What are the best academic books on Vedic religion and its practices? I can’t afford the current $500 translation of the Rigveda. I’m also looking for books on Proto-Indo-European myth, religion, and magical practices.
>>25371802Just read René Guénon works
>>25371990Already have — it’s outdated scholarship and not what I’m asking for.
>>25371802Read John Paolucci.
>>25371802The Brereton and Jamison translation, if that's the one you mean, is on Anna's Archive.
>>25371802>I can’t afford the current $500 translation of the Rigveda.These un-Āryan feelings will win neither fame nor heaven
>>25371990Based Guenon poster>>25372022To be frank you will not be able to comprehend Hinduism without surmounting/suspending your materialism. But if, like a modern university professor, you choose to amass data in order to play with it like clay in your mind, so that you may form it in whichever way you please, then you can read any number of books, but it's unclear what your precise interest is, and it's unclear what knowledge you already have.
>>25371802just read joe campbell
Use annas archive for everything. >Indo-EuropeanCheck out the following scholars:Calvert WatkinsM.L. WestBenjamin W. FortsonEmile BenvenisteHans F.K. GuntherJaan PuhvelJarich OostenAnd these two philosophers:Georges DumezilAlain de Benoist>VedicIts relatively rare to get books only on the vedic period, its usually tied in with later hinduism due to lack of sources. Brereton and Jamison are good scholars for their own works beyond the Rigveda translation. Gavin Flood and Patrick Olivelle are also good. About the best thing you can do is get a history of indian philosophy to really understand the worldviews. Bartley is a good introduction, while Karl Potter has the best, most thorough work on it.
>>25372773You can be a non-materialist and still not be a credulous retard. Guenon and all the traditionalists simply made bullshit claims that are bad history and bad philosophy.
>>25373884For sure. You can also ignore what you consider bullshit claims (like pre-Colombian contact) without tossing aside brilliant intellectual insights into the fundamentals of things. Traditionalists were very much flirting with literal historical interpretations of primordial civilizations like Atlantis especially in the pre-WWII era, but the difficulty is caused by an allegory that approaches factual history rather than a factual history that fails as allegory. And in order to comprehend them I would argue one must be at least capable of temporarily imagining a non-materialist world. It's the people stuck in materialism who are inclined to reduce allegory to historical fact anyhow.
>>25373882>I learned about ancient Indian religion from people who are>American>English>American>French>German>Estonian >Dutch>French>French>that's how I know what the Indians think like
>>25374011If you want scholarship, consult Europeans, if you want rapey guru cults, consult Indians.
>>25374041how could the people who wrote those books possibly understand those books, right? i mean look at the state of their geographic origin three thousand years later. how can anyone take a rishi seriously when they eat gross street food and apply for H1-B visas to the United States on telecom shell company contracts and with fake degrees?
>>25373901>Traditionalists were very much flirting with literal historical interpretations of primordial civilizations like AtlantisAtlantis was a real civilization, as attested to by multiple ancient sources.>ATLA>TULA
>>25374343Yeah something like that. I don't think anyone really knows what it was or what happened to, except that it's gone now and that we'll go the same way.
>>25371802>I can’t afford the current $500 translation of the Rigveda.The 1896 translation is online for free: https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/index.htm
>>25375983You can also find epubs of it in the gutenberg project and globalgreyebooks, as well as convert the sacred text archive entry in a epub with WebToEpub converter if you want it portable for study.
>>25374011Yeah Aryans can understand Aryans. 'Indians' weren't a thing at this point in time, it was a dravidian slave caste.
