plz read my effortpost

@georgia ok i will

@georgia i like your effortpost a lot . i really appreciate the in-depth analysis of terms and especially their contexts within the larger tradition , something a lot of translations lack . but you're also very transparent about the personalness of your own interpretation , i think . i really enjoy reading all your posts about all this , they're very educated and thoughtful and it's one of the things i consistently come back to fedi for

@ikeWren damn thank you. i forgot to mention that in the brihadaranyaka upanishad, water is said to be "woven, warp and weft" on air. other upanishadic creation accounts have this formulation too, with water being created from air. i havent seen someone mention this but with that in mind, the element of water (apah) is indeed established by the wind.

@georgia weaving ..... i really like weaving metaphors for creation . i think theyre particularly meaningful to me as somebody raised in a very patriarchal religious background , since weaving is typically a feminine mode of creation . im curious how much this holds true for india , historically ? anyhow it makes sense to use given the generally multi-/agendered nature of divinity presented

@ikeWren while God is presented as genderless in the upanishads, the traditional hindu family is quite patriarchal. this is a big part of why femicide is such a problem in india. so while hinduism has shaktism and tantra which is arguably the most notable form of Goddess worship in the world, it is not immune from critique.