Imagining sacrifice in ancient India: a genealogy of Heesterman's Broken World
According to Jan C. Heesterman (1925–2014), Vedic texts contain traces of the origins of sacrifice in an actual life-and-death competition between warriors for certain goods. This ecstatic struggle, which included joyous feasting as well as violent combat, was however domesticated by the priestly li...
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Routledge
2021
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Power, presence and space
Year: 2021, Pages: 19-38 |