He is popularly known as "sultan-e-Qawwali", meaning "The King of Kings of Qawwali".Born in Faisalabad, Khan had his first public performance at the age of 16, at his father's chelum. He became the head of the family qawwali party in 1971. He was signed by Oriental Star Agencies, ...
Compared to the Brahmanic rituals of later eras this fire-ritual was a very simple affair which has more in common with shamanic practices than the elaborate structures of organized religion. There are three main gods invoked in the Rigveda: Agni (god of fire), Soma (moon-god and personifi...
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Why, the Pope is the ruler of the world. All the emperors, all the kings, all the princes, all the presidents of the world are as these altar boys of mine. The Pope is the ruler of the world.” -Father D. S. Phelan, "The Western Watchman," June 27, 1912 Sowho really controls...
During the Hindu festival of Navarārtri or ‘Nine Nights’ it is still a common practice to select young girls to embody the goddess askumārīs for the course of the festival. There are also major centers of Kumārī practice at the Indian temples of Kāmākhya, Assam; Kanyakumari, Tamil Na...
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Drawing on both ethnographic and literary sources, this paper indicates that initiations into the mantra of Bālā are essential rites of passage for various Tantric communities. We focus on two previously unstudied texts: Bālāviṃśati stotra (“Twenty Verses on the Bālā Goddess”), a popu...
mat.ham (was used by the Ca¯kya¯rs, a caste of storytellers and bards who were often invited to temple festivals to recite the ancient leg- ends.41 After the time of prosperity, the Ca¯kya¯rs' property was bought by Tamil Brahmins, who turned it into a library and a ...