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10; Vratya, P. 291. For the five rhythms of breath, see Note III, 2.
8 Frazer. The Dying Cod (London 1918) p. 156-277; nuestrc shamanistic-mo, p. 127.
ing "red dress, practice covers (Ath. Veda, XI, 5, 6-7). In mahavrata, as we saw, a
brahmacarin (- Magadha) ritually joined with pumscali.
We assume that Vratya representing a mysterious confraternity belonging to the vanguard
of the invading Aryans (Hauer). However, there were distinguished the Kesin Rigvedic
too: in some comments, Ruda is called Vratya-pati (Hauer, p. 191) and the Mahabharata
Vratya reserve the term to de-designate to sivaitas Bacchae (Hauer, 233). These trends
orgias-tions must not consign to oblivion the cosmic structure of their "mystical"
experience. However, this type of experience-ba occupies a very important position
among aboriginal peoples, pre-Aryan, which makes it difficult, sometimes, to decide
which things belong to the Indo-European contribution to the substrate and which pre-
Aryan, on his arrival India, the Indo-preserved, they also, a certain number of elements of
archaic culture.
TAPAS AND YOGA
The equivalence between the religious archaism ar-Indo-European and Aboriginal
CAISM this entry well in relief for the practice and theo-ry of the lids. This term (literally
"hot, burning") indicates the ascetic effort in general. The tapas is clearly attested in the
Veda feigning (eg p.1. VIII, 59, 6: X, 136, 2, 154, 2, 4, 167, 1 109, 4, etc.). And powers
are creators, both the cosmic and the spiritual piano, through the ascetic tapas becomes
clairvoyant and participates in the quality of God. Prajapati creates the world "inflame"
dose "to an extreme degree by the ascetic (Aitareya Brahmana, V, 32, I), it creates, in
effect, a kind of magic sweat. For the Brahmanic theory, Prajapati himself was a product
of tapas, at first (aggressive) the Non-being (asat) became spirit (manas) and acalorandose
(atapyata), gave rise to smoke, light, fire and end-mind to Prajapati (Taitt.Br.
II. 2, 9, 1-10; in others, the Non-Being is represented by the primordial waters, Br
Satapatha XI, 1, 6, 1). But the cosmogony and sweat anthropogony are mythical motifs
also found elsewhere (eg North America). You are probably linked to an ideological
Jogia shamanic shamans are known to in-troducon Americans in steam baths to provoke
profuse sweating (our Shamanism, but this habit on the other hand,
is but one aspect of a larger ideological complexity, prior to shamanism itself: we refer to
the "magical heat" and "mastery of fire" (see Shamanism, below). Magically increase the
body's own heat or do-undermine the fire until it becomes insensitive to the temperature
of the grill, are two prestigious universal own-medicine men, shamans and fakirs.
However, as we shall see later, one of the techniques tantric yogi par excellence-is
precisely to produce internal heat ( "mystical heat"). The continuity between known and
oldest technique is tantric yoga on this point, undeniable.
The "sweating creative" and the magic of heat production were equally familiar to the
Indo-Europeans. The human couple na-cio sweat of Ymir and the cause sweating in the
body of Ga-Jomard, Ahura Mazda created man. The Irish hero Cuchulain comes out as
"heated" in his first hazafia warrior (the equivalent of a military initiation), which sets off
the plates and rings of Cuba where he had buried, the same "rage-burning" on-Contra the
hero of the Nartes Caucasians, as demonstrated Badraz.4 ^ Georges Dum zil, several
vocabulary terms "he" ROIC "Indo-European-rage, ferg, wut, less-expressed precisely
this" extreme heat "and that" anger "that characterized in other levels of sacredness, the