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"In the streets of Berlin, Paris or London," as for instance
A.Baeumler, a famous National-Socialist scholar, wrote, "all you have
to do is to observe for a moment a man or a woman to realise that the
cult of Aphrodite is the one before which Zeus and Apollo had to beat
a retreat... The present age bears, in fact, all the features of a
gynaecocratic age. In a late and decadent civilisation, new temples
of Isis and Astarte, of these Asian mother goddesses that were
celebrated in orgies and licentiousness, in desperate sinking into
sensual pleasure, arise. The fascinating female is the idol of our
times, and, with painted lips, she walks through the European cities
as she once did through Babylon. And as if she wanted to confirm
Bachofen's profound intuition, the lightly dressed modern ruler of
man keeps in leash a dog, the ancient symbol of unlimited sexual
promiscuity and infernal forces".

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--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "Savitar Devi"
<savitar_devi@...> wrote:
>
> Here follows selected extracts form David Gordon White's 'Myths of
the
> Dog Man' (University of Chicago Press), which is an attempt to
locate
> the origin of cynocephalism myths (Dog headed or Dog faced races).
What
> follows in his hypothesis is a contention that myths of the Amazons
and
> the Cynocephali derive from the same source - and furthermore
relates
> this race to 'caste-mixing'. It is noteworthy that he even
designates a
> geographical location to these peoples.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
----
> --------------------
> 'Following Adam of Bremen, the theme of male Cyncophali cohabiting
with
> Amazon women would become a constant in the medieval geography and
> cartography of northern Europeans [...] Adam's amazing account,
which
> brings together nearly all of the Western lore of the Cynocephali
into a
> single confused mass, is innovative inasmuch as it suggests that the
> male offspring of the gynecocratic Amazons were the Cynocephali'.
P61
>
> 'The myths of the Visvamitra cycle constitute one explanation for
the
> origins and existence of the fallen or exiled races of Dog-Cookers
on
> the periphery of society and the borderline of human categories.
There
> is, however, an alternative explanation, one that is found in both
the
> didactic epic and the lawbooks of the beginning of the Common Era.
This
> is the ideology of damnation through miscegenation, or more
properly,
> through the mixing of castes (varnasamkara), the blurring of
categories
> in its most extreme form. [...]"From the sudra spring, in the
inverse
> order, three low-born sons: the Ayogava, the Ksattr, and the
Candala,
> the lowest of men...One born from a Ksattr man and an Ugra woman is
> called a Svapaka(Dog-cooker or Suckled by Dogs). [...] The
Mahabharata
> also offers various alternative cycles of rebirths into which high-
caste
> persons may fall through evil acts. If the individual falls into an
> animal level of existence, the dog is generally his last sub-human
> incarnation, or the Svapaca his first human incarnation.' P87
>
> 'Tibet and Afghanistan are precisely the two regions in which
medieval
> Indian sources located their Dog-Men and Kingdoms of Women, both of
> which seem to identify, as we will show, with the Hunas, the
Ephalite
> Huns. These two "Indian" locations are, moreover, seconded by both
> Wsteern and Chinese sources. Varahamihira is the most systematic
Indian
> source on this subject: in Brhat Samhita 14.21-27, he locates the
> Kingdom of Women (Strirajya) to the west, the Parathas and Sakas to
the
> Northwest, and the Hunas and Svamukhas to the north of India. This
last
> people, whose name means the "Dog-Faces" or "Dog-Heads", is one of
the
> rare Indian references to a race of cynocephalic men [...] It is
> intriguing to find in t he Indian material - as we have in the
European
> context - a textual (if not geographical) juxtaposition of Dog-
Headed
> Men with both a Kingdom of Women (called the Amazons in the West)
and
> with the Parthians, Indo-Scythians, and Huns [...] furthermore, all
five
> were brought together in the lists of inclusi that continued the
> traditions of Psuedo-Callisthenes and Pseudo-Methodius. In these
> sources, these peoples are walled outside of the oikoumene because
of
> their cannibalism, abominable eating habits, and unspeakable
impurity.
> This last element has a foreign ring to it in the Western texts;
yet it
> fits very well with the Indian ideology of the outcaste or
foreigner as
> impure pariah.' 119
>
> 'Here, we would do well to review such identification, one we
introduced
> provisionally in chapter 6, that central Asia was the point of
> intersection of Western, Indian, and Chinese accounts of Dog-Men,
Amazon
> women, and other barbarian races. We intimated a connection between
the
> works of Pseudo-Methodious and other Western sources, which posited
a
> fare eastern location of their Amazons, Cynocephali and other
inclusi;
> of Indian accounts of northern Dog-faces, the Kingdom of Women, and
the
> polyandrous Ephthalite Huns; and of Chinese reports of Amazons and
> Dog-Men beyond its western borders. A closer look at these accounts
> however reveals that many of these correspondences are the fruit of
> creative geography on the part of our ancient and medieval sources,
of
> attempts to force a variety of geographical locations into a single
> Asain mold.' 183
>
> 'This would correspond to a location somewhere in the region of the
> Hindu Kush, the central Asian region where Alexander's historians,
> Arrian and Quintius Curtius Rufus, tell us that Alexander turned his
> back in his conquest of the world. It was here that, in the high
peaks
> on the eastern edge of the world, his men refused to advance any
> further. This would correspond, approximately to Indian locations
of the
> Svamukhas, the Kingdom of Women, and the Hunas. Furthermore, it is
in
> this broad region of "Southern Turkestan" that we find the greatest
> number of Turko-Mongol peoples with a dog ancestry myth.' 184
>
> 'It is only by accepting such geographical tampering - which, when
the
> Caspian is made to be a great arm of the northern sea, would reduce
the
> Asian land mass by half - that it is possible to maintain our
contention
> that central Asia was the vortex of all myths of cynocephali. Here,
we
> are perhaps better served by the term "Turkestan", as employed by
> McGovern, for the world region in which Dog-Men, Amazons, and their
> barbarian, cannibalistic brethren would have been located. In doing
so,
> however, we give up any claims we may have made in pinpointing the
> original locus of traditions of cynocephali: Turkestan, the lands
of the
> nomadic Turk-Mongols, covers most of Asia north of 30 degrees
latitude
> and east of 40 degrees longitude, from Turkey to Siberia, and from
the
> Baltic Sea to Western China!' 185
>
>  
>









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Here follows selected extracts form David Gordon White's 'Myths of the Dog Man' (University of Chicago Press), which is an attempt to locate the origin of...
Savitar Devi
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Apr 1, 2006
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"In the streets of Berlin, Paris or London," as for instance A.Baeumler, a famous National-Socialist scholar, wrote, "all you have to do is to observe for a...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Apr 1, 2006
7:33 pm

Has anyone related this to the rise of the Wiccan movement as yet? It seems to be an even purer manifestation of this phenomenon than the original cults. I had...
Savitar Devi
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Apr 2, 2006
10:10 am

"(...)Bachofen noted that, against the substratum of a more ancient world, suffused with a 'civilisation of the Mother', the opposite civilisation, virile and...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Apr 2, 2006
8:39 pm

It seems quite evident that there were at least two competing religions at some point, one Aryan and one non-Aryan. One of them is quite nicely etched in...
Savitar Devi
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Apr 3, 2006
8:24 pm

Swasti! I want to confine myself in commenting only one remark, without making any statement about the correctness of other points. ... a constant in the...
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Apr 3, 2006
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From the same book - 'The Icelandic Eddas name Hundingr as the king of Hundland, "Dog-land"; the pre-tenth-century Anglo-Saxon Widsith mentions the Hundingar...
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Apr 3, 2006
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