"Magical Medicine"
pp. 82-83 Daemon-Statutes of Nu:-c^>in (by the Caelestial Master C^an Tao-lin)
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corner-dir. on Mt. T>ai-S^an |
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High Lord of the Daemones |
Heaven's Successor |
southeast |
1000-feet-tall, reporting to heaven |
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Thrice-Antient Daemon of South Village |
Daemon of the 5 Ways |
C^u: "carriage" |
Ni "hidden" |
northwest |
to summon the dying by his written orders to killer-daemones |
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Headless Daemon in the Clouds |
Dead General of Broken Armies |
Li |
San-k>o |
is followed by the 5 Dipper-constellation daemones |
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Daemon of Great Harmony |
P>i |
bodiless head: its exhalation formeth clouds |
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Xiu-constellations (AChChSh) |
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mountain-spectre |
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21st |
"mountains" |
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tree-spectre |
22nd |
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stones |
23rd |
"jade" |
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tigers |
24th |
"carpentry" {either a carpenter or a panther was father to Yes^uwa< Mas^yah} |
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snakes |
104 |
25th |
"clothing" [snakes shed their skins, like doffing clothing] |
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monkeys |
26th |
"food" {the monkey Vr.s.a-kapi stole food in the R.c Veda} |
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foxes |
27th |
"actors" [in Chinese & Japanese folklore, foxes praetend to be people] |
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twisted trees |
28th |
"Chariot Cross-board" |
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5 sorts of puddle |
[none] |
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male & female, of debauchery |
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1st |
"Horn" [horniness = debauchery?] |
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5 sorts of pestilence |
96 |
2nd |
"epidemics" |
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house |
4th |
"Chamber", "Hall" |
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eating-utensils |
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5th |
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toilet |
6th |
"Tail" [from under tail come faeces] |
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well |
98 |
8th |
"Machinery" [hoist for well-bucket?] |
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hearth |
9th |
"Accumulated Fire" |
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bed |
99 |
10th |
"concubine" |
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sound of drums |
11th |
"Emptiness" [hollowness of drums?] |
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pipes of the reed-organ |
12th |
"reclaiming land" [by draining cane-brakes?] |
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ditches |
13th |
"public works" [trench around fort?] |
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drains |
100 |
15th |
"canals and waterways" |
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spears |
16th |
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knives |
17th |
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armor |
18th |
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the 1000-year-old White Bone Daemon |
101 |
19th |
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the 100-year-old White Bone Daemon |
102 |
20th |
"Turtle Beak" [beak-cartilage is similar to bone; Galapago turtles live 100 years] |
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the 50-year-old daemon |
[none] |
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"the text reiterates that for every living being in the world, there are a thousand million demons ..."
[AChChSh = Ho Peng Yoke: The Astronomical Chapters of the Chin Shu. Paris: Mouton & Co., MCMLXVI.]
pp. 93-94 Spirit-Spells of the Abyss -- s[ahasra] = 10^3; m[yriad] = 10^4
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the __ |
the "Great Kings of Malignant Wraiths of the __ Heavens" |
lead a troop of __ myriads |
that specialize in spreading __ ailments |
p. 93 symptoms of pestilential color-headed killer-demons |
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3 |
48 m |
red |
"capturing" |
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80 m |
6 |
700 m |
white |
"Sudden Turmoil" |
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94 |
60 m |
9 |
33 s |
black |
"government officials" |
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36 |
70 m |
yellow |
diarrhoea |
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7 |
9,000,000 m |
blue |
[green] swellings |
p. 93 90,000,000 m "great gods" provide cures
p. 100 the "five caverns" (instead of the later 3) as classes of literature of the early Lin-pao canon
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"__ Cavern" |
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1st |
Primordial |
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2nd |
Abyss |
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3rd |
Void |
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4th |
Numinous |
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5th |
Nil |
p. 101 the "spell of the star T>ien-p>en ("Caelestial Beacon")" in the Declarations of the Perfect Ones of the S^an-c^>in
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"Blue of tongue, green of tooth, The four-eyed ancient ... |
4-eyed bear-masked funeral tomb-consecrator; cf. Sardinian (Nuraghi) 4-eyed god; Dahomean 4-eyed death-god [I]Ku |
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Let heaven's cavalry soar upward, Overawe the north with lances at the ready. |
Cf. Zaratustrian heavenly cavalry |
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Assign three hundred thousand infantry On guard about my nine-walled citadel." |
Cf. concentrically-walled Hagmatana (in Media); concentrically-walled Sacsahuaman (in Peru) |
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How deities slay a daemon: |
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"May the Heaven-Snatcher with his great axe strike off his head and all his other limbs, |
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The Flaming Monarch crackle his blood, |
Cf. Hephaistos |
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The Northern Dipper roast his bones, |
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The Four Luminaries snap his skeleton, |
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The Ape of Heaven wipe out his clan." |
Cf. Hanumant battling Raks.asa-s in Lanka |
p. 112-113 Man.i-ratna Book -- types of daemones
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of __ |
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p. 112 |
army-camps |
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post-stations |
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those who died __ |
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in prison |
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in bondage |
