealed to us in the enormous epics which were shaped about the fourth century B.C., the Rāmāyana and the Mahābhārata.
		India, in respect to her mythology, is like a watershed: there systems which take us to look in opposite directions are close to each other.
	www.sacred-texts.com /etc/omw/omw12.htm (320 words)

	Vedanta
		The expressions “Vedic religion” and “Vedism” are sometimes used to refer to the religion of Vedic hymns; sometimes more broadly to the religion of the total corpus of the Veda, down to the Upanishads, and therefore include the Brahmanas, etc. It is convenient here to use broader sense.
		Further, Vedic mythology richly indicates the interplay of the invaders' beliefs and cultus with that of those they conquered, together with earlier strata of conflict.
		By consequence earlier Vedic hymns and Brahmanas, etc., were interpreted from standpoint of later synthesis, and thus to large extent traditional Hindu views of Veda differ from account given above and of modern scholarly investigations of evolution of Vedic polytheism.
	www.msu.edu /~puhek/miem/Vedanta.html (1551 words)

	Final Fantasy Database - FF Mythology Thread (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Titan (found in FFVII): In Greek mythology, the Titans are a race of godlike giants who were considered to be the personifications of the forces of nature.
		In Roman mythology, the Trojan prince Aeneas and Psyche were able to pacify it with honey cake.
		In Greek mythology, Iris is the personified goddess of the rainbow.
	www.ffdatabase.com /board/printthread.php?t=558 (4186 words)

	Date of the Rigveda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Rigveda no doubt abounds in mythology and an excessive reliance on this text to reconstruct the ancient roots of Indian civilization is likely to present a distorted historical picture.
		Sanskrit a_r(i)yah designates the speakers of Vedic; arya-, too, is possible; the word a_r(i)yah is the same as the Iranian word, except for the length of the vowel (vr.ddhi).
		They knew the high mountains in the north...Most hymns replete with mythology, but allusions to 'religious life' and the daily cult are much less in number...
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/contacts/rvdate.htm (2366 words)

	Greek Gods - The Sanskrit Connection
		Thus Uranus in Greek mythology is Varuna in the vedic literature.
		It is important to emphasize the fact that some of these names are not related to gods or heroes in Indian mythology itself, but merely names of just physical things, though Dyaus is the Vedic creator and sky god and father of Surya the sun god and Agni the god of fire.
		Vedic and Greek thought have a way of coinciding on unexpected levels, we must become a great deal more aware of the role of Indic thought in our interpretation of Greek ideas.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/4737/greek1.html (1358 words)

	Vedic Astrology - Lesson 7
		The Vedic concept of Time is based on the celestial phenomenon of the rotation of the earth round its own axis and its movement around the Sun.
		This is an allegorical depiction of an earlier theory in Astronomy that Venus was a satellite of Jupiter and was expelled from the orbit of Jupiter!
		Mythology is, in other words, nothing but the representation of Astronomical truths.
	www.astrology-x-files.com /vedic/vedicastro7.html (1410 words)

	Buber's Basque Page: On Basque Astronymy: The Sun in Mythology
		One poetic metaphor [+], in which the sun is like an open eye in the immensity of the sky, has given place to various myths, as much in India [+] as in other regions of antiquity.
		Sayce has said that mythology is based in a large part on the metaphors of language.
		In Vedic mythology the sun is the `eye of the gods', above all of Surya, Mitra, Varuna [+] and Agni.
	www.buber.net /Basque/Astro/node12.html (438 words)

	Amrtamanthana
		Vedic literature do not mention the cosmogonic act, which divided the soil from the water, stated a new order of things and created fabulous treasures.
		This change of symbolism was objectively due to the gradual obliteration of the soma cult in the later Vedic era.
		We first come across this legend in the opening book of The Mahabharata, whose mythology experts trace up to the oldest epic layer from about the mid-first millennium b.c.8 To all appearances, this date is a precise enough indication of the time when the myth emerged.
	www.ignca.nic.in /ps_05014.htm (3018 words)

