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commercial relations between China and Iran are very anti-guages, on the other (B.
Laufer, Sino-Iranica. Chicago, Field Museum, 1919, p. IS9). The role of labor in the
kingdom-Roman trade but has been well highlighted, according to Chinese sources, by F.
Hirth, China and the Roman Orient (Shanghai, 1885), p. 42, 70, 173, 174. On the role of
the Arabs, see Hirth and W. W. Rockhill, Chan \ u Kua, His work on the Chinese and
Arab Trade ... entitled Chu-fan-chi (Petersburg, 1911), p. 2-15. See also our book,
Alchimia Asidtica, P. 42-44. On the penetration of ideas mediterranean in China, see
Dubs, cited, p. 82-83, notes 122-123.
Note VII, 5: Metallurgy and Alchemy
We have studied in other works the relation between shamans and herre-ros: Le
Chamanisme, P. 408. Chinese mythological traditions sympathize with the founders of
the dynasties and the "secrets" Metallurgical, see Marcel Cranet, Ltgendes Danses et de la
Chine ancienne (Paris, 1926), vol. II, p. 609 et seq., Passim. Furnaces for melting metals
were assimilated to the cosmic principles: Yu linked to five furnaces and four with yin
yang, as Chinese metals divided into masculine and feminine: Cranet, cited, p. 496; F. of
Mely, L'alchimie chez les Chinois (JournalAsiatique, 1895, p. 314-340; this is an article
that should be discussed with caution), p. 330 and ff. The ovens have become a kind of
judges, for the simple fact that an operation was taking place sacred in them could
recognize the virtue and the greatest punishment inflicted on a condemned prisoner was
boiled to do so in this kind of homos. The construction of a furnace was an act of virtue,
and was to be em-pinned by a man who knows "the rituals of art" (Granet, cited, p. 491,
496).
The Rig Veda (X, 72, 2) still preserves the tradition of certain drugs vegeta-les (jaratibhih
osaddhibhih) who owned the blacksmith; on this issue, see Manindranath Benerjee, Iron
and Steel in the Rigvedic Age (Indian Historical Quarterly, vol . V, No. 3, 1929, p. 432-
437), idem, On Metals and Metallurgy in Ancient India (Ind. Hist. Quart., 1927, p. 121-
133, 793-802).
Not dwell on relations, infinitely complex between the Cyclops, the fingerprint, the
Curettes, the Telchines and metalworking R. Eisler, Das und die Qainzeinchen Kenites
(Le Monde Oriental, vol. 23, 1929, p. 48-112: blacksmiths, dancers, magicians); Bengt1
Hemberg, Die Kabir (Uppsala, 1950), p. 286 et seq., Idem, Die Idaiischen DaktUen
(Eranos, vol. 50, Uppsala, 1952, p. 41-59).
It is likely that the minerals were extracted from a mine similar to embryo Kubu
Babylonian word has been translated as "embryo" for certain authors, and other
"abortion", see the bibliography and the essence of the con-troversy in our study
Metallurgy, Magic and Alchemy (Paris-Bucharest, 1938), p. 30 et seq. Anyway, there is a
hidden symmetry between the metal and obstetrics: the sacrifice that was made at times
close to the kilns where they were preparing minerals, resembles obstetric sacrifices, the
oven was treated as a matrix, that was where the "embryos" mineral "debian lle-var to
term growth, improve, and in a time considerably shorter than they would need to be
hidden in the bosom of the earth. In turn, the alchemist continued and perfected the work
of nature, while working in their own development: suefia with "terminating" the growth
of metals, to transmute them into gold.
Note VIII, 1: On the Aghori, the Kapalika and worship of the skulls
See W. Crooke, Aghori (Hasting's Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, vol I, p. 210-