"The same symbolism is used in the Maitrayana Upanishad,
where the relation between the world and God is equivalent to that between food and the eater of food.
God, once glorified as the world nourisher, is now seen as the world devourer,
for the world is God’s sacrificial food."
@holon42 What a horrid image.
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perhaps. depends on perspective.
it has also been envisaged as the Cosmic Christ, life involving sacrifice, a freely offered self sacrifice for the sake of all.
Odin on the world tree, to gain wisdom.
the old myths recognize that every life requires death to live.
and ultimately we are also sacrificed.
