The Kyrgyz Bakshi

[Terrance]

David Morris wrote:
> 
> Boy was this ever a "tourist's" point of view!  Reminds me of Pynchon's
> letter to Hirsch about the attitude of the colonist.

Wha? 

The Shaman, like the RC Priest, performs extreme unction, a
sacrament performed in both the Novel V. and in  Farina's
BDSL. The Shaman Healer has the medicine, the oil, the
ritual of purification and rebirth. And where pray does he
get it from. Why as it was in the beginning, is now and ever
shall be, by RETURN to the time of origins. So the the
Shaman of the Na-khi, the Tibeto-Burmese people living in
Southwest China (Yun nan Province) recites the myth of
creation, so the RC priest's solemn meditations and
recitations are of the beginning, the creation myth, it's
the muse, thou from the first wast present and sitting on a
vast abyss madst it pregnant...In the beginning, at the time
when the heavens, sun , moon, stars, planets, land (but
water is always and forever present!)  had not yet appeared
and so on... and this is followed by the appearance of the
snake or dragon or satan, at that time there came forth the
Nagas and dragons...condemnation of satan, do you  renounce
satan and all his deeds and so on or the snake or sea
monster or the bearer of maladies, pestilence, sickness,
iniquity, sin, DEATH, and then the appearance of the first
shaman, the first healer...the point is that the medicines,
the cure, the remedy used is always incorporated into the
cosmogonic myth and the origin must be rehearsed in the sick
person's presence.