scholarly journals A Nature Deity? The Ṛgvedic Savitṛ Revisited

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-174
Author(s):  
Dominik A. Haas
Keyword(s):  
Rainy Season ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Problematic Identity ◽  
Reliable Software

The problematic identity of the deity Savitṛ in early Vedic religion has sparked more than a century of discussion. Harry Falk, for instance, argued that this god, whose name literally means the ‘impeller’, can be identified with the Milky Way and associated with the rainy season. According to Falk, this association was also responsible for the employment of a verse addressing Savitṛ (a so-called sāvitrī) in the initiation of the Vedic student, whose studies originally began at the onset of the rainy season. The aims of this paper are (a) to review the various theories about Savitṛ’s manifestations in nature and (b) to explain how different natural phenomena and celestial luminaries could be associated with this god. In discussing the theories proposed so far, I not only consider the Vedic sources but also re-evaluate the archaeoastronomical arguments with reliable software. As it turns out, there is no conclusive evidence that Savitṛ was associated with any single phenomenon or luminary at all, nor can he be connected with the rainy season or water in general. Rather, he was an anthropomorphic deity essentially independent of the various natural phenomena and celestial luminaries he impelled.

scholarly journals Semarang City's Flood Risk: A Threat to Human Security

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 08027
Author(s):  
Susiatiningsih Hermini ◽  
Farabi Nadia ◽  
Paramasatya Satwika
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Rainy Season ◽  
Natural Hazard ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Flood Disaster ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
The Government ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Downstream Area

Flood is a natural hazard because it has the potential of natural disasters. Floods threaten human security, as in the socio-political, economic, and environmental aspects. Natural phenomena in the form of flood that routinely occur in Semarang City during the rainy season, can be considered a disaster if it affects humans and the environment. As a downstream area, Semarang City becomes an abundance of water from the rivers; resulting in flood in the rainy season. The condition is worsened with the characteristics of Semarang City, which makes rainfall in the upstream area to flow downstream rapidly. The community in Semarang City has not been freed from the threat of flood, especially those living in the lower regions. The unique characteristics of Semarang area which consists of highland and lowland and adjacent to the sea, makes Semarang prone to flood. When there is still fear of flood disaster threat around in Semarang, human security still have to be pursued. This study is conducted to find out the cause of high risk of flood disaster in Semarang City, especially from 2013 until 2015. This study also aims to explains how flood as a disaster could damage human security in Semarang City as well and therefore suggest how the government of Semarang City should treat the threat of flood wisely.

The sun and the Rösaring ceremonial road

2000 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67
Author(s):  
Emília Pásztor ◽  
Curt Roslund ◽  
Britt-Mari Näsström ◽  
Heather Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Milky Way ◽  
Landscape Archaeology ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Viking Age ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The South ◽  
The Road

A well-built roadway from the early Viking Age at the Rösaring archaeological site in central Sweden is assumed by archaeologists to have been used for processions. The road is here examined in relation to its environment, the sun and the moon, the Milky Way and the rainbow. The aim was to extend landscape archaeology to include natural phenomena and their impact on prehistoric monuments as an aid to conventional archaeology. The play of sunlight over the road at noon was found to be particularly spectacular at midwinter and well-suited for enhancing the performance of rites which could have taken place at a large mound at the south end of the road, possibly in connection with the cult of the Norse fertility god Freyr.

Continuum observations of the Milky Way

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 235 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Milky Way

Variation of the amount of hydrogen along the galactic ridge

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 171-172
Author(s):  
Th. Schmidt-Kaler
Keyword(s):  
Surface Brightness ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Neutral Hydrogen ◽  
Line Of Sight ◽  
Optical Surface ◽  
Hydrogen Density ◽  
Continuous Radiation ◽  
Galactic Longitude

The integralNHof neutral-hydrogen density along the line of sight is determined from the Kootwijk and Sydney surveys. The run ofNHwith galactic longitude agrees well with that of thermal continuous radiation and that of the optical surface brightness of the Milky Way.

Scanning Electron Microscopy of the Red Pulp of the Spleen

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 496-497
Author(s):  
Masayuki Miyoshi
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Ringer Solution ◽  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Sinus Wall ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Type 3 ◽  
Cytoplasmic Processes ◽  
Splenic Red Pulp ◽  
Scanning Electron ◽  
Red Pulp

In spite of various attempts, conclusive evidence to explain blood passage in the splenic red pulp does not seem to have been presented. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) observations on the rabbit spleen, originally performed by us, revealed that the sinus was lined by a perforated lattice composed of longitudinally extended rod cells and transverse cytoplasmic processes, and that perforations in the lattice were continuous to the spaces among the stellate reticulum cells of the cord. In the present study the observation was extended to the dog and rat spleens, in which the cord is more developed than in the rabbit in order to clarify the possible differences in the fine structure of the sinus wall. An attempt was also made to examine the development and distribution of macrophage in the blood passage of the red pulp.Spleens were washed and fixed by perfusion with Ringer solution and then with buffered glutaraldehyde. Small tissue cubes were dehydrated with acetone, dried in air and heated with gold. Observations were made by a JEOL SEM Type-3. One air dried tissue cube was cut into small pieces and post fixed with buffered OsO4 for examination under the transmission electron microscope (TEM).

Histochemical and Ultrastructural Studies of the Digestive Epithelium in a Gastropod Gametolytic Organ

1980 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 568-569
Author(s):  
R. L. Reeder ◽  
S. H. Rogers ◽  
W. A. Shannon
Keyword(s):  
Acid Phosphatase ◽  
Genital Tract ◽  
Reproductive Tract ◽  
Ultrastructural Level ◽  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Digestive Organ ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Ultrastructural Studies ◽  
Morphological Studies

Numerous morphological studies have dealt with the spermatheca of pulmonate gastropods. This globular organ, which is attached to the female portion of the reproductive tract by a long duct in these monoecious animals, has had various functions ascribed to it. Recent histochemical demonstrations of deoxyribonuclease, ribonuclease, protease, and acid phosphatase have provided, however, conclusive evidence that it is a digestive organ for the degradation of superfluous sperm and genital tract secretions. Only limited information concerning the spermatheca is available at the ultrastructural level, a fact providing the stimulus for the present study of this organ in Sonorella santaritana, a desert mountain snail from Arizona.

Astronomers spot first fast radio burst in the Milky Way

Nature ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 582 (7812) ◽  
pp. 322-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Witze
Keyword(s):  
Radio Burst ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Fast Radio Burst

Earth's new address: 'Solar System, Milky Way, Laniakea'

Nature ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Gibney
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Milky Way
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