the living beings

  • The Song of Joy dominates the Rigveda’s 6th Sukta

    Let’s continue our conversation about the Rigveda’s Sixth Sukta by reviewing the verse we ended on last time. That verse is Rv 1.6.5, rather than Rv 1.6.6, as per Max Muller, the 19th-century Oxford orientalist credited with restoring the Rigveda to its original metric form. In so doing, he divided Rv. 1.6.4 into two lines,…

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  • Unmasking the Fourth Cherubim

    I really should get back to the Rigveda — and I will, very soon — but I was too intrigued by yesterday’s discovery of the potential meaning of “Noah” to let it go. Hoping to find our fourth Cherubim, the one with a human head, I checked to see if there was an ancient God…

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  • The Book of Genesis Illuminated

    Today I’m going to reveal — probably for the first time ever — what the first chapter of Genesis actually says. So, prepare to have your eyes opened. Let’s begin at the very beginning, with the title word genesis. A word of Greek origin, genesis means “beginning” — the same definition, more or less, assigned…

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