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Jan E. M. Houben and Julieta Rotaru, "Vedic Myths and Rituals" (Dev Publishers, 2025)
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Professor Jan Houben reveals the ancient debate: are Vedic rituals reenactments of myths, or do myths simply justify rituals?
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A steady scholarly discussion of how Vedic ritual and myth are read together.
The episode treats Vedic myth and ritual as a single conversation rather than separate lanes, and that is where it has the most life. Jan Huben and Julieta Rotaru use the book to work through ritual, textual tradition, and the relation between practice and scholarship, while…
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