midaughter
December 12th, 2007, 09:57 PM
The Great Yu and the Great Daughter
According to Taoist author, Eva Wong, in her book suitably named 'Taoism,' about 5,000 before Yu the Great of the Xia, a tribal chieften also named Yu was taught the Pace of Yu by a daughter of a great chieften and powerful tribe. Eva Wong is a practitioner and author on alchemy also. She provides no further information on this Great Daughter.
The Shamaness Performs the Pace of Yu Traditionally in the Siberian Steppes
Of course, no one can know for certain if men were involved in the ritual as Siberia is a great big place. There have been certain characteristic s of the ritual found upon the ancient Ainu of Japan who probably are so ancient they learned the ceremony when there existed a land bridge to China from Japan. In Tuva, famous for its throat singers. and Taoist sects the dance is now the province of men, of Hexagram 29, the martial arts and war.
China and Tibet have two clans/tribes of spiritual leadership coming from the Steppes: the Ainu is the main tribe whose rituals are even today performed by Tibetan Monks in secret ceremonies. That the Buddha Manjushri is considered the partron saint of the Manchu itself suggests that during the 400 year rule of China by the Manchu, some of the ritual would be found also among the Manchu
In order to do the dance the shaman first transforms herself into the bear by donning a bear's robe and wearing the paws of the bear over his hands. The shaman and his assistants increase the tempo of the drums and rattles. The shaman calls the bear's spirit and begins making sounds of the bear's cries and growls. The shaman begins the dance by walking as a human would walk and then changing his gait to that of a bear. We can imagine the steppes, blazing with stars with the tribe assembled, watching, their faces flickering in the fire as the the drumming and rattling increasing in intensity as the shaman at last in the trance of rapture, cries to his familiars "Ferry me across!" Imperceptibly he had changed from a human into a bear in gait and gesture. Finally the shaman assumes the magical persona of the Bear. As the Great Bear he is seeking to "overhear" the will of heaven and act as an intermediary between the earthly and heavenly realm. This is the highest ritual duty of the emperor or Eldest Son:bows:, so seriously taken it was given over to courtiers, dogmatic and narrow and the process of entropy reveals itself.
PS Bradford look for "Siberian Mummy" in Discovery. A woman, very young shaman from Eastern Siberia.
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According to Taoist author, Eva Wong, in her book suitably named 'Taoism,' about 5,000 before Yu the Great of the Xia, a tribal chieften also named Yu was taught the Pace of Yu by a daughter of a great chieften and powerful tribe. Eva Wong is a practitioner and author on alchemy also. She provides no further information on this Great Daughter.
The Shamaness Performs the Pace of Yu Traditionally in the Siberian Steppes
Of course, no one can know for certain if men were involved in the ritual as Siberia is a great big place. There have been certain characteristic s of the ritual found upon the ancient Ainu of Japan who probably are so ancient they learned the ceremony when there existed a land bridge to China from Japan. In Tuva, famous for its throat singers. and Taoist sects the dance is now the province of men, of Hexagram 29, the martial arts and war.
China and Tibet have two clans/tribes of spiritual leadership coming from the Steppes: the Ainu is the main tribe whose rituals are even today performed by Tibetan Monks in secret ceremonies. That the Buddha Manjushri is considered the partron saint of the Manchu itself suggests that during the 400 year rule of China by the Manchu, some of the ritual would be found also among the Manchu
In order to do the dance the shaman first transforms herself into the bear by donning a bear's robe and wearing the paws of the bear over his hands. The shaman and his assistants increase the tempo of the drums and rattles. The shaman calls the bear's spirit and begins making sounds of the bear's cries and growls. The shaman begins the dance by walking as a human would walk and then changing his gait to that of a bear. We can imagine the steppes, blazing with stars with the tribe assembled, watching, their faces flickering in the fire as the the drumming and rattling increasing in intensity as the shaman at last in the trance of rapture, cries to his familiars "Ferry me across!" Imperceptibly he had changed from a human into a bear in gait and gesture. Finally the shaman assumes the magical persona of the Bear. As the Great Bear he is seeking to "overhear" the will of heaven and act as an intermediary between the earthly and heavenly realm. This is the highest ritual duty of the emperor or Eldest Son:bows:, so seriously taken it was given over to courtiers, dogmatic and narrow and the process of entropy reveals itself.
PS Bradford look for "Siberian Mummy" in Discovery. A woman, very young shaman from Eastern Siberia.
from Midaughter's List