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Indo-Europeans --- Brahman --- Sun --- Sun

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Philosophy, Indic. --- Brahman. --- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,

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Indo-European literature --- Folklore --- India --- Hindu mythology --- Brahman mythology --- Mythology, Hindu --- Vedic mythology --- Mythology

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"Using both textual and ethnographic sources, demonstrates that in Sankara's vedanta brahman is an active force as well as a transcendent ultimate"--Provided by publisher.

Brahman. --- Vedanta. --- Śaṅkarācārya. --- Upanishads --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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In the beginning, says the ancient Hindu text the Rg Veda, was man. And from man's sacrifice and dismemberment came the entire world, including the hierarchical ordering of human society. The Head Beneath the Altar is the first book to present a wide-ranging study of Hindu texts read through the lens of René Girard's mimetic theory of the sacrificial origin of religion and culture. For those interested in Girard and comparative religion, the book also performs a careful reading of Girard's work, drawing connections between his thought and the work of theorists like George

Violence --- Sacrifice --- Hindu mythology. --- Brahman mythology --- Mythology, Hindu --- Vedic mythology --- Mythology --- Sacrifice (Hinduism) --- Religious aspects --- Hinduism. --- Girard, Rene, --- Girard, René,