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Lakshmi

In Our Time: Religion

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The Milky Way

The milky way has always caught the imagination, especially since astronomy began quite early on in india. I think with many of these what we think of as myths and these narratives, they are very carefully composed a litera entities,. So they have multiple meanings, so they map on. Generally, there tends to be a mapping a thing on three levels. One, you have some kind of resonance with the actual observed natural world. The second level is when you have the shift to having certain kinds of metaphors. And then you have the associations with a divine beings, with human characteristics that can be told about them. It's amazing to see mor to read. Can theres plendid

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