Holi literature

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> Date sent:      Tue, 13 Feb 1996 23:32:56 GMT
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> From:           Gene Thursby <gthursby at religion.ufl.edu>
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> Subject:        Re: Holi discussion.

>     On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Allen Thrasher wrote:
> > Is the festival named from the goddess or the goddess from the festival?
> > Allen Thrasher
>     At the risk of turning this thread back along old lines that
> became a bit entangled, may I ask if anyone would care to recommend any
> interpretive writing on the Holi festival that has been published in the
> past?  I continue to find McKim Marriott's somewhat rash and now
> thirty-year-old essay "The Feast of Love," in Milton Singer, ed.,
> _Krishna: Myths, Rites, and Attitudes_ (Honolulu:  East-West Center Press,
> 1966) of interest and capable of provoking interest in the festival
> itself.  Gene Thursby <gthursby at religion.ufl.edu>
> 


See e.g.:

Johann Jakob Meyer:
Trilogie altindischer Maechte und Feste der Vegetation : ein Beitrag 
zur vergleichenden Religions- und Kulturgeschichte, Fest- und 
Volkskunde.
Zuerich ; Leipzig : Niehans, (1937). - 339 S.

(see especially part 1, pp. 137ff.)



There are numerous entries under Holi- in:

Barron Holland:
Popular Hinduism and Hindu mythology : an annotated bibliography.
Westport, Conn. [u.a.] : Greenwood Pr., 1979. - 394 S.
ISBN 0-313-21358-5



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