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What Tree Did They Cut the World From? The Rigveda's Life in Wood
A Rigvedic poet asks which tree the universe was carved out of, and asks it twice. The question turns out to be technical, not mystical: these were people who knew exactly which timber goes into an axle, and who spoke to their tools.
Eleven Names Before the Knife: The Āprī Hymns and the Fixed Grammar of Vedic Sacrifice
Ten short, formulaic Rigvedic hymns recited before every solemn animal sacrifice name the same eleven ritual entities in almost the same order, except for one deliberate swap that marks out priestly family lines. That single variable is the most interesting fact in the corpus.