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initiation, it reveals certain experiences posthumous (our Le Chamanisme, p. 383 et seq.).
ASCENSION TO HEAVEN. MYSTIC FLIGHT
On the second element "shamanic" that identify you as a rope-trick, to say the "ascent to
heaven" is a more complex problem. Indeed, the rite of ascension on the path of post
slaughter (yupa) exists in Vedic India, and outside any shamanic complex: it is a ritual
which is performed by the "split level". However, drawing our attention to certain
similarities in structure between the Indian ritual and shamanic ascent of the tree, we
know that this symbolizes the cosmic tree, however, the sacrificial post (yupa) is also
treated as Cosmic Tree (Rig Veda, III, 8, 3; SotapathaBr., Ill, 6, 4, 13, 7, 1,
Knud Rasmussen, Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos (Copen-hagen, 1929), p.
114.
14, the tree has seven, nine or scanned from
LONES, symbolizing each in a Heaven, and his ascension is equal to the ascent of the
tree or the cosmic pillar, however, the Indian sacrificial rises, also the, the sky through
the sacrificial Post yupa assimilated (TaittiriyaSamhita, VI, 6 , 4, 2, etc.).. The same
symbolism appears in the birth of Buddha newborn, gives seven steps and touch the top
of the world (Matfimanikayalll, 123), as the Altaic shaman at seven or nine notches on
the birch ritual end to get to Heaven (see our Le Chamanisme, ps. 235-362). Afiadir
superfluous as the old cosmological scheme of the heavenly ascent and Vedic shamanic
presented here is enriched with the contribution of ancient Indian metaphysical
theorizing. The Seven Steps of Buddha are not intended as "the world of the gods" and
"immortality" but the overshoot of the human condition.
The conception of the seven heavens, which alludes to Majjia-manikaya goes back to
Brahmanism, and we probably face an influence of the Babylonian cosmology, which
also influenced, though indirectly, on the cosmological conceptions and Altaic Siberian.
But Buddhism also known cosmological scheme of nine heavens, deeply "internalizedzados"
on the other hand, for the first eight heavens correspond to the different stages of
meditation, symbolizes heaven and the last Nirvana. In each of these heavens is projected
a god of the Pantheon. Buddhist, while representing a specified level of meditation
yogui.1 * Now we know that among the seven or nine Altai heavens are inhabited by different
shapes or semi-divine divine the shaman is over his ascension and with which
departe: in the ninth heaven, is before the Supreme Being, Bai Ulgan. Obviously, in
Buddhism it is no longer symbolic of ascension to heaven, but the stages of meditation,
while the "steps" towards final liberation.
The Brahmanic sacrificer ascends to heaven through the ritual of climbing a ladder; the
Buddha transcends the Cosmos licamente symbolized through the seven heavens through
meditation the Yogi makes a boo-far 'of a purely spiritual ascension. All en -
18 W. Ruben, Schamanismus im alten Indien (Acta Orientalia, 17, 1939
ps. 164-205), p. 169 Eliade, Le Chamanisme, P. 365.
temple as well, naked and completely liberated from the flesh and blood perishable and
ephemeral, embodied the same (using) the sacred language of the shamans, to his great
task, through the body part that is designed to withstand longer the action of sun, wind
and time "16
The reduction to a skeleton and the ability to see himself co-mo a skeleton rising above