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The Vedic priesthood is the collective term for the priests of the Vedic religion(similar to witch doctors of tribal africa). Known as purohita, the priests are divided into several types: Roman Catholic priests in traditional clerical clothing. ...
The religion of the Vedic civilization is the predecessor of classical Hinduism, usually included in the term. ...
- The Hotar is the chief priest, presiding the sacrifice. He is associated with the Rigveda.
- The Udgatar intones the hymns for the Hotar. He is associated with the Samaveda.
- The Adhvaryu carries out the actual sacrifice. He is associated with the Yajurveda. In mythology, he is presented as a newcomer, probably corresponding to a historical secondary development. The rising importance of the Adhvaryu probably coincided with the codification of the Yajurveda, linguistically corresponding to the samhita prose phase of Vedic Sanskrit of roughly 1000 BC.
- The Atharvan was a special kind of priest involved with Soma and fire rituals. The word is from Indo-Iranian *athar not attested in Sanskrit but ātar is Avestan for fire. Later, the Atharvaveda was associated with a legendary rishi called Atharvan.
The division of the Agnihotra among the Hotar, the Udgatar and the Adhvaryu is directly comparable to the Celtic priesthood as reported by Strabo, with the Druids as high priests, the Bards doing the chanting and the Vates performing the actual sacrifice. The Rigveda (Sanskrit: , a tatpurusha compound of praise, verse and knowledge) is a collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns counted among the four Hindu religious texts known as the Vedas. ...
The Samaveda (Sanskrit: सामवेद, sÄmaveda, a tatpurusha compound of ritual chant + knowledge ), is third in the usual order of enumeration of the four Vedas, the ancient core Hindu scriptures. ...
The Yajurveda (Sanskrit , a tatpurusha compound of sacrifice + veda knowledge) is one of the four Hindu Vedas. ...
Vedic Sanskrit is the language of the Vedas, the earliest sacred texts of India. ...
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Soma (Sanskrit), or Haoma (Avestan) (from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma-) was a ritual drink of importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the later Vedic and greater Persian cultures. ...
Indo-Iranian can refer to: The Indo-Iranian languages The prehistoric Indo-Iranian people, see Aryan This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The Atharvaveda (Sanskrit: अथरà¥à¤µà¤µà¥‡à¤¦, , a tatpurusha compound of , a type of priest, and meaning knowledge) is a sacred text of Hinduism, and one of the four Vedas, often called the fourth Veda. According to tradition, the Atharvaveda was mainly composed by two groups of rishis known as the Bhrigus and the...
In Hinduism, a Rishi () is a sage and/or seer who heard (cf. ...
The Agnihotra is a Hindu religious ritual, performed at dawn. ...
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the Greek georgapher Strabo, in a 16th‑century engraving. ...
In Celtic polytheism the word druid denotes the priestly class in ancient Celtic societies, which existed through much of Western Europe north of the Alps and in the British Isles. ...
A bard is a poet or singer, in religious or feudal contexts. ...
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The mode of vedic worship was performance of sacrifices and chanting of hymns (see Vedic chant). The priests helped the common man in performing rituals. People prayed for abundance of children, cattle and wealth. Vedas have mention of rituals for pleasing gods by lighting fire (yajna) and sacrifice(bali). It seems like african tribal worship & witchcraft. Modern science has concluded that Indian subcontinent was attached to africa in ancient times. Later on it drifted away and got attached to asian plate which created himalaya mountains due to a huge thrust and it is still moving north. In yajna the priests consumed intoxicants in large quantities, called soma and sacrifice of humans (Purushamedha) & animals(cow, horse etc.) was done. It is possible that various gods and godesses mentioned in vedas were as a result of hallucinations due to intoxicants. Soma was made from either cannabis or ephedra or both (cannabis is as common as grass in Himalayas). The Himalayan hindu sadhus (monks) are known to consume intoxicants even today. In Hinduism, Yajña यजà¥à¤ž (Sanskrit yajñá worship, prayer, praise; offering, oblation, sacrifice) is a Vedic ritual of sacrifice performed to please the Devas, or sometimes to the Supreme Spirit Brahman. ...
Soma (Sanskrit), or Haoma (Avestan) (from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma-) was a ritual drink of importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the later Vedic and greater Persian cultures. ...
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In Ancient Persia Atharvans were the highest, sacerdotal class similar to the Brahmanic caste. The Zoroastrian Avesta mentions three levels of Atharvans (Avestan āϑravaŋ). Parsis have corresponding levels in this tradition known as Dasturs (Pahlavi dastwar), Mobeds (Av. mōγu, magus), and then Ervads (Av. aeϑrapaiti). The Persian Empire was a series of historical empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau. ...
Zoroastrianism was adapted from an earlier, polytheistic faith by Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) in Persia very roughly around 1000 BC (although, in the absence of written records, some scholars estimates are as late as 600 BC). ...
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a person from Pars (the middle-Persian word for Fars), a region now within the geographical boundaries of Iran, and is roughly the original homeland of the Persian people. ...
The Pahlavi script was used broadly in the Sasanid Persian Empire to write down Middle Persian for secular, as well as religious purposes. ...
The Three Wise Men are given the names Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar in this Romanesque mosaic from the Basilica of St Apollinarius in Ravenna, Italy. ...
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The Namboothiris (Malayalam :നമàµà´ªàµ‚തിരി)are the Brahmins of Kerala. ...
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