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dhā- (“establish,” “place”)

dharma (“law,” “order”); see also law; world order

dhī (“thought,” “vision,” “contemplation”)

dhiṣṇya (fires)

dhūrv- (“to injure”)

dhyāna (“meditation”); see also meditation

digital mode of thought; see also substitution; substitutive thinking

dīkṣā (“consecration,” “initiation”); see also consecration

dīkṣita (“consecrated one”)

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Dionysus

Dioscuri

Diotima

Dīrghatamas, Māmateya Aucathya

discontinuity

discernment ( vijñāna )

discrete, continuum and

disputation; see also brahmodya ; dog, curled-up

divine, divinity; see also gods

dog, curled-up

Don Giovanni

doubt

dream

duality

duḥkha (“pain”)

Dumézil, Georges

Dumont, Louis

Dumont, Paul-Émile

Durkheim, David Émile

Earth, earth (Pṛthivī)

Eckhart, Meister

Eggeling, Julius

egoity ( ahaṃkāra ); see also I ( aham )

Egypt

eídōlon (“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; upaniṣad

Eros

eros , erotica; see also ejaculation; semen

error

escape

etiquette

Eucharist; see also Last Supper

Eumolpidae

Europe

Eurylochus

Evagrius Ponticus

evil ( pāpa, pāpman ); see also death; guilt

evolutionism

excess; see also surplus

exchange; see also sale; substitution

exclusion from sacrifice

existence, existent; see also sat

extinction ( nirvāṇa )

eye

faith; see also śraddhā

fasting

Faust

Feast of the Sacrifice

fences

filter ( pavitra )

fire(s); see also Agni; agnihotra; agnyādheya; āhavanīya; dhiṣṇya; gārhapatya

fire altar; see also agnicayana

first portion ( prāśitra )

Flaubert, Gustave

flood

Fludd, Robert

food and eating; see also anna

forest

formula ( mantra ); see also mantra; Yajurveda; yajus

Freud, Sigmund

fruits

full, fullness ( pūrṇa, bhūman ); see also bhūman ; excess; pūrṇa

fundamentalism

Fuseli, Henry (Johann Heinrich Füssli)

gambling

Gandharvas; see also Genies

Ganges

Gārgī Vācaknavī

gārhapatya (fire “of the head of the family”)

Gautama

gāyatrī (meter consisting of three lines of eight syllables); see also meters

Gāyatrī

Geldner, Karl Friedrich

Genesis

Genies (Gandharvas); see also Gandharvas

gestures; see also libation; ritual liturgy, ceremony; sacrifice

ghats

ghṛtá (ghee)

Ghṛtācī; see also Apsaras; Nymphs

gift

Girard, René

gnosis

goat

Gödel, Kurt Friedrich

gods

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

gold

goose, wild ( haṃsa )

Gospels

Gotama Rāhūgaṇa

government

grah - (“to grasp”)

graha ( soma libation)

Granet, Marcel

grass ( dharba, kuśa, muñja )

Grassmann, Hermann

Great Bear, the

Greece, Greeks

Grey, Sir George

Guénon, René

guilt

Hades

Hagia Triada

Hammoudi, Abdellah

Hammurabi

happiness ( sukha, ka )

Harappa

haṭṭa’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

homoíōsis (“assimilation”)

honey

horse ( aśva )

horse sacrifice ( aśvamedha )

hotṛ (priest “who pours the oblation”)

hourglass

Hubert, Henri

human sacrifice

hunt, hunter

hut ( sadas )

hymns 3; see also Atharvaveda; Ṛgveda; Sāmaveda; Yajurveda

I ( aham )

Ibn ‘Arabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn

Ignatius of Loyola, Saint

Iliad (Homer)

immortality

impermanence

impurity

indestructible ( akṣara )

indh- (“to kindle”)

Indha (“the Flaming One,” Indra’s secret name)

indistinct ( anirukta ); see also anirukta

Indra

Indradyumna Bhāllaveya

Indrāṇī

Indus civilization

initiation ( dīkṣā ); see also consecration

intellectual

intention ( saṃkalpa ); see also saṃkalpa

internalization

intoxication; see also soma

invisible; see also visible

invocations; see also bhūr, bhuvas, svar; svāhā; vaṣaṭ

irony

Isaac

Islam

Islamist suicide-killers; see also suicide

Israel

iṣṭakā (“bricks”); see also bricks

iṣṭi (“oblation”)

iva (“in a certain way,” “so to speak”)

Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa

Janaka

jang

Jāratkārava Ᾱrtabhāga

Jerome, Saint

Jerusalem

Jesus

Jews

John, Gospel of

joy ( sukha ); see also sukha

K. (in Kafkas’s The Trial and The Castle )

ka (“happiness”)

Ka (“Who?” name of Prajāpati); see also Prajāpati

Kadrū

Kafka, Franz

Kahola (or Kahoḍa) Kauṣītakeya

kāma (“desire”); see also desire

Kāma

Kaṅkati Brāhmaṇa

Kant, Immanuel

karīra ( Capparis aphylla )

karman (“action”); see also action; ritual

Kaṭha Āraṇyaka

Kathāsaritsāgara (Somadeva)

Kaṭha Upaniṣad

Kātyāyana Śrauta Sūtra

Kātyāyanī

kavi (“poet”); see also poetry; poets

Keith, Arthur Berriedale

kénōsis (“self-emptying”); see also self-emptying

Kerala

kha (“space”)

Kierkegaard, Søren

killing

killing of animals

kindling

Kircher, Athanasius

knowledge ( veda )

kola (“yoke”)

Kramrisch, Stella

Kṛśānu

Kṛṣṇa

kṣatriya (“warrior”); see also warrior

Kumbhayoni

Kuru

kuśa ( Poa cynosuroides )

Lampetia

language; see also speech; word

Last Supper

Latins

Lautréamont

law; see also dharma

Laws (Plato)

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

Lévi, Sylvain

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Leviticus

Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien

libation; see also agnihotra; graha