Limbu

 

Limbu of eastern Nepal

deities & their holy communions

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ZS = Victor S o gen Hori : Zen Sand. U of HI Pr, Honolulu, 2003.

p. 18 goddess Na-ha n -ma

 

pp. 18-19 deities ritually emplaced [ny a sa in Skt.] on sites on one’s body (in Limbu scheme); or inhaerently located there (in Bodish scheme)

 

{any matching of shoulder on one side with armpit on other side may suggest the wearing of baldrick / bandelier}

p. 20 the flower-soul

 

{flower-souls are aequivalent to cakra-waterlilies in yoga}

p. 109 soul-journey

 

p. 391, n. 37 "the Pae ritual ([B. Pigne`de : Les Gurung ... du Ne’pal. Mouton, Paris & the Hague,] 1966 : 35) : ‘The pucu conducts the soul of the deceased to the land of Kro. The pucu indicates clearly each stage in his journey with the soul to the land of the ancestors; then, when the soul arrives, the pucu indicates the stages of the return journey, back to the deceased’s house.’ "

p. 110 Yetlamdoma as compass-dial (locations of altars to deities, in house)

 

p. 114 the 3 paths

 

p. 122 mythic castles

 

pp. 344-345 body-parts of bear

 

goddess Yu-ma [‘grandmother’ (p. 446)]

 

p. 347 colors of chickens offered to spirits of topographic features

 

p. 349 rite to restrict Ma n de [‘curse’ (p. 431)]

 

deities to whom offerings are sometimes made

 

pp. 371-374 various deities (described in mandhum ‘myth’)

 

pp. 375-379 goddess Tampu n ma (tampu n ‘forest’ – p. 373)

 

p. 380 methods of divination

 

pp. 381-385 temporary abduction of straying souls by Tampu n ma

 

p. 390, n. 36 Guru n (Pigne`de, 1966, p. 349) :- "A chicken is offered to the female spirit Sar o/ rhini in exchange for the soul she helps to locate".

Philippe Sagant (translated from the French by Nora B. Scott) : The Dozing Shaman. Delhi : Oxford U Pr, 1996.