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Archive for August 2020

  1. On the dakṣiṇācāra and the vāmācāra – IV

    In the previous post in this series I took a quick look at the earliest form of the non-Saiddhāntika or vāmācāra traditions of the tantras – the Caturbhaginī or “Four Sisters” system. For this post I shall briefly examine two more early vāmācāra streams, the Mantrapīṭha and the Vidyāpīṭha. Continue reading »

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    August 31st 2020

    Posted by in History, tantra

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  2. 21 Years On, Revisiting Ellwood’s The Politics of Myth

    I don’t mention this often, but technically my PhD is in Folklore AND Mythology. I don’t like to call attention to it because I feel like it makes a fluffy sounding degree sound even fluffier, and frankly, I am a shitty mythologist. Continue reading »

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    August 13th 2020

    Posted by in History, Occult

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