From: DO9EA00@sysa.computing-services.manchester-metropolitan-university.ac.uk
Date: Mon 21 Jun 1993 - 11:28:23 EEST
From: David Ingram (DO9EA00)
Some Musings on Daka Fal:
For your edification I present some Ideas conserning Daka Fal; in respect of two Characters, first Henya ( a daka fal/shaman from a barabraian tribe in Balazar) and second Duke Raus:
Henya: His mind heavy with the questions that Cora (the cheif) had asked him,
henya lit the fire of scented wood and began to inhale the smoke and chew
the leaves he had gathered that morning.... Soon the trance came to him, in
the background he could hear the insecent beat of drumms and the rithamic
shouts of the tribesmen as the engaged in the sacred dances. He cleared his
mind and began to think only of the questions and then slowly recited the
sacred words of dakafal -- the spell complete the ancestors came flooding
towards him; their incesent babble deffening out the music, picking the
ghost he required he summoned it towards him and a moment later the spirit
took possesion of his body....
Hours later his body covered with a cold sweatr he came around, lying on
a bed of straw, in his hut - immediately he took the animal skin and
paint that had been leaft at his side and began to draw the answer to the
Cheif's questions...
Duke Raus: His mind heavy with the question of how to deal with the matter of the homesteaders complaints, the duke retreated into his private family shrine. hear in the coolness surrounded by the marker stones of his family, he took forth the scroll from the family altar and began to read this ancient history, what wisdom had his ancestors to give him in this matter soon he had a name Agricola had been in an almost identical situation; he lit the incence offering and summoned the priest. After a breif ritual of deviotion to Daka Fal, the priest summoned forth the shade of the ancestor and the duke began his conversations.... His questions answered the duke burnt the offering of food and spilled the finest wine over the altar to apeaze his ancestral spirits. He stood and returned to the audience hall....
As I see it both worship Daka Fal and call upon their ancestors but one will be clearly seen as a shaman (cf Ammerican Indians etc) but the other will be closer to the ancestor worship common in Shinto and other easten religions.
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