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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: Mend, chap. xxxviii.
[55] The production of fire by the drill is often called
churning, e. g. "He took the uvati [chark], and sat down and
churned it, and kindled a fire." Callaway, Zulu Nursery
Tales, I. 174.
[56] Kelly, Indo-European Folk-Lore, p. 39. Burnouf, Bhagavata
Purana, VIII. 6, 32.
[57] Baring-Gould, Curious Myths, p. 149.
[58] It is also the regenerating water of baptism, and the
"holy water " of the Roman Catholic.
The most interesting point in this Hindu myth is the name of
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