Pagan Religions(Vedic)

[johny smith]

The religion of the Vedic period (also known as Vedism or Vedic Brahmanism or, in a context of Indian antiquity, simply Brahmanism) is the historical predecessor of Hinduism. Its liturgy is reflected in the Mantra portion of the four Vedas, which are compiled in Sanskrit. The religious practices centered on a clergy administering rites that often involved sacrifices. This mode of worship is largely unchanged today within Hinduism; however, only a small fraction of conservative Shrautins continue the tradition of oral recitation of hymns learned solely through the oral tradition.

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https://worldofciv.svn.sourceforge....Assets/Modules/Rapture/Sounds/Vedic/Vedic.mp3

 

[johny smith]

Agni is a Hindu and Vedic deity. The word agni is Sanskrit for "fire", Agni has three forms: fire, lightning and the sun. Agni is one of the most important of the Vedic gods. He is the god of fire and the acceptor of sacrifices. The sacrifices made to Agni go to the deities because Agni is a messenger from and to the other gods. He is ever-young, because the fire is re-lit every day, yet he is also immortal.

 

[johny smith]

Indra is the god of War and Weather, also the King of the gods or Devas and Lord of Heaven or Svargaloka in Hinduism. Mentioned first as a god of war and warriors (Kshatriya) in the sacred Hindu text of Rig Veda, he subsequently became the chief deity. Indra is bestowed with a heroic and almost brash and amorous character. He has always remained significant in Indian mythology, from Vedic to Puranic times, even as his reputation and role diminished in later Hinduism with the rise of the Trimurti. However he is still active in the Pali canon, where he is addressed as Sakka . In Iran, Indra became a arch-demon in the Zoroastrian religion.

 

[johny smith]

Mithra is an important deity or divine concept (Yazata) in Zoroastrianism and later Iranian history and culture. Mithra is descended, together with the Vedic deity Mitra, from a common proto-Indo-Iranian entity *mitra "treaty, bond". As the protector of truth and the enemy of error, Mithra occupied an intermediate position in the Zoroastrian pantheon as the greatest of the yazatas, the beings created by Ahuramazda to aid in the destruction of evil and the administration of the world. He was thus a divinity of the realms of air and light, and, by transfer to the moral realm, the manifestation of truth and loyalty.

 

[johny smith]

Here is the folder of the Vedic religions.

http://wocrapture.svn.sourceforge.n.../Assets/Modules/Rapture/Vedic.tar.gz?view=tar