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caused and encouraged by the Tantric yogi: an archaic myth is an integral part of both
yoga and the popular devotion of the Great Goddess of fertility: the place consecrated by
the conquest of the liberation yogi tornose sacred because it was said later that it
contained a member of the Great Goddess, Durga, in her role as wife of Sakti and Siva,
the Goddess becomes the yogis and ascetics, being, for the rest of the population, as the
Great Goddess of vegetation and fertility.
HERITAGE Dravidian, MUNDA, Proto-World
Not dwell here on the cultural and linguistic influences rjercidas by Dravidian peoples of
the Indo-Aryans. (Show-ing some indications HIV in Note 8.) Let us note only that the
essence of Hinduism, devotional worship, puja, is a Dravidian contribution. Fl term bid
would also be of Dravidian origin (Gundert and Kittel linking him with a root Dravida,
ta-mule language pusu in caii puru, "spreads, anoint, tenir). On the mystical devotion,
bhakti, is probably native structure, either Dravidian, and pre-Dravidian, in any form, the
bhakti has played an important role in Hinduism, cleansed of the excesses of the magic
and scholastic ritualistic. The bhakti was intended either to God, the Great Goddess or
any of the countless gramavedata that represented. The gramave-data of particular
interest to us, for their worship in-cludes extremely archaic elements. All Ja religious life
of Southern India is concentrated around these local deities, manifestations of the Great
Goddess. But it is precisely this type of worship which prevailed in popular Hinduism:
India oncontr6 in gramavedata veneration of his own religious vocation. Among the
names of the Great Goddess, manifested through those "village deities," noted Ellamma,
Mariyamma, Pidari, Ambika (Dravida atnma a root, "mother"). Your icons are a ve-ces
simple stone figures of the female generative organ (yoni) But the Great Goddess
Dravidian features no-giasticos bloody, or Kali-Durga. There are still traces of a primitive
and androgynous Great God (Kadaval), but their role in worship is of little importance.
Among the names of the Great God let us note the Yogi Dravidian, probably introduced
as a result of coalescence with Siva.
The places of worship of gramavedata mainly found near some trees. Integrated among
many other elements of archaic culture, of which we now turn continuation, this detail
could denote an ancient stratum, pre-agricultural, the religion of the vegetation. Indeed,
note in the Australo-Asian peoples of the South Sea custom of calling to the countries
and races with names taken from the plant world. However, Jean Przyluski demonstrated
that the Sanskrit term Udumbara that while Ficus glomerata designates a region of Punjab
and its inhabitants, attests to the existence of Australo-Asian populations in northern
Punjab. This proves that pre-Dravidian peoples who speak languages Munda, had a
marked influence on culture and religion of the Indo-Aryans. Return to this point. For
now, note the survival, in the cult of gramade-Vata, other elements of the archaic
religion, pre-Dravidian. For one of the favorite pictures of gramadevata is the vessel, and
oc-rre that embodies the vessel Diosa.33 The annual festival of the Goddess, a decorated
vessel is carried in procession around the village (Oppert, Original Inhabitants , p. 461 ff.;
Whitehead, Village Gods, p. 38, etc.).. In sacrificial ceremonial occasion, the whole
population gathers outside the village and a vessel (karagam), representing the Goddess
angry, is carried solemnly to the center of town, where he stayed three days, once after
that time, the vessel is taken outside the village and broken into pieces (Oppert, p 463).