Cosmography of the Kumbh Mela

The word 'kumbh', vase or recipient that holds the nectar of immortality, has survived in other Indo-European languages such as French, where a 'combe' is a high valley in which flows a river.

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The very name evokes one of the most ancient mythemes of the Indo-European, Arya civilisation, found also among other ethno-cultural families. It is about the salvific, eschatological role of the river flowing from the heavens above, irrigating the land and the subterranean realms before losing itself in the ocean that surrounds the world-island.

The word "kumbh", vase or recipient that holds the nectar of immortality has survived in other Indo-European languages such as French, where a "combe" is a high valley in which flows a river, while in Spanish "cumbre" has come to mean a summit. "Mela": gathering or coming together survives in the English medley and in the French "mélange" (mix) and "mélée" in a conflictual context.