Identifier: inforbiddenlanda03land (find matches)
Title: In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Landor, Arnold Henry Savage. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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THE GOAT, WITH SOUL OF DECEASED, BEING FED to be barely noticeable, and at others so rapid that hisarms and legs can no longer be distinguished. I hap-pened to witness no less than six funerals simultaneouslyin Garbyang, and a collective war-dance of as many asthree hundred men. It went on during a whole day andthe greater part of the following night, torches and a bigbonfire burning in order to light up the scene. Eventually, amid firing of guns, howls, yells, and deaf-ening hissing of the assembled crowd, the animal to be 119 IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND sacrificed is dragged before the lay-figure. Long coloredribbons are tied round its horns, and the ends left hang-ing by the side of its head. Sandal-wood is burned underthe beasts nostrils, which is supposed to induce the soulof the departed to enter and establish itself in the animal.The clothes, the turban, the shield, the jewelry, are torn
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GOAT, WITH SOUL AND CLOTHES OF DECEASED from the figures back and piled on to the goat, which isnow the impersonation of the deceased. It is fed until itcan hold no more, wine and liquor being poured down itsthroat, and large dishes of all possible delicacies beingplaced before it. The women relatives devote to it theirtenderest affection, and shed tears over it in the con-viction that it holds the spirit of their lost protector.Stuffed with food and stupefied by the alcohol, the beastsubmits, emotionless and immovable, to the wild caresses, 120

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