Gods of Love and Ecstasy: The Traditions of Shiva and by Alain Daniélou
By Alain Daniélou
Shiva and Dionysus are the Hindu and Greek gods of magical strength, intoxication, ecstatic sexuality, and transcendence who begin us into communion with the artistic forces of existence. Revealing the earliest assets of the traditions of Shiva and Dionysus, Alain Danielou reconstructs the material of our old dating with construction, vividly touching on practices that have been saw from the Indus Valley to the coasts of Portugal a minimum of six thousand years ago.
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Linga Purdna, chap. ) T h e modern conception of ecology may appear as an attempt to r e t u r n to a true ethic, even t h o u g h it may be anthropocentric. I t is not only a question of preserving nature for the service of m a n k i n d , but rather of rediscovering man's role i n nature, as a co-operator i n the w o r k of the gods. A religion w h i c h does not respect the indissoluble oneness of creation, and w h i c h is not fundamentally ecological, is n o t h i n g but a fraud. It serves as an excuse for h u m a n depradations, and cannot claim to have any divine o r i g i n .
P. Banerjee). T h e teachings it contains are attributed to the nonA r y a n sage Angirasa. , are also attributed to h i m . A m o n g s t the Brahamanas, the rituals attached to the Atharva Veda, the most i m p o r t a n t is the Gopatha Brdhamana (the way of the b u l l ) . " or sangham, are also pre-Aryan. T h e Atharva Veda is the part of the ancient religion w h i c h was adopted by the Aryans, and thus corresponds to the Mycenaean religion, that is, to what the Achaeans had assumed f r o m the M i n o a n religion.