“In the footprint of Iḷā” : An EarIy Image of Sacrificial Cosmology in Vedic Tradition
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Abstract
The poets of the Ṛg-Veda speak of the “navel of the earth,” which is the “footprint of Iḷā.” It is among the oldest expressions available which describe a place of ritual offering to the gods. In this case, it is an impression in the ground thought to have been the footprint of a cow, into which was poured milk and butter. The word padá names the footprint in the Indo-Iranian expression “in the footprint of Iḷā.” Yet padá also means “word” and the etymologically related term pāda means a “stanza” of the sacred poetry sung by the ancient visionary poets as they sang their world into being. The footprints are thus also those of the cow Speech whose “supreme place” is parallel to the place of offering which is the footprint of Iḷā. This paper will track the footprints of Iḷā and those of the cow Speech in the Ṛg-Veda.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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