Aryan Spring

Passages from the Rigveda, the Avestas, the Homeric poems, the Hávamál, and others

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

𝘝𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘩𝘳ú𝘥𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮á𝘭 45

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

Lif and Lifthrasir then shall hide themselves in hoard-Mímir's holt,
The morning dew for meat shall they have,
from them shall ages be born

Líf ok Lifþrasir, en þau leynask munu
í holti Hoddmímis;
morgindöggvar þau sér at mat hafa,
en þaðan af aldir alask.

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

ξεῖν᾽, οὔ μοι θέμις ἔστ᾽, οὐδ᾽ εἰ κακίων σέθεν ἔλθοι,
ξεῖνον ἀτιμῆσαι: πρὸς γὰρ Διός εἰσιν ἅπαντες
ξεῖνοί τε πτωχοί τε: δόσις δ᾽ ὀλίγη τε φίλη τε
γίγνεται ἡμετέρη

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

It would not be right for me, even if one worse than you were to come, to dishonor a stranger, for of Zeus are all beggars and wanderers, and our giving comes to be both small and dear.

ξ 56

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

To what land shall I turn? Where with my ritual go, deserted by Aryan kin? Not with the cruel tyrants, nor with the peasantry am I contented.
How then to propitiate thee, O Ahura Mazda?

Yasna XLVI

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

μέλλει μέν πού τις καὶ φίλτερον ἄλλον ὀλέσσαι ἠὲ κασίγνητον ὁμογάστριον ἠὲ καὶ υἱόν:
ἀλλ᾽ ἤτοι κλαύσας καὶ ὀδυράμενος μεθέηκε:
τλητὸν γὰρ Μοῖραι θυμὸν θέσαν ἀνθρώποισιν.

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

It may be that someone is fated to lose another more beloved, a brother of the womb or a son; but verily will he, having lamented and wept, find release; for the Moirai have set an enduring heart within men.

Ω.46

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

Meyjar orðum skyli manngi trúa
né því, er kveðr kona, því at á hverfanda hvéli
váru þeim hjörtu sköpuð, brigð í brjóst of lagið

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

A man shall trust not the oath of a maiden,
Nor the word a woman speaks;
For their hearts on a whirling wheel were fashioned,
And fickle their breasts were formed.

𝘏á𝘷𝘢𝘮á𝘭 84

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

prehi prehi pathibhiḥ pūrvyebhir yatrā naḥ pūrve pitaraḥ pareyuḥ | ubhā rājānā svadhayā madantā yamam paśyāsi varuṇaṃ ca devam

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

Go forth, go forth upon the ancient pathways whereon our sires of old have gone before us.
There shalt thou look on both the Kings enjoying their sacred food, God Varuṇa and Yama.

Rig Veda 10.14.7

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

For hateful to me as the gates of Hades is one who conceals one thing in his heart and speaks another. Therefore will I speak as seems most fitting to me.

Ι.312

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

Unto Drvaspa did righteous Zarathustra make offerings in the Aryan Vaeja, on the banks of the good Daitya, with the soma and milk, the baresman, with the ritual tongue, the mantra, word and deed, with praises and right-poured libations;

𝘎𝘰𝘴𝘩 𝘠𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘵 25

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

For thus with this was he tasked, and the gods were witnesses upon it. Fearing their wrath, he hastened with all swiftness to accomplish the great work, since it was the ordainment of Zeus upon him.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

Early shall he rise, he who would have another's life or goods;
seldom does the lying wolf get the thigh, nor the sleeping man victory.

Ár skal rísa, sá er annars vill
fé eða fjör hafa;
sjaldan liggjandi ulfr
lær of getr né sofandi maðr sigr.

𝘏á𝘷𝘢𝘮á𝘭 58

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

Yō tāyush, yō hazangha, yō gadhō yō ashavaja, yō yōtumāo, yō nasuspāo, yō sperezvāo, yō arāitivāo, yō ashemaoghō an-ashava, yō mashyō drvāo sāsta; tem avi tbaeshāo paityantu ithyejāo isha yō i dadha, ithyejāo yantu yō dī dadha.

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

Whoever is a thief, a robber, a murderer, a killer of righteous persons, whoever is addicted to sorcery, a burier of corpses, whoever is wicked, greedy, impious... may their evil desires lead them to destruction.

Ardvi Sura Nyāyesh (8)

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

O friends, for all our grieving, not yet shall we go down into the house of Hades, not before the day of our fate comes upon us.

ὦ φίλοι, οὐ γάρ πω καταδυσόμεθ’ ἀχνύμενοί περ εἰς Ἀίδαο δόμους, πρὶν μόρσιμον ἧμαρ ἐπέλθῃ

κ.174

[Aryan Spring @Aryan_Spring]

As a fair matron comes forth Eos unfolding splendor,
stirring the settlements, rousing the footed creatures and setting the birds to the wing.

ā ghā yoṣeva sūnary uṣā yāti prabhuñjatī
jarayantī vṛjanam padvad īyata ut pātayati pakṣiṇaḥ

Rigveda I.XLVIII.V