	Indian Mythology - Hindu Mythology Articles, Facts @ Indian Divinity.com
		The hymns of the RIG VEDA are the first and freshest expression of the sense of beauty and gladness awakened in the Aryan race by the charms and the bounty of nature.
		The VEDIC Gods are mere abstractions, intangible and illusive personifications of the powers of nature.
		The heroes of the Vedic age gradually took place of the shadowy gods of the Vedic Gods and found their places in the Puranas.
	www.webonautics.com /mythology/index.html (263 words)

	Mythology Footnotes 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The sea route through the gulf and along the coast of the Indian Ocean had been used, in the early second millennium, by Mesopotamian merchants in their occasional traffic with the cities of India".
		It is noteworthy that the earliest appearance of the "Vedic" gods Indra, Mitra, Varuna and the Nasatya twins is found in a mid-fourteenth century B.C. treaty between Matiwaza of Mitanni and Suppiluliumas of Hatti from central Asia Minor.
		Now, if the language of the Aryan speakers of Mitanni was ancestral to the language of the conquerors of northwest India, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the Aryan speakers who went to India went by way of Mesopotamia".
	rbedrosian.com /mythft8.htm (624 words)

	Vedic Astrology : Astrologer Trivedi
		In the Hindu Mythology it is stated that DURING SAMUNDRA MANTHAN or Churning of the Ocean when nectar came out of the ocean and was being distributed by Lord Vishnu in the form of Mohini, Rahu realized that the Rakshashas will not get the nectar and it will get over before their turn comes.
		The accuracy of diagnosis as well as the quality / purity of the medicines play an important part in the efficacy of any healing – likewise, in gem therapy the accuracy of interpretation as well as quality / source of gem stones are important.
		Vedic astrology states that there are nine gems which are assigned to nine planets i.e.
	www.astrologertrivedi.com /7105/11804.html?sessionidkey=sessionidval (2875 words)

	vedic civilization india - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		Already in a Vedic hymn 38 though it...whatever either to South India or to Ceylon, which...for the history of later Vedic and early Sanskrit literature...to tribal migration in India than has yet been collected...
		...culture, the glorification of the swastika, her patronage of Vedic learning, and the ardent championship of Indo-Germanic civilization are welcomed by the religious and sensible Hindus of India with a jubilant hope." This racism and religious and...
		In Vedic mythology, Martanda, the...temples did not yet exist in India during the Vedic age.
	www.questia.com /search/vedic-civilization-india (1139 words)

	Buber's Basque Page: On Basque Astronymy: The Mother of the Sun
		In Vedic, dív, dyu `sky' was considered generally as the father, while the earth was the mother and Ushas (dawn) the daughter.
		Because the idea that the sky and the earth are parents of the universe was not only familiar to Vedic mythology, but also to those of Greece, China, and New Zealand.
		This idea was the product of the observation that man made that both the sky and the earth are encharged to provide to the alimentation of living beings: the sky in the form of rain and light which fertilizes the earth and the earth with the vegetation that leaves from her bosom.
	www.buber.net /Basque/Astro/node17.html (623 words)

	Rahu Ketu - The Shadow Planets: Komilla Sutton - Vedic Astrology
		In Vedic Astrology, the concept of the Soul's journey through different lifetimes is central to it.
		There was a great war between the gods and the demons for the control of the universe and at the centre of it was the ocean which was being churned to find the hidden treasures and the Amrita- the nectar of immortality.
		Their main concern was the correct interpretations of the vedic rituals and settling any controversies about the Vedic texts.
	www.komilla.com /pages/rahu-ketu.html (4794 words)

	EJVS - Michael Witzel - Looking for the Heavenly Casket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		However, the study of Vedic mythology and cosmology has seen advances, since the Twenties, especially though not exclusively in the extensive and seminal work on the Adityas carried out by Paul Thieme, N.W. Brown, F.B.J. Kuiper and their immediate predecessors such as H. Lueders.
		It is not surprising therefore that descriptions and interpretations of the phenomena of the night sky and its mythology were virtually absent until Kuiper's articles "The Three Strides of Visnu" and "The Heavenly Bucket" where (4) he pointed out that there also is another type of movement, of actual turning of the night sky.
		That the Vedic Indians as well as the Iranians actually paid a lot of attention to this fact is obvious from the following: The north pole as the single fixed point in the night sky is and was a favorite way to find one's way at night in open country as well as on sea.
	www1.shore.net /~india/ejvs/issue2/art1.html (2478 words)

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