Yoga’s battle

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Last updated Jan 18 2021

© Patrick McCartney @yogascapesinjap Academia Linkedin

bodhapūrvam calema ;-)

These are notes available for whoever wishes to read them. I might use them in a future article. I’m curious about comparing the narratives of Yoga’s many folk origin stories and comparing this mythical corpus with one more aligned with historical sociology, linguistic archaeology and classical philology and genetics (both linguistic and biological).

#1 the “forest dweller” stage was not “early vedic”- not by quite a few centuries — it developed, or at least begins to be mentioned, thru the upanishadic (mid/late) periods YET it is too often the mid-late definition that is attributed to the “earliest mention of ‘yoga’ in the ṛgveda” thus obfuscating the earlier thoroughly martial meaning in order to present some sort of Gandhian ahimsa-like ideal of proto-yogis being vegetarian hippies or something similar — for eg notice…