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571, note.
81 A. Griinwedel, Der Wegnach Sambhala (Abhandlungen d. konig. Bayer Akademie.
Wissenschaften, Phi!. U. hist. Klasse, XXIX, 3 Abb. Miinchen, 1915), p. 28 (17 a). It is
worth insisting on the structure of this shamanistic mythology of witches.
ple, represented in the cakra, alongside other deities. Some are of Tibetan origin: the lama
kept up its Tibetan name (lhamo, "devil"). These facts illustrate the coalescence of
popular cults and Himalayan Buddhist Tantrism (see also Note HIV, 7).
According to the Rasaratnacara alchemical treatise, attributed to Nagarjuna, this would
have acquired the secrets of alchemy at the end of a twelve afios asceticism spent in
adoration of the goddess Yaksini, which protects the Ficus religiosa (PC. Ray, A History
of Hindu Chemistry, II, p. 7). The Yaksay the Yaksini constitute the large class of local
divi-nities to which Hindus eventually assimilate all religious forms minors aborigines
mostly. Yaksa The term first appears in the Jaiminiya-Brahmana (III, 203, 272), where it
means "being beautiful", but the common sense of "spirit", "genius" with the newly
imposed Grhya-Sutra ( Coomaraswamy, yaks, I, p. 5). In the Epic, yaks are well known
already, and last of the Mahabharata passage states that men of temperament "sattvic"
worship the gods (deva), those of femperamento "rajasic" worship and raksasa yaks, and
those temperament "tamas", the preta (ghost) and bhttta (the spirits of the dead, ghosts
generally ma-ligne). First effort of assimilation and classification tempted by Hinduism
struggling with this considerable mass of jinn and demons of Aboriginal religion.
Relatively few yaksa have a name, but Coomaraswamy believes (op. cit, ps. 9-10) as very
likely that the goddess Sitala, Olabibi (goddess of cholera), the Seven Mothers (in partial
union with Kubera, king of yaks), the 64 dakini yogini and certain forms of Devi, most of
it-the gods of India and to the Great Durga, were Yaksa at first, that is, add on our part,
they were regarded as such in the environments Brahmins. Anyway, yaks and Yaksini
represent the form-type of aboriginal religious devotion: for this is that both Hinduism
and Buddhism-two were forced to assimilate. (Hariti, Mother-of-hell, you originally
chickenpox goddess, became the Buddhism in Yaksini of great importance.)
For worship of yaks, can raise altars everywhere. The essential element is what the table
or altar stone (veyaddimar.co) placed under the sacred tree (Coomaraswa –
p. The extreme cultural denotes a type -
ai old mind assimilated catiya worship. This term sometimes designated naba hierofanico
only the tree, not the altar, on other occasions was a construction caitya next to a tree.
The cult of the caitya has happened to Tibet, where he acquired a very pronounced fuingly,
many of these caitya have been elevated to keep the ashes of lamas (Tucci,
Mc'odRien and Ts'aTs'a, P. 24).
"The cult of the structure was ydksa devotional, ie
part of the mainstream popular bhakti. Because, as
Coomaraswamy has observed (op. cit, p. 27 et seq.). Visnu and
Siva were not the only ones who crystallized the popular bhakti Alre -
DEDOR of their respective religions, as other religious movements
sos, including Buddhism, did the same. Buddhism I adopt the
iconographic motive of "Women and the Tree" pre-Aryan origin,
whose roots lie deep in the cults of the vegeta -
cion. In addition, yaks have been considered as the protectors