[Mod. note. Coming to your local theater soon, Trudy! - Steve. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime>] When will the anime version be available? Trudy Kawami ...
Looking at the photos of the slaughter, it struck me that the buffalo were rather small. Are these young, perhaps yearlings, that are slaughtered? Or are these...
It may be useful to read a local reflection on this mass slaughter, also referring to the yearly Dasain (Dasaratri, Dusserah) offerings in the Kathmandu...
More disturbing weekend fare. Witch-hunts are back. "Saudi courts are sanctioning a literal witch hunt by the religious police," Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle...
Per asked about artifacts of the prehistoric Jomon culture of Japan (below). As with most archaeological artifacts that are not accompanied by decipherable...
From my morning email. May the gods forgive not only Thanksgiving turkeys (see earlier posts by Francesco Brighenti and Dan Lusthaus) but also anyone as well...
Francesco, I agree some balance would be worthwhile. As a vegetarian for 40 years, it behooves me to point out that while many turkeys are served up on...
Dear List, Out of fairness and equity, let me state that the emphasis world media reports have laid upon the hecatomb of sacrificial animals being offered up...
Of interest, in the NY Times. Mata ***** http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01obpuff.html December 1, 2009 Observatory People Hear With Their Skin as...
Mata Kimasitayo
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Nov 27, 2009 11:39 pm
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... I believe that, among the three Nepalese towns that have served as the seats of the Kings of Nepal in different periods, viz., Kathmandu Gorkha and...
Call for papers of interest, passed on from the Agade List. The session entitled "Agent Based Social Simulation in Archaeology" fits part of what we're...
Yes, I second that - Thanks Francesco. I found your email useful as I am doing some work on Kali etc . Joanna, black face does remind one of Kali, but the...
Chitgopekars
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Nov 25, 2009 2:11 pm
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The Dashain (Durga) "festival" in Bhaktapur seems to even beat the Gadhimai fair in terms of cruelty ("pigs are skinned alive and their beating hearts offered...
Looking at her black face, one immediately thinks manifestation of Kali. The 7 sisters are also the Pleiades, and Kali is one of them in some renditions. ...
... Here is a phic of a cult image of this goddess: http://tinyurl.com/yfopcey The name of this female deity of the Terai region is also found spelt as Gadimai...
Dear List, The following (short 6 page) article will likely be of interest to list members: "Who Founded the Indo-Greek Era of 186/5 B.C.E.?" by Jens...
Nice layman's overview in the Science section of today's NY Times (by Natalie Angier) on oxytocin and social/cultural processing. Nothing new in the article,...
My family are vegetarian, I'm not quite, though I only eat free-range chooks, pigs, eggs, etc. and not much of that (not that supermarket labeling can be...
"Not only does the Gadhimai festival attract hundreds of thousands of worshippers, it is also big business. The meat, bones and hides of the animals are sold...
Anybody know who this goddess [Gadhimai] is? Never heard of her. But here is an emic discussion of what's going on -- emic in the sense of written by an Indian...
I see your point, and having tried and failed to be simply a vegetarian (not a vegan), I found it impossible, although I no longer eat meat every day. However,...
Dear List, Fitting the occasion, here is something else to digest from another corner of the world: "KATMANDU, Nepal - A Hindu festival in which hundreds of...
Dear List, This week is a slow one in the US due to our annual Harvest Festival, in which Americans slaughter 45 million turkeys yearly in honor of the ...
[Mod. Note: if link below is broken, try: http://tinyurl.com/ycqopg4 - please respond to rodo off-list - BF] Dear list members Does anyone have access to the...
This question reminds me of two sections in the Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun: Chapter VI, sections 34 and 35. The first discusses information overload while the...
I'm not sure that keeping archives, offhand, can be equated with information overload. Archives, libraries included, are generated gradually and get stored on...
This new Bryn Mawr review covers a book that has a 1960's feel to it ("Structuralism" in 2009?) -- but the neo-Dumezilians on the List might like it. (NB that...
Just to push things back a bit farther, what about the great Mesopotamian (& related regions) unending hoard of tablets with prices, receipts, king-lists,...
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