On 11/2/2014 9:16 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote:
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Which came first: the deities or the concept of absolute and relative?
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/First, you have to realize that "deities" are mythological explanations
for diversity, while the theory of the one absolute was the original
united-field theory.
According to Professor Eliade, the history of religious ideas evolved
from the simple to the complicated. //First, there was the One, then it
became two and from there it became three and then thirty-three, etc. //
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//"How many gods are there Yajnavalkya?"//
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//"As many as are mentioned in the Hymn to All the Gods, namely, //
//three hundred and three, and three thousand and three."//
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//"Yes, but just how many gods are there, Yajnavalkya?"//
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//"Thirty-three."//
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//"Yes, but just how many gods are there, Yajnavalkya?"//
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//"Three."//
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//"Yes, but just how many gods are there, Yajnavalkya?"//
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//One and a half."//
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//"Yes, but just how many gods are there, Yajnavalkya?"//
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//"One."//
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//Source://
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//Brih. Up. iii, 9/
/Work cited://
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/*/History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the
Eleusinian Mysteries/*/
//by Mircea Eliade//
//University of Chicago Press/
