RELS 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Omen, Vaishya, Ashvamedha

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 131
• Professor: Aditi Sen- Chowdhury

Document Summary

Rels 131: week 1 lecture 2: january 8 2015. Vedas and vedic (historical period or era) Vedic: includes the vedas, the brahmanas, the aranakyas, and the upanishads. Vedas: the four vedas (the four texts) The rig veda: the songs/ hymns of praise. Vedas are written and composed in the medieval times and goes through priestly editing. Vedic language (vedic sanskrit language) is a dead language (classic sanskrit) dead language that. Human beings and all of nature (humans who are in contact with nature) 5: first martyr who dies and goes to heaven, becomes the guardian of the other world. Indra (king: king of the god, tawny coloured, loves to go to war, bring soma, loves meat, female consorts, weapon is the thunderbolt, classic man"s man, king of all important because. Prithvi (earth: married to sky god, children are the sun and the moon, goddess of speech and holy speech. Aditi (creation/universe: cosmic concept of creation, only creation hymn.