[INDOLOGY] Eating flesh of a jogi, a magician, a healer

[Dan Lusthaus]

For those looking beyond Indian sources for the motivations and themes of
religious cannibalism, you might have a look at Jan Kott's *Eating of the
Gods*. http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/eating-gods

Dan

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 25 April 2016 at 13:46, George Hart <glhart at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>
>> ​[...] ​
>> Rather, the purpose is to inoculate the killer against the spirit of the
>> dead person
>> ​[...]
>>
>
> ​Any hint of inoculation of course raises the interest of a medical
> historian :-)  But I am sure you were not speaking technically. ​
>
>
> ​This is a fork in the conversation, but there are passages in the
> ayuvedic literature where the authors worry about the issue of poisonous
> caterpillars, and how it is that the caterpillars don't poison themselves
> or their offspring.  It's a good question, I think.
>
> Best,
> Dominik
>
>
> --
> Professor Dominik Wujastyk* <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
> Department of History and Classics
> <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
> University of Alberta, Canada
>
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