Ardor (76 page)

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Authors: Roberto Calasso

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digital mode of thought;
see also
substitution; substitutive thinking

d
ī
k
ṣā
(“consecration,” “initiation”);
see also
consecration

d
ī
k

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

kha
(“pain”)

Dumézil, Georges

Dumont, Louis

Dumont, Paul-Émile

Durkheim, David Émile

Earth, earth (P

thiv
ī
)

Eckhart, Meister

Eggeling, Julius

egoity (
aha

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

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

a, bh
ū
man
);
see also bh
ū
man
; excess;
p
ū
r

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


(ghee)

Gh

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

sa
)

Gospels

Gotama R
ā
h
ū
ga

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

(priest “who pours the oblation”)

hourglass

Hubert, Henri

human sacrifice

hunt, hunter

hut (
sadas
)

hymns 3;
see also Atharvaveda
;

gveda
;
S
ā
maveda
;
Yajurveda

I (
aham
)

Ibn ‘Arab
ī
, Mu

y
ī
al-D
ī
n

Ignatius of Loyola, Saint

Iliad
(Homer)

immortality

impermanence

impurity

indestructible (
ak

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

kalpa
);
see also sa

kalpa

internalization

intoxication;
see also soma

invisible;
see also
visible

invocations;
see also bh
ū
r
,
bhuvas
,
svar
;
sv
ā
h
ā
;
va

a

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

a

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