Hindu Arasah tree

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Hindu Arasah tree

Posted By: Naomi
Date: Sunday, 25 August 2002, at 8:07 p.m.

In Response To: Re: YHWH and his asherah (Charles Pope)

Hi Charles
That's very interesting about the temple at Karnak. I just returned from visiting a friend from India who is Hindu, and was told that they have a sacred tree called an Arasah tree. The women walk around it and pray to have a child, and for fertility in general! Since transposition of letters/sounds within words (metathesis) seems to occur frequently across most languages, and "s" and "sh" are variations of the same letter in tamil also, it doesn't take much imagination to see Asherah and Arasah as representing the same belief and practice as found in the Levant.
In their Hindu temple they have a wooden and bronze pillar that stands in front of the sanctuary. There is grain tied to it, and cloths around it, and it bears some resemblance to the djed pole. In the temple the Brahman priests perform rituals throughout the day, waking the deity, bathing and dressing the statue, presenting food and drink offerings (poured out as libations), and incense offerings for smelling as 'food' also. The main drink offering is milk, and the same rituals are performed over the sacred cow statue which faces the sanctuary of Shiva in this temple.
The Hindu religion has virtually the same rules concerning 'clean' versus 'unclean' as found in Leviticus, except the period of uncleanness folowing childbirth is less. Priests no longer shave their heads as they did previously, but shaving the head was for ritual purity along with constant bathing. There is a sacred lake associated with their temples in India. It is interesting also that Hindus do not regard it inappropriate to marry first cousins.
I'm finding the correspondences between ancient Egypt, Judaism and Hinduism very significant.
Naomi

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Naomi -- Thursday, 25 July 2002, at 9:12 p.m.
- YHWH and his asherah
  Naomi -- Tuesday, 30 July 2002, at 5:45 p.m.
  - Re: YHWH and his asherah
    Charles Pope -- Friday, 2 August 2002, at 7:48 a.m.
    - Hindu Arasah tree
      Naomi -- Sunday, 25 August 2002, at 8:07 p.m.
  - Re: YHWH and his asherah
    Alan W -- Monday, 18 November 2002, at 7:06 a.m.
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        Naomi -- Monday, 18 November 2002, at 5:31 p.m.
        
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        Charles Pope -- Monday, 18 November 2002, at 5:49 p.m.
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