concept

Propitiation

Beliefs & concepts

Turning aside wrath or securing favor through offering as named doctrine. Not expiation as cleansing of guilt alone, and not atonement as the wider covering-word.

Vedic tradition

  • Propitiation appears in Vedic tradition.

    The Ṛgveda’s offering speech turns aside divine wrath and seeks favor through gifts of praise, soma, and fire. A named propitiation doctrine in that corpus, not expiation as guilt-cleansing alone and not the offerings practice shelf already walked.

    from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older

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sources

  • The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)

    Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.