degeneration of the ages. Those who remain nourished by the water of Mímir's well—that is: the ancient, eternal and unchanging wisdom— those few will make a gift of their spirit to the successive ages.
A man's ability to distinguish between the cosmic truth and falsehood can be sharpened, but never wholly taught. For the one who possesses this, he still faces the danger of seduction by material circumstance- the thought that one's bearing should change along with the cycle of..
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.
@Snake_With_Feet I am still learning much about the Avestas, but it is my understanding that in the older strata Ahriman is not himself a willful entity, but only the name of "wrong thinking" or "wrong mind"
Moellendorff on the Greeks relation to the gods (the kressoines):
”They were harmful and beneficial to him, inaccesible to his dominion. Sunburn and winter frost, storm and flood, gentle rain and hailstorm passes over him, his cattle, his fields. Above, clouds and tempests raced
We see that the peasantry who worked the land, or other sorts of laborers, were not considered Arya, and neither were those who exploited their labor for easy living. Only the free pastoralist was considered noble.
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
@caldwell_e88048 That guy is a charlatan. "Anti" in the Greek does not necessarily mean "against", it means only "facing". You can be facing something in conflict, yes, but in classical Greek it is very rarely used to mean this.
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
Further support for the claim that Pindar could be called the "most Indo-European" of classical poets: in Olympian 2 there is reintroduced an Aryan conception of the afterlife, with its post-mortem judgement, contra the Homeric vision of Hades.