"What would come of that, only the gods knew, and maybe not they either." (p. 364)
""Whence was it born, and whence came this creation?
"The gods were born after this world's creation:
"Then who can know from whence it has arisen?
"None knoweth whence creation has arisen:
"And whether he has or has not produced it:
"He who surveys it in the highest heaven,
"He only knows, or haply he may know not."
-"Hymn of Creation" (Rig Veda X. 129) IN Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Charles A. Moore (Eds.), A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy (Princeton University Press, 1973), pp. 23-24 AT pp. 23-24.
Recognition of gods but scepticism about their omniscience!
Next Targovi thinks:
"Javak the Fireplayer might once again take a hand in what would otherwise have been the working out of fate." (ibid.)
Targovi thinks that determinism is occasionally interrupted by chaos.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Then these Hindu gods were not gods at all.
I don't think we know how seriously Targovi took the gods of his Kursoviki ancestors. We know from ENSIGN FLANDRY that the paganism of that nation was even more inchoate and confused than the pagan religions of ancient Terra. We also know from EF that the Tigery mind sees to have been less interested in ultimate questions than the human.
Ad astra! Sean
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