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Mircea Eliade - The Birhor, Munda, and Oraon of Northern India
Identifier
010959
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Mircea Eliade – Shamanism Archaic techniques of ecstasy
The demonic asuric nature of metallurgy is well brought out in the myths of the aboriginal peoples of India (Birhor, Munda, Oraon) where emphasis is laid on the pride of the smith and his final defeat by the Supreme Being, who succeeds in burning him in his own forge