HUMS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Lightning, Gayatri Mantra, Polytheism

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Hums 1000 - myth & symbol - lecture 15: hymns of the rig veda. In the myth, he consumes soma and then defeats the water dragon vritra (first- born of dragons) with a thunderbolt. Soma- a drug that induces severe hallucinations. Dasa- aryans named an indigenous group the dasa (slaves) after they conquered them. The world comes from the defeat of vritra. This releases the cows that were imprisoned and also the releases the waters. On the other hand, there is usually more of a primordial struggle involved. There is a cosmic level of the myth. Shining example of how myths have multiple levels of meaning and can be interpreted in different ways. In darkness it is hard to differentiate certain things. Rig veda 10. 90 the one body is dismembered, creating the universe. Sacrifice is moving one to the many, the oneness in unknowing, quite like water or darkness.

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