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by water and drowning |
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by fire and burning |
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away from home and have not, as of yet, been buried |
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in the marketplace |
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on the road |
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of thirst |
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of hunger |
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of coughing |
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of cold |
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by a weapon |
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by blood [sepsis?] |
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by rotting meat [gangrene?] |
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by being beaten |
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in a fight |
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from being struck with a staff |
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from being strangled |
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by hanging themselves |
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by stabbing themselves |
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by an enemy's hand |
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by violence |
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who __ |
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cause the skin to putrefy |
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cut off people's hair |
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drink people's blood |
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fly |
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ride on horseback |
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ride in carriages |
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go on foot |
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"encounter resentment" |
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as __ (substance)-god |
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mountain |
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stone |
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earth |
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in the __ |
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seaside |
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sea |
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dams & bridges |
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canals & locks |
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way, and outside the way |
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of the __ tribesfolk |
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Hu-i (western) |
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C^>ian-li (northwestern) |
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__-sprite goblin-daemones |
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tree |
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insect |
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bird-or-beast |
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of locations |
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within the gate |
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outside the gate |
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within the door |
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outside the door |
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in the well |
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in the hearth |
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in stagnant ponds |
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in the toilet |
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of __ |
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fan-tao (sorcery) |
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p. 113 |
ku-tao (toxic envenomation) |
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those who fail to act deferentially as official servants and family members |
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who falsely claim rank and status not their own |
pp. 115-121 Book of Consecration
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numerics |
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p. 115 |
4 Great Kings |
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33 Gods |
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35 Dragon-Kings |
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28 Great Spirit-Generals |
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2 Spirit-Generals' mothers |
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3 Spirit-Generals' daughters |
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24 Daemon-Commanders |
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Mei-Kuei ("Goblin-Daemones") |
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Deep Sands |
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Floating Hill |
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51 others |
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additions to list of daemones in the Man.i-ratna: daemons __ |
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that died by overeating (praeceding those that died of hunger) |
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under eaves of house |
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of the 4 walls |
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of choking [specifically] on food |
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p. 116 |
of gold & silver |
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of the moment of sitting-down |
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colored daemones |
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striped |
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pink |
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purple |
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the 49 Kuei ("Daemons"), as distinct from Mei-Kuei |
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aethereal-soul interrogators |
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beaters of spermatic souls |
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who delight in strife |
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who speak loudly, laugh loudly, and play greatly |
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who grasp & pummel |
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who push & squeeze |
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who hide in ambush at the Gate of Life |
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who gobble people's vital essence |
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who drink people's blood |
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who butcher human flesh |
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who gnaw on human bones |
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who strike people's bones |
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who gobble people's 5 viscera |
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who eat people's entrails |
