village deities
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Hindu Integration: Brahmanas and Gramadevatas
The author argues the Rigvedic ‘one truth, many names’ pluralism is overstated, reads the Vasishtha hymns as integrating deities with different functions, and traces Brahmin integration of village deities such…
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The gods of place
Drawing on The Final Pagan Generation and The Souls of China, the author notes that local gods and shrines dominated pre-modern religion in Rome and China, and asks what this…
