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I surmise that the Yezidis came from India together w/ the Mitanni (Syria) & Kassites (Babylon), some 1800 BCE, who all assimilated into local populations. Underneath later theo-adoptions, the Yezidis worship the Peacock & the Rising Sun, & observe caste, Hindu-like.
Of course. The Portuguese applied it to the Jāti system they encountered in India because it was similar to the endogamy they knew between Jews, Xians & Ms in their Motherland. A caste is an endogamous group. Squeamish denial of caste convinces no one,.
Your article quotes Ambedkar as calling endogamy the essence of Caste; & he's not the only one. So you know it all better? OK, then tell us what Caste is instead.
Let me give you some honest feedback. Affirming that caste discrimination comes from the West is one of the things that cost Hindus their credibility. There's plenty of caste attested well before colonization. This denialism earns Hindu apologists a name for delusion & hypocrisy.
Hierarchy, social stratification, is indeed pretty universal. No need to be squeamish about it. The West as such faces its past of practising feudalism & slavery frankly. Xity a bit less frankly: it obscures or falsely denies its own assent to slavery. It must justify its past. Secular society can live w/ having changed, even be proud of it. Religions, by contrast, teach that past norms still apply. They can only embrace change (once it's proven unstoppable) by obscuring the once-embraced but recently-discarded past. So (?)
Hinduism likewise has a hard time accepting change vis-à-vis caste, viz. its rejection, because they see this as an amputation from their beloved religion, a vote of no-confidence against Hinduism. That is a problem your ancestors gifted you, as if a time-bomb, when they claimed caste is intrinsic to Hinduism. Lo, there is the importance of my identifying the problem of "invented tradition". Hinduism was doing fine without caste, but when this institution gained ground, ppl invented a Hindu tradition imposing caste, most explicitly the (very post-Vedic) Dharma Śāstras.
Where is that Ayurvedic recipe from 6000 BCE, older than the oldest script worldwide? Hindus cover their largely justified merits to ancient science in ridicule by obviously false claims like this one. Too attached to self-flattery.
https://x.com/ElstKoenraad/status/1962837331779461478?t=rnufFavOiHyUqFwxMg3Jlw&s=19
The parasocial relationship. It was once used for one-sided bonds with celebrities who didn’t know you existed. But with chatbots, the exchange feels two-way, even though only one side is alive. Which makes the intimacy not less parasocial, but more disorienting, like mistaking an echo in the mountains for someone answering back.
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/loneliness-ai-chatgpt-chatbots-10223685/lite/
America's main import is talent, and main export is the dollar. Said talent's innovation then supports said dollar's dominance which gets more said talent and so on. That is the flywheel effect here. The virtuous cycle.
This only works if the US remains the biggest, most open economic system on the planet. Scale is key here... Scale is absolutely key.
https://x.com/harshmadhusudan/status/1962588770135613891?t=YVjXyvBCVC_U-HXBkjg1LA&s=19
Specific to Vedas, there is Sri Aurobindo Kapali SHastry Institute of Vedic Culture (SAKSHI) in 'luru where using the Vedic beej sounds and the interpretations of Vedic symbols given by Sri Aurobindo, and Kapali Shastry, Prof. Kashyap has translated all of Vedas into English. Better and far far more consistent and often different translation than what one gets with Griffith and the western authors.
Kapali Shastry (one of the leading authorities on Vedas and Tantra in the 1900s) was the disciple of Kavyakanda Ganapati Muni, author of Uma Sahasram and arguably the greatest sanskrit kavi of the early 1900s.
I have got some of their books but haven't made any deep study yet.
https://x.com/Shiva_Uvacha/status/1962447250078261513?t=BRnnUSNL-Evky6PMGpIzcA&s=19
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