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festivities "of station" and the orgies that took place then were specific notes archaic cult
of vegetation, pre-Indo-European. It is interesting to see that certain traditions designate
the Kapalika as the initiators of these orgies "stations", which also attended the
lokayatika: is included in the same system at the festivals of the vegetation, a tantric
orgies and eccentric behavior of the "materialists" of the cannibals and carrying skulls.
This detail shows us the meaning of tantric yoga futures contacts with Aboriginal
spiritual values.
Heine-Geldner relate human sacrifice and the hunt for skulls widely recorded in Assam
and Burma, with an ideology that remains even matriarchal in Tibet and the Himalayan
regions. In India itself, some of these archaic cultural elements played a role later in the
phenomenal momentum of tantric caktismo (whose focus was precisely in the Assam =
Kamarupa). Such are the ethnological evidence but there are still a problem hist6ricoreligious
aspect, namely the spiritual revalorization habits that in-clude prehistoric human
sacrifices and worship of the skulls, and this is the aspect that most concerns us here.
Here's how we imagine the process: l9) an archaic ideology, coupled with some lunar
symbolism, meant, among other things, human sacrifice and the hunt for the skulls,
people who shared this ideology were, in historical times in the bordering areas of
Hinduism, 29) in the high Hindu spiritualism piano, cemetery, dead bodies, skeletons
have been revalued and integrated into a symbolism asc & ico-mystic: medi-tar sitting on
a corpse, carry a skull , etc., are now pursuing spiritual exercises a kind of "values"
completely different, for example, the headhunters, 3 °) when the two ideologies have
come in contact, whether in the border areas (Assam, Himalaya) and in the inner regions
of India where the elements of archaic culture had been preserved better, we witness
phenomena of pseudc-morph and devaluation. We then understand that this or that way
tantric yoga takes a certain level licentious culture saturated with matriarchal elements, is
also understood that a kapa-lin Yogi forgets the signification of "cadaver" and "skeleton"
and becomes headhunter, thus becoming cannibalistic behavior (unless the "philosophy"
of cannibalism, as Volhart demonstrate, is not as aberrant as it appears in the eyes of a
modern man). These degradations and reciprocity-ing devaluations are mainly explained
by "symbolic confusion", by forgetting, or insufficient understanding of the symbolism.
Occasion will we find the same phenomenon in other cultural contexts and with respect
to other symbols, mythologies and techniques that became part of Yoga.
GORAKHNATH and 84 SIDDHA
A considerable number of yogis are adept at Gorakhnath and are called yogi Gorakhnathi
or Kanphata, this last expression is re-fiere the fact that at the time of initiation, they
pierce their ears to introduce outstanding enonnes (kan = ear, Phata = = cleft). We have
seen in previous pages that the Hatha yoga Gorakhnath claimed as a founder, the alleged
author of the first treaty of its system, now defunct treaty. Still, relations between
Gorakhnath, the Hathayoga Kanphata and-so is beyond dispute: the Kanphata they call
themselves "Yogi", simply, and literature includes a number of texts hatha-yogis,
including the most celebrated texts are Hathayoga-PRADI-pika Gherandasamhita, Sivasamhita,
Goraksa-Satake, and so on. But the ascetic order exceeds the limits of ideology
and hathayoguis disciplines. Indeed, this is a very im-portant movement seems to have
enjoyed great popularity after the twelfth century AD, and which converged large number
of traditions and religious practices, magical and alchemical, sivaitas in its majority, but