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The Bowstring Whispers: The Rigveda's Hymn to Its Own Weapons
The last hymn of Mandala 6 addresses no god at all. It talks to a bow, a quiver, a whip, a leather arm-guard and a handful of arrows, one object at a time, and ends by saying the only real armour is a sentence.
Pūṣan, Lord of the Paths: The Gruel-Eating God Who May Be Greek Pan's Cousin
Pūṣan is the Rigveda's god of roads, lost cattle, weddings and the road of the dead. A toothless herdsman who rides a goat-cart and eats porridge, he also sits at the centre of one of comparative mythology's oldest and most stubborn puzzles: is he a cousin of the Greek god Pan?