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Subj: Re: On the lower shelves.
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 at 07:09:39 am EDT (Viewed 2 times)
Reply Subj: Re: On the lower shelves.
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 at 08:46:00 am EDT (Viewed 396 times)



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          Of course, Lo-Chi and her Shangri-La people were influencial on the Tibetan culture, which has always been different from and often inimical to the Chinese culture.

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          The cultures are frighteningly similar when you get into myths and stories, though.

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        I don't know enough about them to really comment, but I think there's probably a difference in the pre-Buddhist animalist stuff.



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    From what little I know, it's interesting to note that both the Chinese and Tibetans have ancient stories about demons who come from beneath the Earth's surface. Of course that may just have to do with the fact that both countries have lots of scary-looking caves, and earthquakes (the Japanese have similar stories, too).


There are traditions about demons from below the Earth in most cultures. Apart from many religions having an underworld of the dead below the Earth there are European dwarfs, snirfneblin, tappers, orcs, etc., South American inbunches, and so on.

But what I was really pulling this stuff from was the writings of early 20th century occultists that had a high regard of Eastern (and especially Tibetan) hidden wisdoms and who popularisied stories of underground or hidden cities with secret ascended masters, and of the curious 40s pulp fiction craze about twisted underground races described collectively as "the Shaver Mystery".