Sri Rudram: Le divin chant de la colère
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La traduction fran�aise de l'invocation � Rudra-Shiva, extraite du Veda.
La nature dans son ensemble, sauvage, dangereuse, mais aussi g�n�reuse, est repr�sent�e par des dieux bucoliques, moins �tincelants et plus ambivalents que les dieux �l�mentaires. En Inde v�dique, il s'agissait de Rudra, le col�rique dieu insoumis qui vit en marge des autres divinit�s.
Plut�t que Rudra, les V�diques v�n�raient plus g�n�ralement des divinit�s jupit�riennes comme Indra ou Varuna. Quant au principe destructeur et r�g�n�rateur, il �tait incarn� par Agni, le dieu du feu. Rudra n'est donc pas une divinit� majeure du panth�on v�dique, mais plut�t une divinit� dont le culte pr�datait l'arriv�e en Inde des premiers Aryens, et perdurera apr�s la fin du brahmanisme.
Ce ma�tre de la nature est en effet abondamment pr�sent dans l'iconographie de la civilisation de la vall�e de l'Indus, qui pr�date l'acculturation aryenne du sous-continent. On retrouve aussi sa trace en pays dravidien: depuis la plus haute Antiquit� et jusqu'� nos jours, Shiva, sa par�dre et leur fils Murugan y sont des divinit�s majeures.
Vers la fin du premier mill�naire avant notre �re, la civilisation de l'Indus, l'aryenne et la dravidienne, se m�lang�rent pour ne plus faire qu'une. D�s lors, Rudra cessa d'�tre une divinit� de second plan pour devenir Shiva-Sureshwar, le seigneur des seigneurs, le dieu des dieux.
Le v�disme des d�vas battu en br�che par des cultes plus populaires et plus accessibles, Shiva et sa famille devinrent les sujets d'innombrables l�gendes ( puranas ), et Rudra-Shiva rempla�a Indra au sommet du panth�on indien. Shiva prit alors le nom de Mahadeva, le plus grand des dieux .
Si les divinit�s �l�mentaires, les d�vas, sont des fils et des petits-fils de Brahma, ce n'est pas le cas de Rudra, qui ne conna�t ni la mort ni la naissance et dont la pr�sence pr�c�dait la cr�ation elle-m�me. Col�rique et violent, il est Rudra, mais calme et m�ditatif, il est Shiva, un mot qui signifie litt�ralement le doux en sanskrit.
Rudra ne se voit attribuer que trois hymnes dans le Rig-Veda (sur les 1028 qu'il contient), mais il est mentionn� avec plus de consistance dans le Yajur-Veda, qui lui consacre un tr�s long hymne sp�culatif: le Sri Rudram ( le divin chant de la col�re ). Ce chant m�taphysique est dot� d'une po�sie intense et violente. Compos� oralement vers l'an mille avant notre �re, il s'agit incontestablement d'un des plus grands chefs-d'oeuvre litt�raires de l'Antiquit�.
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