By Paul Mus, David Porter Chandler, Ian William Mabbett
ISBN-10: 1876924756
ISBN-13: 9781876924751
Paul Mus (1902--69), a historian of faith in India and historical Southeast Asia, has had profound impact on generations of students. India visible from the east attracts upon his fieldwork one of the Cham humans of Vietnam.
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The true divinity of the Brāhmaṇas is the sacrifice itself. Indeed, in them ritual order and exactitude (ṛta) are assimilated symbolically to order and exactitude in the universe. Ṛta is the proper scansion of formulae and the precision of the priest’s movements; but it is also, in the world at large, the regularity of the seasons, the right amount of rain, and the periodic recurrence of astronomical phenomena, days, phases of the moon, etc. Thus the sacrifice is a magical operation: in bringing ṛta into being in their sacrifice, the priests at the same time produce it or reinforce it in the world.
The victim is not served to the god, for he is no cannibal. The victim merely provides for the divinity, for the duration of the ceremony, a INDIA SEEN FROM THE EAST 27 personal vehicle. In it, the impalpable assumes a body and becomes accessible. Chinese lords prepare to pronounce the oath of allegiance before the tumulus of a god of the soil, guardian of the pledged word. A victim is sacrificed: it is a man, or an animal is substituted. The text of the oath is read aloud and the participants give their word.
In view of these facts, can we doubt the part played by a chthonic element at the origin of these systems? I have claimed that the delegate of the group, normally its chief, is identified with the god, at least for the duration of the ceremony. The definition of the local divinity, then, as ‘the expression of the energies of the earth’ is common to the god and the chief. The latter is the medium of the divinity. In him, by delegation, resides the power which assures the fertility of animals and plants, and in general the good fortune of the group.
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