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  title info:
    title: Ayu Lha-mo- the oracle of Sabu, filming June 1986
  name:
    name part: Machin, Barrie
    role:
      role term: producer.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentaries and Factual Films
  genre: documentary film.
  genre: Documentary films
  genre: Ethnographic films
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Ethnographic films.
  genre: Documentaires.
  genre: Films ethnographiques.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: at
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (55 minutes)
  abstract: "Possessed" Himalayan Oracles Said to Suck Disease From Patients, National Geographic News, May 22, 2004, by Zoltan Istvan Ayu Lha-mo. This oracle is probably the most famous oracle in Ladahk. She's known for taking a knife from a fire and burning her tongue with its tip to show patients her powers and invulnerability," said Frank Kressing, a cultural anthropologist at University of Augsburg in Germany. Kressing has interviewed more than 20 oracles in Ladakh. The rituals of Ladahk oracles are little known to the outside world, even though as many as 200 may practice in the region. The rites and rituals likely derived from the cultures of animistic tribes and shamans of Central Asia, China, Tibet, and Mongolia. These days most oracles are Tibetan Buddhists, one of the primary religions in Ladahk. Oracles usually meet patients in their houses, bringing them to an altar in the kitchen. Generally, the oracle works with several patients simultaneously and talks with each about their ailments before going into a trance. It is said to take about 15 minutes of chanting, ringing bells, praying, and beating drums for a spirit to enter an oracle's body. Oracles usually invite spirits to take them over, but some oracles report that they become possessed when they don't want to. Spirits that possess oracles during trance states are usually said to be from the pantheon of Buddhist deities. But sometimes lesser known or unknown spirits, even those from other religions, can control the oracles, they say. "Once possessed, oracles perform therapy by sucking out disease-causing substances from their patients," Kressing said. "The oracles later show these substances - usually black mucus or little tar-like pieces - to the patient and audience, and then spit them into a bowl or on the ground." Oracles also use straws or pipes for sucking out substances from patients, placing them directly against ailing body parts--for example, the chest of a patient suffering from asthma. Seeds, cups o…
  target audience: adult
  note: [producer, Barrie Machin].
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed December 13, 2019).
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: Oracles
  subject:
    topic: Mysteries, Religious
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Rites and ceremonies
    geographic: India
  subject:
    geographic: India
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Oracles
  subject:
    topic: Mystères religieux
    geographic: Inde
  subject:
    topic: Rites et cérémonies
    geographic: Inde
  subject:
    geographic: Inde
    topic: Mœurs et coutumes
  subject:
    topic: Manners and customs
  subject:
    topic: Mysteries, Religious
  subject:
    topic: Oracles
  subject:
    topic: Rites and ceremonies
  subject:
    geographic: India
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    title info:
      title: Academic Video Online
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  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 191213
    record change date: 20241201233358.0
    record identifier: in00005590844
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng