"Rig-Veda" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the beyond all and everything," Max Muller says that in later times she "may have become identified with the sky, also with the earth, but originally she was far beyond the sky and the earth."(24) The same writer quotes the following, also from a hymn of the Rig-Veda: ...
— The God-Idea of the Ancients - or Sex in Religion • Eliza Burt Gamble
... the many early Chaldean hymns that were incorporated into a collection which M. Lenormant has aptly compared with the Rig-Veda of India. The concluding lines show that it originally belonged to the city of Erech (now Warka). The date of its composition must be exceedingly remote, and this increases the interest of the astronomical allusions contained in it. The original Accadian text is given, with an interlinear ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Literature • Anonymous |
