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CHAPTER III
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1); "For the sake of the sacrifice are ye come down (to us)" (IV.56.

7).

In VI.

70 they are addressed in sacrificial metaphors; in VII.53.1 the poet says: "I invoke Heaven and Earth with sacrifices," etc.

The passivity of the two gods makes them yield in importance to their son, the active Savitar, who goes between the two parents.


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