The work describes an archaic ritual of the Bon, Tibet’s ancient religion, that involves undertaking a ritual pilgrimage through wild places inhabited by mountain deities, water genii, ferocious demons and dangerous ghosts to celebrate the meditative sacrifice of one’s own body which is offered to invisible beings as spiritual nourishment during a singular ritual banquet. Presenting texts and illustrating the work with photographs, Dr. Martino ...
Lost among the high hills of eastern Nepal, which has meant centuries of cultural isolation, the Kulunge Rai ethnic group have tenaciously ever since their ancient origins. Bearing witness to a far-off past of hunting and nomadic life, their myths and legends form a plot and scenario that comprise a multitude of invisible entities: the "hunter-spirits" and the “"onkey spirits", the undisputed sovereigns of the forest world: Laladum, the ...
