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as called three times without re-CIBIR answer, then took a knife, as if glue-curly, it took
the rope and disappeared too. Then a hand shot into the floor of the girls do, then one
foot, the other hand, the other foot The body and head went down, panting, his clothes
were blood-Chad man (...) • As the Amir ordered him something, our hom-bre take the
ends of a teenager, joined, and behold, that the child is rises and stands erect. muchi This
surprises me nth, and suffered a palpitation of the heart similar to the one I had when I
witnessed something similar in the king's palace in India. .. "11 With regard to Europe, a
number of texts, to me "we are from the thirteenth century, they refer to exactly the same
miracles, performed by magicians and sorcerers, who also owned the power to fly and
become invisible, as shamans and yoguis.13
11 Travel of Ibn Batoutah, Arabic text, accompanied by a traduction of
C. Dr. B. Defremeryy R. Sanguinetti, t. IV (Paris, SocUti Asiatique, 1822),
ps. 291-292. For biographies on miracles fakirs, see Note VIII, 5.
12 Examples collected by A. Jacoby, Zum Zerttiickdtmg and Wieder -
belebungswunder der Indischen Fakir (Archivjilr ReligionswUaenschaft, vol. 17
1914, ps. 455-475), p. 466 ff. You can not even decide formally whether the
rope trick of European magicians is due to the influence of Oriental magic or
techniques derived from ancient local chamalucas. The fact that, firstly,
the rope-trick is registered in Mexico, and the dismemberment other initia -
tico of the magician is also found in Australia, Indonesia and South America,
In this "miracle" we can distinguish two different Shamanic elements: l9) the
dismemberment (iniciatieo rite) and 2) the ascent to heaven. For the moment let's
consider the first item. "We know that during their" suefios initiations, the shaman
futures asis-ten at their own dismemberment executed for "ghosts" or "devils" who play
the role of teachers in the initiation: they cut the head and also pequefios the body into
pieces, they are lim-pian bones, etc., and finally the "demons" the bones together and
covered with meat Jos new. (See the materials in our Le Chamanisme, p. 47 et seq., With
accompanying commentary from all those symbol-ism.) We are here with ecstatic
experience initiatic structure: a symbolic death is followed by the renovation of the
organs and the resurrection of the candidate. It is useful to recall that vi-sions and similar
experiences are also among the Australians, Eskimos, American and African tribes (our
Le Chamanisme, p. 55 et seq.). We are thus in the presence of an extremely archaic
initiatic technique.
Now if the "miracle of the chord" shines spectacular elements of this scheme iniciatieo
shamanic, Indo-Tibetan rituals are even close to him, from the point of view of the
structure. Behold, according to the summary that gives Bleich-steiner, a Himalayan and
Tibetan tantric ritual, the tcho (gtchod), which is to provide our own flesh to be devoured
by demons. "To the sound of the drum made from human skulls, and the trumpet carved
from a femur, dedicates one to dance and spirits are invited to the festivities. The power
of meditation gives rise to a goddess with a naked sword, she jumps to the head of
offering the sacrifice, the decapitated and quartered, then the demons and wild beasts
rush on the spoils throbbing, eat the meat and drink the blood. The remarks refer to
certain Jatakas, described how Buddha, during his previous lives, he came to his own
demons and hungry animals anthro-phage "18
inclines us to believe that in Europe, could be a magical ténica survival of local pre-Indo-