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who pluck forth people's sinews |
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who shrink people's veins |
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who destroy human foeti |
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who cause difficult births |
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who delight in anger |
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who delight in hatred |
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who go along holding swords |
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who go along holding sticks |
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who are crooked & bent |
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who go along gazing upward |
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who are split at the waist |
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who look backward |
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who go along craning their necks |
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[who have] broken-marrow |
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whose bodies have crumbled to dust |
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blocked & obstructed |
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with down-hanging heads |
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of 5 blows |
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who strike the heart [heart-attack] |
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of chills & shivers |
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of fevers & fainting |
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in sand |
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among cliffs & mounds |
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who march boldly along |
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who raise their arms |
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head-rubbing |
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white-headed |
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red-headed |
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yellow-headed |
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headless |
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fire-belching |
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who delight in scorching people |
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of "the radiance of blood" |
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the 49 S^an-c^in ("Mountain-Essences") [as summarized:] |
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many-colored |
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headless, or with a variety of animal-heads |
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in the form of serpents or of men & women |
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with 4 eyen or 49 eyen |
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crying or sighing or stumbling |
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fighting or spewing forth poisonous vapors in a wide spectrum of colors |
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the 98 Kuei [also as summarized:] |
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those responsible for tbe 5 wen ("pestilences") |
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those that have the 5 sorts of c^u ("infestation") in their care |
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p. 117 |
that died in falling out of bed |
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who delight in serving as district-magistrates |
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the 47 [more, further] Goblin-Daemones |
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"not only within the hearth but above it and on all four sides as well" |
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[instead of a Kuei] of the toilet |
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who lick people's heads |
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who dwell in the bed-curtains, the screen, the rafters, or within the chamber |
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who cause people to vomit |
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who gobble excrement |
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who cause homesickness (?) |
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who cause evil infections |
p. 116 on the "two distinct classes," interrogators of aethereal-souls and beaters of spermatic souls, according to the authoress (M.S.) "the activities of both groups presumably take place while the owner of the soul is asleep, during his dream-life".
p. 117 these daemones "number 60,0049 in all."
pp. 120-121 Secret Essentials for Treating Dhyana Ailments (of 5th century)
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Daemones in forms of animals etc. appearing to meditators "when they are practicing their meditation at a tranquil place" ["With visitors such as these, the meditator may go mad, flee from his hermitage, and run wildly about, quite out of control." (p. 121)] |
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"black or red rats that scratch at the meditator's heart or tickle his feet, hands, or ears; |
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may produce the cries of birds, the moaning ..., or subtle whisperings; ... |
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fox-phantoms, some of them taking the form of brides, richly appareled, who will stroke and caress the meditator's body and speak of things contrary to the Law. ... |
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p. 121 |
dogs, howling incessantly, ... |
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hawks and various kinds of birds, making all manner of noises, from whispers to great shouts. ... |
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small children, in ranks of hundreds and thousands -- or ... by tens or fives or ones, twos, or threes -- making various noises. ... |
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mosquitoes, flies, gnats, lice, or serpents that may enter his ears, humming like a queen bee, or go into his eyes ..." |
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the 63 "names" of Bhuti ("daemoness") having a face like a p>i-p>a (Chinese lute), 4 eyen, 2 mouths, its entire head shooting forth flames, beating itself under the armpits. ["This Bhuti is an evil yaks.i; she is also called the Demon of Dreams. When you see her in a dream and you have a loss of vital essence [semen] ..." |
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"in the wilds, it is called ... of the Wilds" |
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"between the bed and the coverlet, its name is ... Crawls on Its Belly" |
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[2 names which "resemble ... Deep Sands and Floating Hill"] |
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goblins & phantoms |
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pus-eaters & spittle-eaters |
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asses' ears & tiger-heads & kitten's meows |
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white rats & fox-phantoms |
