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voordat de zon was ondergegaan
was alles al voorbij
en nog steeds
herdenken mensen
over heel de wereld van alle rassen,
kleuren en leeftijden
deze dag
als symbool van de dood
van een kind van g d
terwijl er in feite niets veranderd is
op het eerste gezicht?
Assyrians,
Babylonians,
Chinese and all kinds of other
Descendents of
Egyptians,
Fertile
Gauls &
Hungry Heathen,
International
Jews and any other
Kind of
Lovers,
Men & women of any
Nation
On the
Prowl for food and
Quest for
Riches,
Satisfaction,
Trust,
Universal peace &
Vain
Wonders,
Xenophobic
Yahwists and
Zombies:
"Like wild winds
the draughts have raised me up!"
The draughts have borne me up,
as swift steeds a chariot!
Frenzy has come upon me,
as a cow to her dear calf!
As a carpenter bends the seat of a chariot,
I bend this frenzy round my heart!
Not even as a mote in my eye do the twelve tribes count with me!
The heavens above do not equal one half of me!
In my glory I have passed beyond the sky and the great earth!
I will pick up the earth,
and put it here or put it there!
Have I been drinking
soma?
Soma
was a divinity of special character.
Soma was originally a plant,
not certainly identified,
from which a potent drink was produced,
which was drunk only at sacrifices,
and which caused the most invigorating effects.
The Zoroastrians of Persia had a similar drink,
which they called
'haoma',
the same word as soma in its Iranian form,
the plant identified with
'haoma'
by the modern Parsis
is a bitter herb,
which has no specially inebriating qualities,
and which cannot have been the soma
of the Veda ...
The drink prepared from the plant
can scarcely have been alcoholic,
for it was made with great ceremony in the course of the sacrifice,
when the herb was pressed between stones,
mixed with milk,
strained,
and drunk on the same day.
Sugar and honey,
which produce fermentation,
were not usually mixed with it,
and the brief period between its brewing and consumption
cannot have been long enough for the generation of alcohol
in any appreciable quantity.
The effects of soma,
with vivid hallucinations,
and the sense of expanding to enormous proportions,
are rather like those attributed to such drugs as hashish.
Soma may well have been hemp,
which grows wild in many parts of India,
Central Asia and South Russia,
and from which modern Indians produce a narcotic drink
called
'BHANG'.
Like many ancient peoples,
the Indians connected the growth of plants with the moon,
with which
SOMA,
the king of plants,
was later identified.
SO
important
was the god Soma considered by the ancient editord of the Rig~Veda,
that they extracted all the hyms ib his honour and placed them in a separate book
{MANDALA},
the ninth of the ten
which constitute the whole.
Most of the gods were good~natured.
Guilt~offerings and thank~offerings, of the kind offered by the ancient Hebrews,
are alomost unheard of in the Veda.
Nevertheless the ceremony must have had its element of awa and wonder.
The worshippers, inebriated with soma,
saw wondrous visions of the gods;
they experienced strange sensations op power;
they could reach up and touch the heavens;
they became immortal;
they were gods themselves.
The priests, who alone knew the rituals whereby the gods were brought to the sacrifice,
were masters of a great mystery.
With these ideas,
which are explicitly stated in the hyms,
went others less obvious.
Often in the Rig~Veda we read of a mysterious entity called
"BRAHMAN";
in some contexts brahman is the magical power in the sacred utterance
{MANTRA},
but often it has a wider connotation,
and implies a sort of supernatural electricity,
known to students of primitive religion as
'MANA'.
The following translation describes Indra's fight with the cloud~dragon Vrtra.
The hymn evidently refers to a well~known legend,
which has sinse been forgotten,
but which was probably a variant of the creation myth of Mesopotamia,
in which the god Marduk slays the demon of chaos, Tiamat,
and creates the universe.
Let me proclaim
the valiant deeds of Indra,
the first he did, the wileder of the thunder,
when he slew the dragon and let loose the waters,
and pierced the bellies
of the mountains
~~~
He slew the dragon lying on the mountain,
for Tvastr made him a heavenly thunderbolt.
The waters suddenly, like bellowing cattle,
descended and flowed on,
down to the ocean
~~~
In his strength
he chose the soma ~
from three cups he drank the essence.
The Generous seized his thunderbolt,
and smote the first~born
of the dragons
~~~
When,
Indra,
you slew the first~born of dragons,
and frustrated the arts of the sorcerers,
creating sun and heaven and dawn,
you found no enemy
to withstand you
...

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