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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The earliest Tibetan myths tell how the rule passed between a succesion of non humans, with the residents of heaven and underworld labyrinths jostling for their piece of the pie. These entities were to be thanked for their kindness with ritual offerings and caution excercised so as not to offend them.

Shamen were the connection between these gods and the land of the living as only they, in a trance like state, could travel between realms and discover how much and what was to be sacrificed to get the supernaturals on side.

Bearing in mind the location it's little suprise that early Tibetan Bon centred around mountain gods. Living on or around such dangerous peaks you need all the help you can get and in exchange for protection from peril the resident protective deities were given endless supplies of goat type offerings and insanely long names containing the entire alphabet of randomly picked consonants with the odd vowel slipped in just to give the throat a rest.

The first human rulers were the seven Tibetan kings who descended from the sky on ropes. The son of the last of these was called Grigum and after a shamen prophecy fortold he would die by the sword he challenged his entire court to a duel.

Being more than a little superstitious he surrounded himself with yaks carrying bags of soot, wore an enormous padded turban, a mirror on his forehead and wrapped himself in fox pelts in the hope of avoiding injury. Unfortunately the yaks horns split the soot bags, the air filled with a black cloud and as he blindly waved his sword like a maniac completely missing every combatant, he severed the rope which tied him to heaven.

Deserted by his protector god, the stable boy aimed his arrow at the only thing visible in the black cloud - the mirror shining like a beacon on the kings noggin - and so began the cult of royal tombs in the Yar Lung valley.

The introduction of Buddhism in the 8th century saw the end of Shamanism, but not before they'd mastered the art of the tantric state - so you've got them to thank for three day orgasms.

This section is still under pretty serious construction as i try to make sense of it all — any cunning-linguist willing to shed some light on the slightly baffling god-name thing will be worshipped personally. Cheers.

Further reading : Tibetan Folk Tales (.com) / (co.uk)
Occult Tibet: Secret Practices of Himalayan Magic (.com) / (co.uk)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (.com) / (co.uk)

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Tibetan database entry : 24 December 2008
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