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Who Has Ever Seen Him? The Rig Veda's Own Unbelievers
Three verses into a hymn of praise, the Rig Veda stops and quotes somebody saying the god is not real. The line was memorised, syllable by syllable, for three thousand years by people who did not believe it. This is what happens next.
Ille Loquitur: Two Centuries of Getting the Rigveda Into European Languages
Europe's first Veda was a Jesuit forgery Voltaire owned. The English Rigveda most people read today was finished in 1896 by a translator who hid two verses in Latin, and it dominates the internet for one reason: the copyright expired.