Max, Thatıs fascinating do you have any references on Jvalamukhi, or other Himalayan sanctuaries? Bob -- Robert Simpkins Department of Anthropology San...
[Mod. note. For sure, Nilima - or better updating plus back-projecting into older stories for legitimizing purposes. But it isn't just Hindu myth, but myth in...
Pertinent to ongoing discussions of mythology, here are links to PDFs of two reviews of books on myth in this week's issue of the _Review of Biblical...
X-posted from H-Asia Of potential interest to some list members. Joanna ... Wednesday, June 7th 9:00-12:00 Excursion to the Old City Session 3: Into the...
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Jun 1, 2006 6:50 pm
My old friend, Urs App, is giving a lecture on this subject in Kyoto next Friday (the 9th). Highly recommended, if any of you are interested in this topic...
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Jun 1, 2006 6:57 pm
... This is the sort of information that fills the pages of the Barbers' book on myth: naturalistic explanations of myth and legend. Paul Barber applied the...
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:F8YwJm8F-BkJ:sai.aros.net/aurobindo/bhavani.php+Jvalamukhi+pilgrimage&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2 Site includes an English...
... [Please note that Webpage Joanna has referred us to only apparently exists at present as cached Google text, which means it will probably disappear in the...
... Not really, except for scattered mentions in N.N. Bhattacharya, such as his 1977 The Indian Mother Goddess, and possibly in History of the Shakta Religion....
A few questions or leads to raise before I have to run for the Metro (I don't have time to think about the answers and am afraid of forgetting the ideas). 1....
[Joanna: URL to the preprint = <http://tinyurl.com/obzur>. But see too the criticism in _Curr Anthro Aug-Oct 2005, since the Piraha had a complex spirit world,...
I wrote " In John Gardner's wonderful film on Varanasi,......." He is Robert Gardner. The film title is _Forest of Bliss_. Sorry for the error-----Joanna ... ...
This is re Joanna's allusion to the late Alan Coult in her recent post. I recall another interesting bon mot of his, in "The Light at the Center", which is a ...
Dear List, Over the past 48 hours we've had recurrent problems with access to Yahoo, and we know from off-List messages that some posts aren't making it to the...
... I should perhaps warn the list that I may be partly inaccessible Sunday evening and Monday due to a short voyage to Denmark. My portable communication...
Here's another Alan Coult bon mot that is now enshrined in a zillion websites, but unknown to me where it first surfaced; perhaps it's in his last book (see...
Dear List, While this post from early this morning made it to the Web version of the List, a number of people have said they never received it via email. Hence...
[Mod. note. No fleeing Indian gods from sacred places/cities anywhere in S. Asian mythology, Nilima? - Steve.] No fleeing of deities from these Indian cities!...
City goddesses of Graeco-Roman type (identifiable by their battlemented crowns and the attributes of their cities) seem to have had an active after-life in...
... anywhere in S. Asian mythology, Nilima? - Steve.] Check out Diana Eck's Banaras: City of Light especially Chapter 4 on the banishment of Shivs from that...
Dear Joanna, Your reference to Alan Coult's Hualapai dissertation as preceding his founding of the field of psychedelic anthropology. I myself did not...
Dear Stephen, ... aspects of > the Buddhist set of pii.thas -- mainly concerning the mis-identification of > the location of O.d.diyana. In Buddhist tantric...
Dear Francesco, ... All this to me seems extremely plausible judging from comparative perspectives, Francesco. Reading through these quotations on tantric...
Good discussion from Pal. Do these shaakto pithaas occur in the Devi Mahatmya? Joanna ... From: Francesco Brighenti Dear Stephen, ... aspects of > the Buddhist...
I wasn't accusing you of referring to Alan's psychedelic stuff. Alan sort of went off the deep end on LSD..........but even during that period he was often...
Dear Bob and Max, ... other > Himalayan sanctuaries? ... such > as his 1977 The Indian Mother Goddess, and possibly in History of the > Shakta Religion. The...
Sorry, Joanna, for my ambiguous/civil-servant's style of expression: I too am deeply sympathetic to such work as Coult's, though I don't know too much about ...
... anywhere in S. Asian mythology, Nilima? - Steve.] ... Chandi devi) > Nainital (Naina devi and Ambala ( Amba devi) are just some of the > prominent...
If I may come in here, no Joanna, the sakta piithas do not occur in the Devi Mahatmya. The only geographical terms mentioned are the Ganga, the Himalayas and...
