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The Guest Who Never Leaves: Hospitality and the Stranger in the Rig Veda
The Rig Veda has a word for guest. It uses it forty-four times, and in all but two of those the guest is not a person at all: it is the fire on the household hearth. Follow that oddity and a whole Bronze Age system for handling strangers comes into view.