[INDOLOGY] Altar of Fire / goats

[Eric Gurevitch]

This issue is discussed in a rather heated exchange:

Schechner, Richard. 1986. “Wrestling Against Time: The Performance Aspects
of Agni.” *The Journal of Asian Studies* 45 (2): 359–63.

Staal, Frits. 1987. “Professor Schechner’s Passion for Goats.” *The Journal
of Asian Studies* 46 (1): 105–8.

All the best,
Eric

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 5:34 PM Tracy Coleman via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Indologists,
>
> In the documentary film Altar of Fire, one of the priests discusses the
> deliberations surrounding the traditional goat sacrifices and reports that
> they decided not to sacrifice the goats in this Agnicayana.  What exactly
> do they substitute for the goats?
>
> Thank you for your help.
> Wishing everyone well,
>
> Tracy Coleman
> Colorado College
>
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Eric Gurevitch

PhD Candidate, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and

Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science

University of Chicago

gurevitch at uchicago.edu


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