Daoist Music & Rituals
pp. 36-65 Michael Saso: "The Structure of Taoist Liturgy in Taiwan."
p. 45 the C^iao
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__ spirits |
food |
entertainment |
valuables |
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Heavenly official |
fruit |
classical music |
jewels |
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Earthly official |
chopped |
morality drama |
gold money |
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Underworld |
whole |
immoral drama |
silver money |
p. 46 themes in ritual
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level |
food |
motion |
benefit |
action on deities |
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heaven |
sweet |
upward |
blessing |
welcome |
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earth |
cooked |
[stationary] |
wealth |
feed |
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water |
raw |
downward |
longevity |
send away |
pp. 54-55 visualizations for the C^ai (C^iao)
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p. |
deities |
dressed in __ clothes |
direction |
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54 |
immortal youths |
to the left |
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jade ladies |
to the right |
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immortal mounted soldiers |
dark purple-red |
to the east gate of heaven |
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earthly immortal cavalry |
brown |
beside the gate of earth |
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flying immortal cavalry |
feathered garb |
heavenly gate's west |
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sun-palace cavalry |
red-purple |
the sun's gate |
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54-55 |
moon-palace cavalry |
yellow + directional color |
the 4 directions |
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p. |
likeness |
color of vapor / aura |
organ of location in body |
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55 |
7 petals |
pink |
lungs |
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waterlily about to open |
purple-red |
heart |
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5 leaves |
blue-purple |
liver |
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gold |
yellow |
spleen |
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2 shrubs |
black-purple |
kidneys |
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p. |
planet |
direction |
location at body |
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55 |
sui (Jupiter) |
east |
left arm |
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t>ai-po (Venus) |
west |
right arm |
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yin-huo (Mars) |
south |
forehead |
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c^>en (Mercury) |
north |
between knees |
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c^en (Saturn) |
centre |
before heart |
"The ... realized breath passes up through the backbone ... to the top of the head ..., and becomes a bright circular light ... (making one able to see the inner and outer ...)." {cf. circular halo around heads of Christian saints}
Pen-Yeh Tsao & Daniel P. L. Law (eds.): Studies of Taoist Music and Rituals of Today. Chinese U. of Hong Kong, 1989.