pp. 144-149 Dharan.i Book of At.avaka (guardian-deity of Japanese imperial house, p. 144)
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p. 144 |
exorcism: tie up the patient, make as if to beat him |
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talisman, guaranteeing:- |
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freedom from bad dreams, |
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victory in battle, |
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enter water without drowning, enter fire without burning |
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the 8 spirit-sigils |
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p. 146 |
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"heart"-sigil (to be inked with bezoar, impressed on bamboo-membrane):- |
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doeth away with ailments, |
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eliminating obstacles, |
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moveth mountains, {cf. Gospel -- "faith ..."} |
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halteth watercourses, |
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extinguisheth fire, |
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draineth the sea {cf. Rev. of St. John -- "no more sea"} |
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p. 147 |
2nd |
ensureth complete command of the 8 divisions of the spirit-armies:- |
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to summon for interrogation the spirit-kings of the 4 quarters (directions) |
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a summons to the water-spirits |
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small, round "golden disk" sigil |
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4th |
large, square "lunar disk of the Asura-s" |
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p. 148 |
5th |
sigil of Hound & Leaping Snake (lion-resembling Hound of Heaven, above head of coiling dragon; in Japan, "Hound of Heaven" is long-nosed, winged denizen of mountains, noted for lechery, p. 148):- |
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subduing all poisonous drugs & all disease-causing daemones |
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sigil "of the solar -disk's samadhi-flames", viz. the 3-foot crow surrounded by flames (to be engraved in copper):- |
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"Whenever you wish to go somewhere, you simply point the seal in the desired direction ..." |
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p. 149 |
8th |
"sword"-sigil (depict with bezoar on square silk: gods bound by oath to serve):- |
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in order to __ |
call upon __ |
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beat daemones |
the Black King of Heaven |
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overcome all poisons & dragons |
the big-bellied Kumbha-an.d.a daemon |
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conquer the devils of the 4 quarters |
Caelestial Devil P>o-hsu:n |
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overcome tree-goblins |
the Vajra-sattva-s |
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conquer disease within the body |
Kun.d.ali |
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deal with robbers |
Sangha Man.i-bhadra |
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conquer mountain-gods |
Mucilinda |
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promoting life & seeking profit |
Caelestial King of Merit |
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to accompany thee at all times in all thy comings and goings |
the 14 Raks.asa-Kings |
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texts concerning wooden sigils, including of jujube-wood
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Treatise on the Five Sciences |
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Book of the Janguli Woman |
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Red Script of the Three Registers of Divinity |
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5. aloeswood |
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4. pith of jujube wood |
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in front of Janguli is "a boy dressed in blue" [= Azure Lad of the Eastern Sea] 1st sigil: carven "from a jujube tree that has been struck by lightning." |
5 wooden sigils (to be carven in "wood from a jujube tree that has been frightened by a dragon.") their effects are:- |
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3. red jujube wood |
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"supplanting the moon's light" |
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"levitation a hundred feet into the air" |
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[by "earth" sigil alone:] "walk on water and cross river and streams" |
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2. white sandalwood |
2nd sigil: carven "from white sandalwood" |
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the Janguli maiden is: green, a dragon-woman, with 7 heads, 4 arms, the serpentine adornments, and fire streaming from her body-pores:- |
{the authoress (M.S.) here (p. 319, n. 53) is inclined to bring into account the [Hina-yana] suggestion that a man "put his penis into the mouth of" this cobra[-goddess] rather than into her "vagina."} |
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throw bowlful of enchanted water on patient |
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1. peach-tree root |
p. 155 "In Tantric Buddhism, the finger-seal applied to the body of course imprints a "seed-syllable" (bija-mantra)"
pp. 158-159 Rites of the Vajra-sattva of Impure Traces for Exorcizing the Hundred Weirds
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drying up the sea |
copper dragon |
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causing rivers to reverse their courses |
elephant modelled in "parthian" incense, i.e., gum guggul |
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to stop poisonous dragons |
1st finger-sigil |
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"all the world's evil demons will flock to you in clouds and reveal their true forms" |
2nd finger-sigil |
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lay ban of quietude on mountain |
3rd finger-sigil |
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cause vajra to rise off the ground |
invoke Ucchus.ma "Leftovers" (of a meal) [= Maha-bala, p. 156] |
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obtain:- |
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Knowledge of the Heart |
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Spontaneous Knowledge |
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Knowledge of Former Lives |
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2nd |
"it will cause everyone to love you" |
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"you will be able to fly up into space and go anywhere you wish." |
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"it will enable you to travel 3 million leagues a day without anyone seeing you." |
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Michel Strickmann (ed. by Bernard Faure): Chinese Magical Medicine. Stanford U. Pr, 2002.