Re: [evola_as_he_is] Heathen Imperialism and barbarism.
Obviously I have been reading too much Eliade of late, if one can spot a reference to Eliade without me even citing his name.
He does to tend to see shamanism everywhere though I agree - coupled with a tendency to also see yoga everywhere (indeed he even hints at a shared origin for the two).
The problem
of course, lies in the fact that shamanism is too broad a description to be specific enough to be useful; based on the current definitions of shamanism almost everything qualifies. The problem is that the term is generally implied to refer to a system of ahisorical thought or a pre-literate society, and almost any form of magico-religous belief that is pre-literate or whose historical origin and meaning is unknown can have the term bestowed on it. Hence it is employed at times by those who don't really know the specific practice is, therefore it must be shamanism....the problem lies not with Eliade, but with the definition of the word itself.
evola_as_he_is <evola_as_he_is@...> wrote:
"Given the above, I think your appellation of "shamanic warrior" is not completely out of place
here".
That is, if one agrees with and is willing to use Eliade's terminology. Basically, he sees Shamen everywhere, just like others see fertility cults everywhere.
Three heavens there are; two Savitar's, adjacent:
In Yama's world is one, home of heroes.
As on a linch-pin, firm, rest things immortal:
He who hath known it, let him here declare it.
- Rig Veda I.35 (Griffith)
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