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The Rigveda's Word for Like Is Also Its Word for No
The Rigveda builds thousands of its images with a particle that also means 'not'. Nothing in the spelling, the accent or the grammar of the word separates the two. Only where it stands in the line tells you whether the poet is comparing or denying.
Fashioned Like a Chariot: How the Rigveda's Poets Built a Poem
The oldest poets in the Indo-European world did not think they were channeling the gods. They thought they were building. Their favorite word for making a hymn was takṣ, 'to carpenter', and it changes how you read every line.