[[horses]] [[vedic-animals]] --- 1. Praise 2. Sacrifice 3. Lament Hymn to the Horse - is the "soul..bird" in v6 ("your soul, the bird, flying below the sky") the horse's sun-form (like Doniger thinks) or is it his soul as a bird? - v10 "the racecourse of the sky" (afterlife) - v12 "The goat, his kin" (goats are kept with horses to calm them down; or a scapegoat) - v13 "May he go t othe gods today and...ask for the things that teh worshipper wishes for" (like a Cathoic Saint) -