Dear List

 

Maybe nobody noticed my mistake, or maybe many of you did, but you decided to forgive me.  In any case, the Vedic hierarchy of sacrificial victims is not:

 

5. sheep
4. goat
3. cattle
2. horse
1. human

 

It is instead:

 

5. goat
4. sheep
3. cattle
2. horse
1. human

 

I make this mistake all the time.  It is clear that in my urban world the value of the goat and the sheep is negligible.  But this is not true of the Vedic clans.

 

Best,

George