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What the Rigveda Hides: Concealment, Speech and the Limits of Knowing
Across roughly eighty verses the Rigveda's poets use one root, guh, 'to cover over'. Gods hide in water and wood, three quarters of speech are held back, and the creation hymn says the beginning itself was covered. This is not decoration. It is a theory of knowledge.
The Riddle at the Heart of the Veda: Dirghatamas and the Cosmic Enigmas of RV 1.164
A blind seer composed the longest hymn in the oldest book of the Rigveda: 52 verses of numerical riddles, cosmological metaphors, and unanswerable questions. What happens when you read them carefully?