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Hymns to Nouns: The Rigveda's Gods of Faith, Fury and the Fee
Late in the Rigveda, poets stop addressing rivers and storms and start addressing qualities. There are hymns to Fury, to Trust, and to the priest's honorarium. This is where Indian abstraction begins, and it happens in the vocative case.