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Outward Spirals

Outward Spirals

Walters, Holly

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral ReferenceAnthropology

Publisher Price: $60.00

ISBN10: 1959350501
ISBN13: 9781959350507
Publisher: Three Little Sisters
Published: Oct 11 2024
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.66
Height: 0.88 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

For more than two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil ammonites, called Shaligrams, has been an integral part of ritual practice throughout South Asia. Originating from a single remote region of Himalayan Nepal, in the Kali Gandaki River Valley of Mustang, ritual use of these stones today has become a significant aspect of pilgrimage and worship in both India and Nepal, and among the global Hindu and Buddhist Diasporas. Considered inherently sacred not only because they are not man-made but because the workings of the landscape have imbued them with a living essence and agency of their own, Shaligrams require no rites of invocation when brought into homes or temples as presiding deities. But Shaligram interpretive traditions also use the specific characteristics of each ammonite fossil to determine which gods and spirits have become physically manifest within the stone. This book therefore details the process of reading deities within these sacred fossils and offers a general guide to identifying each of the 90+ name-types of Shaligrams, along with their defining features and concise histories.

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