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Indra — breaker of obstacles.
Slayer of the drought-serpent Vritra: the storm as liberation, invoked more often in the Rigveda than any other god.
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Agni — the fire that carries.
Priest of the gods and god of the priests: every offering poured into fire travels by Agni, so every rite begins with him.
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The shared center — held across the tradition
Ritual sustains the order of the world.
The fire altar kept rta — cosmic order — turning; sacrifice was cosmology in practice.
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The gods receive offerings and give in return.
Agni carries the oblation upward; the hymns name thirty-three gods and flatter them beautifully.
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Sound rightly spoken has power.
Mantra — the precisely chanted word — acts on reality; mispronunciation is not a typo but a failure of the rite.
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Cosmos & Afterlife
how reality is built, and what follows deathThe nature of reality
The world runs on rta — an order older than the gods
After death
The fathers' world, reached through right ritual