the earliest veda is rig veda It is is probably transmited orally for thousands of years before the Aryan tribes reached the turkestan region. It was written probably in an early Sanskrit called rigkrit Many of the rigkrit terms are early indo-Iranian dialects The fear for the natural and supernatural forces form the basis of rig veda The fearsome force was meant to be appeased There fore hymns were sung for the force or forces They were done with the ritual of fire and sacrificing goods into it It was called "dei-yus". It has similarity with greek zeus, or the latin "ju"-piter or the Iranian "dyaus". There was an initial polytheism that melted down to monotheism and later into a monism The rigvedic phase continued till Aryan settled in the Indus valley 4000 years ago
Hi, Please go through this article, it will generate lots of doubts regarding Aryans and Rigveda as well. More doubts will need more discussions and perhaps we may get some results at the end. http://www.hvk.org/articles/0302/200.html
Does the location of Mt. Meru have anything to do with it? Wouldn't the 'source' have been near it? But where is it, exactly? I have that it is among the Pamirs, Badakhshan, Tajikistan : Mt. Hara Berezaiti. kathie
mythical Meru - stories of it from Persia to Lemuria... How can one mountain be all over the place :-) or is geography messed up or there is no such mountain per say and its purely a vision?
The Parsis think they know where it is, and they're from near there. 'hypostatization' is what moves it all around. I took Diana Eck's explan. of that term to be pretty logical, on how distant Tirthams are given expanded life : e.g. all 12 Jothilings represented at Kasi. kathie
Is the Milk not referred to as Knowledge ? How is it deemed as Dyana ? Immortality is born out of engulfing the true Knowledge. The nectar being the bliss... the thatva being that. Meru has been meta physically connected to 'Ego', where the ego is blasted while searching for true Knowledge. Physically, while doing the dyana, kundalini (referred to as Vasuki) is used to bring the bliss... source of pure white ocean of milk.
I was asking about the actual mountain, not its symbolism. Aren't Olympus & Ararat real places? I believe Meru is, also. Sacred in the 'Avesta' also, I've read. It's the Axis Mundi, near region perhaps the origin of Indo-European languages? Just a query? kathie