Authors: Roberto Calasso
Tags: #Literary Collections, #Essays, #Social Science, #Anthropology, #Cultural
digital mode of thought;
see also
substitution; substitutive thinking
d
ī
k
ṣā
(“consecration,” “initiation”);
see also
consecration
d
ī
k
ṣ
ita
(“consecrated one”)
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Dionysus
Dioscuri
Diotima
D
ī
rghatamas, M
ā
mateya Aucathya
discontinuity
discernment (
vijñ
ā
na
)
discrete, continuum and
disputation;
see also brahmodya
; dog, curled-up
divine, divinity;
see also
gods
dog, curled-up
Don Giovanni
doubt
dream
duality
du
ḥ
kha
(“pain”)
Dumézil, Georges
Dumont, Louis
Dumont, Paul-Émile
Durkheim, David Émile
Earth, earth (P
ṛ
thiv
ī
)
Eckhart, Meister
Eggeling, Julius
egoity (
aha
ṃ
k
ā
ra
);
see also
I (
aham
)
Egypt
eíd
ō
lon
(“simulacrum”);
see also
simulacrum
ejaculation;
see also
semen
Elea
elements;
see also
Earth; fire(s); water, waters
Eleusinian Mysteries
Elohim
embryo
Empedocles
empires
energy
enigma
Enlightenment
Epistle to the Hebrews
equivalences;
see also bandhu
; connections; correspondences; nexus;
sampad
;
upani
ṣ
ad
Eros
eros
, erotica;
see also
ejaculation; semen
error
escape
etiquette
Eucharist;
see also
Last Supper
Eumolpidae
Europe
Eurylochus
Evagrius Ponticus
evil (
p
ā
pa, p
ā
pman
);
see also
death; guilt
evolutionism
excess;
see also
surplus
exchange;
see also
sale; substitution
exclusion from sacrifice
existence, existent;
see also sat
extinction (
nirv
āṇ
a
)
eye
faith;
see also
ś
raddh
ā
fasting
Faust
Feast of the Sacrifice
fences
filter (
pavitra
)
fire(s);
see also
Agni;
agnihotra
;
agny
ā
dheya
;
ā
havan
ī
ya
;
dhi
ṣṇ
ya
;
g
ā
rhapatya
fire altar;
see also agnicayana
first portion (
pr
āś
itra
)
Flaubert, Gustave
flood
Fludd, Robert
food and eating;
see also anna
forest
formula (
mantra
);
see also mantra
;
Yajurveda
;
yajus
Freud, Sigmund
fruits
full, fullness (
p
ū
r
ṇ
a, bh
ū
man
);
see also bh
ū
man
; excess;
p
ū
r
ṇ
a
fundamentalism
Fuseli, Henry (Johann Heinrich Füssli)
gambling
Gandharvas;
see also
Genies
Ganges
G
ā
rg
ī
V
ā
caknav
ī
g
ā
rhapatya
(fire “of the head of the family”)
Gautama
g
ā
yatr
ī
(meter consisting of three lines of eight syllables);
see also
meters
G
ā
yatr
ī
Geldner, Karl Friedrich
Genesis
Genies (Gandharvas);
see also
Gandharvas
gestures;
see also
libation; ritual liturgy, ceremony; sacrifice
ghats
gh
ṛ
tá
(ghee)
Gh
ṛ
t
ā
c
ī
;
see also
Apsaras; Nymphs
gift
Girard, René
gnosis
goat
Gödel, Kurt Friedrich
gods
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
gold
goose, wild (
ha
ṃ
sa
)
Gospels
Gotama R
ā
h
ū
ga
ṇ
a
government
grah
- (“to grasp”)
graha
(
soma
libation)
Granet, Marcel
grass (
dharba
,
ku
ś
a
,
muñja
)
Grassmann, Hermann
Great Bear, the
Greece, Greeks
Grey, Sir George
Guénon, René
guilt
Hades
Hagia Triada
Hammoudi, Abdellah
Hammurabi
happiness (
sukha
,
ka
)
Harappa
ha
ṭṭ
a’t
(“error,” “sin,” sacrifice for an unintentional sin)
head
heart
Heesterman, Jan C.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
hei tiki
;
see also
Tiki
Helen
hemlock
Heraclitus
Herodotus
Hertz, Robert
Hesiod
Hilberg, Raul
Hitler, Adolf
Hoffmann, Karl
holocaust
Holy Carps;
see also
Apkallus
Homer
homoí
ō
sis
(“assimilation”)
honey
horse (
a
ś
va
)
horse sacrifice (
a
ś
vamedha
)
hot
ṛ
(priest “who pours the oblation”)
hourglass
Hubert, Henri
human sacrifice
hunt, hunter
hut (
sadas
)
hymns 3;
see also Atharvaveda
;
Ṛ
gveda
;
S
ā
maveda
;
Yajurveda
I (
aham
)
Ibn ‘Arab
ī
, Mu
ḥ
y
ī
al-D
ī
n
Ignatius of Loyola, Saint
Iliad
(Homer)
immortality
impermanence
impurity
indestructible (
ak
ṣ
ara
)
indh-
(“to kindle”)
Indha (“the Flaming One,” Indra’s secret name)
indistinct (
anirukta
);
see also anirukta
Indra
Indradyumna Bh
ā
llaveya
Indr
āṇī
Indus civilization
initiation (
d
ī
k
ṣā
);
see also
consecration
intellectual
intention (
sa
ṃ
kalpa
);
see also sa
ṃ
kalpa
internalization
intoxication;
see also soma
invisible;
see also
visible
invocations;
see also bh
ū
r
,
bhuvas
,
svar
;
sv
ā
h
ā
;
va
ṣ
a
ṭ
irony
Isaac
Islam
Islamist suicide-killers;
see also
suicide
Israel
i
ṣṭ
ak
ā
(“bricks”);
see also
bricks
i
ṣṭ
i
(“oblation”)
iva
(“in a certain way,” “so to speak”)
Jaimin
ī
ya Br
ā
hma
ṇ
a