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How to Make Friends With a God
The Rigveda's poets rarely call themselves servants of the gods. They call themselves friends, using a word that means alliance, obligation and risk. Sakhya runs through 226 hymns, and one poet even offers to sell Indra for ten cows.
The House the Rigveda Never Describes
A night charm in Mandala 7 shuts a household's eyes 'as we shut this house' and then says nothing about the house. Across 10,500 verses the Rigveda names beds, doors and dogs but almost never a wall, a roof or a brick. What that silence is actually evidence of.