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Identifier: opencourt_oct226292caru (find matches)
Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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hopeless con-flict.... At one period of the ceremony a holy man. .. .blessed agoblet of water by laying his hands on it and intoning some prayeror charm. Then he sprinkled the water in all directions, and thedefeated demons stayed their shrieking, dancing, and infernal music,and gradually krept out of the arena, and no sound was heard fora time but the sweet singing of the holy choir. The dance of the nine skeletons around a corpse (describedby Dr. Laufer, p. 599) has no other significance than to show thepower of religious exorcism, but while the protectors of the ceme-tery are on the side of the Buddhist priests and assist them in theirbeneficial work, the nine skeletons are hostile demons bent uponmischief and they must be prevented from doing any injury to thedead who are protected by the mystic means of salvation. These 624 THE OPEN COURT. skeletons are either ghosts or demons of decay, but the) no morerepresent ^ama. the god of Death, than do the two protectors of thegraveyard.
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The same is true of \etalas who are spirits capable of reani-mating dead bodies. Accordingly there is a marked difference be-tween the Christian and the Tibetan Death dances. The former TUl-: SKELETON AS A REPRESENTATION OF DEATH. 625 ones, though called dances are not always dances, but simply illus-trations of the innumerable ways of Death, and Death is repre-sented in them as a skeleton. It is noteworthy that the dead are ^***

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  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Carus__Paul__1852_1919
  • bookauthor:Open_Court_Publishing_company__Chicago
  • booksubject:Religion
  • booksubject:Religion_and_science
  • bookpublisher:Chicago___The_Open_Court_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Morris_Library__Southern_Illinois_University_Carbondale
  • booksponsor:CARLI__Consortium_of_Academic_and_Research_Libraries_in_Illinois
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