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Malhas took Tosha to the mountains to show him an ancient Georgian rite, practiced to heal madness by singing.
They arrived in a lost village, where some old men still knew how to perform the ritual.
All gathered at dawn and brought the patient to a parade through which a mountain stream ran.
The old men, dressed in their traditional clothes, put themselves in a circle. The patient was placed in the center.
After a prayer, they took each other by the hand and solemnly intoned a seven-voice cannon, with stretched notes.
The sounds of the song, echoing on the walls of the parade, created a unique echo of its kind.
This mixture of voice and echo gave the impression that the mountain was singing with men.
The patient began to tremble and scream in a voice that was not his.
Then he collapsed on the ground and started running quickly on all fours, trying to get out of the circle.
"Malhas emmena Tosha dans les montagnes pour lui montrer un ancien rite géorgien, pratiqué pour guérir la folie par le chant.
Ils arrivèrent dans un village perdu, où quelques vieillards savaient encore comment accomplir le rituel.
Tous se réunirent à l'aube et l'on amena le malade jusqu'à un défilé où courait un ruisseau de montagne.
Les vieillards, vêtus de leurs habits traditionnels, se mirent en cercle. Le malade fut placé au centre.
Après une prière, ils se prirent par la main et entonnèrent solennellement un canon à sept voix, aux notes étirées.
Les sons du chant, en se répercutant sur les parois du défilé, créaient un écho unique en son genre.
Ce mélange de voix et d'écho donnait l'impression que la montagne chantait avec les hommes.
Le malade se mit à trembler et à hurler d'une voix qui n'était pas la sienne.
Puis il s'écroula par terre et se mit à courir rapidement à quatre pattes, en essayant de sortir du cercle.
Ses yeux étaient révulsés et il avait de l'écume aux lèvres.
Imperturbables, les vieillards continuaient à chanter, se tenant fermement par les mains et empêchant le dément de sortir du cercle.
Enfin, le malade se tut et resta étendu, immobile.
Le chant s'arrêta, on roula le malheureux dans une couverture et on l'emporta au village, où il dormit trois jours.
Après quoi il se réveilla, parfaitement guéri."
This reminds me about the shamans who would spend 3 days in limbo fighting demons:
(taken from the Waves chapter 28)
… a Yakut shaman, Sofron Zateyev, states that as a rule [during this visionary initiation] the future shaman “dies” and lies in the yurt for three days without eating or drinking. … Pyotr Ivanov, gives further details. The candidate’s limbs are removed and disjointed with an iron hook; the bones are cleaned, the flesh scraped, the body fluids thrown away, and the eyes torn from their sockets. After this operation all the bones are gathered up and fastened together with iron.
According to a third shaman, Timofei Romanov, the visionary dismemberment lasts from three to seven days; during all that time the candidate remains like a dead man, scarcely breathing, in a solitary place. [emphasis added] (Eliade 2004, 36)
I beg your pardon, I did post without even noticing that I was writing in French, and I could not edit my post after
That was to say that the main caracteristic of gregorian music is to be made of only a single voice, or a unison if it's a choir. So, you cannot have 7 different voices in such a music.
The other subject was about the 57% of ashkenaze jews being psychopaths. I once rode an article about circoncision saying that this was able to provoque empathy troubles later. It would be interresting to validate this information to appreciate the level of psychopaths in all the societies which practis circonsision including all jews, muslims and american protestants.
In Healing Developmental Trauma, it is explained how a trauma that happened between 0-2 years old is putting your nervous system in 'freeze' state. For exemples: Circoncision, caesarean section, mother experiencing death while pregnant, tough birth,etc. The Trauma gets stucked in the nervous system. The external world becomes a menace and connection with other people is systematically avoided. It's not that they don't care or don't feel empathy it's because the connection with people is perceived as a menace by the nervous system. In this case it is called a Survival Connection Type. This is just a very quick summary and there is a lot of details left out.
I very HIGHLY suggest the reading of this book it is gold.
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