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Barbaric Cannibalism or Sacrifice of Man (purusha) in Rigveda

Lets extract some verses :

6 When Gods prepared the sacrifice with Purusa as their offering.
  Its oil was spring, the holy gift was autumn,summer was the wood.
7 They balmed as victim on the grass Purusa born in earliest time.
  With him the Deities and all Sadhyas and Rsis sacrificed.
8 From that great general sacrifice the dripping fat was gathered up.
11 When they divided Purusa how many portions did they make?
15 Seven fencing-sticks had he,thrice seven layers of fuel were prepared,
  When the Gods, offering sacrifice, bound, as their victim, Purusa.
16 Gods, sacrificing, sacrificed the victim these were the earliest holy ordinances.
  The Mighty Ones attained the height of heaven,
  there where the Sidhyas, Gods of old, are dwelling.

This tells about sacrifice of man on stakes by fire. see my text on Talk:Vedic religion.These verses describe that a man is being burnt in fire, its molten fat is gathered up & its meat is divided in portions. As per the earlier customs the meat of sacrifices was considered holy & was distributed as a sacrament(for eating). It proves that early hindus were barbaric cannibals who used to sacrifice humans to gods. Other(hidden) verses(about cosmic man) in this purusha-sukta are just hyperbolic imaginations to glorify the misdeed, because such creature does not exist.(Has anybody seen it?)Even if we imagine that it existed , then where would it stand? How big wooden stakes would be required ? From which trees such big stakes would come? How great amounts of seven layers of fuel would be arranged & where would it be spread about? If the purusha means God then why gods would kill him & why burn him on stakes? Hah who would kill his revered God? Is there any logic?

It was a tradition in olden times to write a skeletal idea(just like the above verses) then add some teaching & fantasy to create a dogma for mass consumption. --Anirudh777 09:25, 4 July 2006 (UTC)