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Frog in a Well - The China History Group Blog
Persian and Arab Muslim intermarriage in Ming era Quanzhou
The China Beat: Divine Justice
in modern, high-tech nations like Taiwan, where people rely on such rites to deal with problems that are not readily addressed in the courtroom (particularly family tensions)
Bruce Humes » Blog Archive » Chinese Muslim’s Pilgrimage to al-Andalus
Zhang Cheng-Zhi discovers the links between the Moors and China, from the Uighurs in Xinjiang to the port of Quanzhou in Fujian
The China Beat: Painted Skin: To Scare or Not to Scare?
The Chinese demon is not a figure of existential enigma or radical evil nor does not radically call into question our humanity or fundamental cosmic justice.
The China Beat: Magic Lanterns
the Taiwan Lantern Festival is both a major celebration and big business
The China Beat: Incense Power, Incense Peace
Taiwan temple feuds and politics
Manichaeanism - the Iranian Religion of Light Emerges From the Shadows - CAIS Archaeological & Cultural News of Iran©
"A Buddhist monk moved into the area, took over the Manichaean temple, said 'this is a Buddhist temple', looked at the statue of Mani and said 'this is a statue of Buddha' and preached a completely new religion, which was a great success.
Spirit-writing and the development of Chinese cults | Sociology of Religion | Find Articles at BNET
Fuji apparently evolved from an earlier form of divination, operated by rural women, in which a female spirit possessed an object held by the women, causing it to jump and dance, but the practice was eventually taken up by educated persons and developed into the writing of messages from illustrious persons and deified culture heroes, who composed poems, moral homilies, and answers to questions about the future
Great Star of the Literary God, Chief Star, Taijiquan Sword: Myths, Symbolism, Legends
Mythological characters with similar backgrounds or with similar service functions for humans are often blended together. Some say that an ugly scholar named Chung K'uei who met a tragic demise was later venerated and given the the honorific title of 'Wen Chang.' Wen Chang and Kui Xing are sometimes spoken of as if they are a single entity. Sometimes, Zhong Kui is spoken of as a deity helping scholars taking examinations.
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Zhong Kui: In one fist is the hilt of his sword, in the other is his pen. Here you see a very violent writer.
Chapter Twelve: Myth, History, Cultural Values, Social Tensions
to understand some basic, enduring Chinese cultural values and tensions through a reading of myth and legend.
The Believer - Interview with David Simon
But instead of the old gods, The Wire is a Greek tragedy in which the postmodern institutions are the Olympian forces. It’s the police department, or the drug economy, or the political structures, or the school administration, or the macroeconomic forces that are throwing the lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no decent reason.
Reason Magazine - The Paranoid Style Is American Politics
"they inhabit a cosmos of endless invisible war, in which wizards are engaged in fending off the attacks of insane, predatory gods and all deaths are caused by spiritual murder and have to be avenged by the magical massacre of whole (distant, unknown) communities." Malkin, or Piaroa Indians?
Daoist Alchemy in the West: The Esoteric Paradigms
An exhaustive survey of Daoism's historical relationship to Western esoterics such as Kircher, Leibniz, Samuel Johnson, Heidegger, Jung and Aleister Crowley
Planchette writing (Fuji)
Planchette writing is also called fuluan or jiangbi. Its operation requires one or two persons to hold a rack and reveal words or pictures on a prepared sand plate, and then give explanations. It is practised in the composition of Daoist scriptures and i
Pronea | Jonathan Hickman
Pax Romana - Comic about the Catholic Church traveling back in time to alter history and create a theocracy. Someone should make a similar comic about the CCP.
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