scholarly journals Indian Mythical Origin and Symbolic Archetype of Vajra

2011 ◽  
Vol null (33) ◽  
pp. 59-103
Author(s):  
김미숙
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2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankur Betageri

Purānas which get written in accordance with the Vedas recreate the āstika ethos in a completely different social, temporal, and geographical context. Devānga Purāna dated to around 1532 CE and written after the social revolution in Kalyana in the twelfth century reaffirms the strength of the Vedic tradition by embracing the liberal and esoteric elements in Upanishadic thought. In this essay I look at the formation of Vedic ethos by focusing on a mythological narrative concerning the origin of yajñopavīta. I claim that the yajñopavīta was invented to intensify the will to non-knowledge.


1913 ◽  
Vol 45 (02) ◽  
pp. 283-287
Author(s):  
P. R. Gurdon

Mr. Gait, on pp. 71 and 72 of hisHistory of Assam, has given the mythical origin of the Āhoms, the branch of the Shán or Tai race which invaded Assam in the thirteenth century and which held sovereignty there for centuries till A.D. 1826, when Assam became a portion of British India. Mr. Gait's authority was probably the old Āhom Buranji, or history, which with other Buranjis was translated under the orders of the Assam Administration by Srijut Golap Chandra Barua. Mr. Gait describes how Lengdan. the king of heaven, directed his son Thenkham to descend to earth and establish a kingdom there. Thenkham was unwilling to leave heaven, and so it was arranged that his two sons Khunlung and Khunlai should go instead. Lengdan presented them with an idol called Somdeo, a magic sword (or Hengdán), two drums to be used for invoking divine aid, and four cocks for telling the omens.


2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffroy Heimlich ◽  
Jean-Loïc Le Quellec ◽  
Clément Mambu Nsangathi

In Kongo Central, rock art sites stretch from Kinshasa to the Atlantic coast and from northern Angola to southern Congo-Brazzaville. Preliminary research revealed one coherent entity situated north of the Kongo kingdom: the Lovo Massif, presently inhabited by the Ndibu, one of the Kongo subgroups. Comparison of the ethnological, historical, archaeological, and mythological points of view confirms that certain Kongo ritual and symbolic aspects are pre-Christian and refer to cosmogony, anthropogony, or narratives associated with the mythical origin of death. Investigating rock images allows us to better understand the link between the images, the myths, and their repercussions on the life of the Kongo today.


Author(s):  
Édouard Glissant
Keyword(s):  
The Usa ◽  

Here Glissant distinguishes between ‘atavistic’ and ‘composite’ cultures. The former are based on the ideas of a sacred ‘Genesis’ and of ‘filiation’, i.e., an uninterrupted line of descent. ‘Composite’ cultures are creolized, based on a mixture of cultures and with a historical (i.e., formed by colonization) rather than mythical origin: what he terms a ‘digenesis’. But not all multi-ethnic societies are composite: the USA is an example of a culture in which the different groups remain separate.


2001 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 360-361
Author(s):  
Francesco Colli ◽  
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1971 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 230
Author(s):  
J. Gwyn Griffiths ◽  
E. A. E. Reymond
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2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-93
Author(s):  
Jorge Justino Araujo ◽  
Héctor Alejandro Keller ◽  
Norma Inés Hilgert

The study of plant-insect interactions and how cultural groups perceive and manage them constitutes one of the interests of ethnoentomology. This work describes the association between host plants and longhorn beetles (Order: Coleoptera; Family: Cerambycidae), an important food among the Guaraní peoples of the province of Misiones, Argentina. Different management methods of host tree species are analyzed in order to promote the rearing of larvae for edible use. We also discuss a story about the mythical origin of cerambicids relayed by the Ava Chiripa Guaraní community. We reflect on the importance of the local worldview in the maintenance of ancestral practices, such as the cultural tasks involved in slash-and-burn agriculture and the intimate knowledge of biological relationships between the cerambycids and their woody host plants.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-228
Author(s):  
Abd. Rahman

Abstrak Loloda adalah sebuah kata atau konsep yang terkait dengan suatu tempat, bahasa, etnik, mitologi, masyarakat, kerajaan, dan agama, dengan sejarah panjang yang masih kabur. Loloda secara bahasa adalah bahasa orang-orang Loloda, etnik adalah suku bangsa Loloda, mitologi adalah mitos asal mula keberadaan orang dan raja-raja yang pernah menjdi penguasa tertinggi di kerajaan Loloda yang tidak terlepas dari tradisi-tradisi lokal masyarakatnya. Loloda adalah suatu komunitas masyarakat yang telah sejak berabad-berabad yang lalu mendiami sebuah wilayah geografis yang luas. Loloda adalah salah satu kerajaan yang berada di kawasan Laut dan Kepulauan Maluku bagian utara yang cenderung belum dikenalLoloda dan Moro, oleh kebanyakan ahli dianggap adalah dua kerajaan yang sejauh ini belum diketahui kapan terbentuknya. Namun untuk Loloda sendiri menurut beberapa tradisi lokal mengatakan bahwa secara politis kerajaan ini sudah ada sejak tahun 1220 (abad ke-13), sedangkan Moloku Kie Rahayang terbentuk berdasarkan perjanjian Moti/Traktat Moti dan terkonfigurasi pula ke dalam Motir Staten Verbond1322-1343, secara bersamaan baru muncul pada 1320-an (abad ke-14).Sejak abad ke-15 (1486)---Loloda is a word or concept associated with a place, language, ethnic, mythology, society, empire, and religion, with a long history that is still vague. Loloda in the language is the language of the people Loloda, ethnic tribes are Loloda, mythology is the mythical origin of the existence of people and the kings that ever menjdi highest ruler in the kingdom Loloda which is inseparable from the traditions of local communities. Loloda is a community of people who have since many centuries ago inhabited a vast geographical area. Loloda is one of the kingdom which is in the Mediterranean region and northern Maluku Islands which tend not dikenalLoloda and Moro, by most experts consider these two kingdoms which so far is not yet known when the formation. But for Loloda itself according to some local traditions say that politically this kingdom has existed since 1220 (the 13th century), while Kie Rahayang Moloku formed by Moti agreement / treaty Moti and configured into the inner Motir Staten Verbond1322-1343, simultaneously emerged in the late 1320s (the 14th century) .Since the 15th century (1486)


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