--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote:
> Yikes. In terms of Christian theology, you're quite right,
> of course. (That was my mistake, not Wikipedia's!)
> 
> But the "mappings" I've read have still identified devata
> with the Holy Spirit and chhandas with the Son, which
> makes more sense to me, the order being less important
> than the similarity of function, at least as I perceive
> it. You pays yer money and you takes yer choice, I
> guess.
> 
> That may be what Paligap meant by saying the mapping is a
> "bit tricky." 
> 
Yes! Rather like language itself, where words may convey quite different 
tonalities to different people, or even the same people, in different contexts 
at different times. None of it is carved in stone, as far as I can see, anyhow. 

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