Anxious Encounters with the (Monstrous) Other: The Yakshi Tales of Medieval Kerala
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...”(Arumugam, 2019, p.74). While Arumugam uses the term to investigate the ways in which the sacred and the monstrous “intertwine with and feed into each other,” I would like to use this term to indicate deities of an older order which appear in the epics and the folktales, which refuse categorisation and in some ways, stand in opposition with the existing religious order. Robert DeCaroli (2004) calls such varied beings as Yakshas/Yakshis and Nagas as spirit-deities “because these deities hold a liminal position between the realms of ghosts (preta, bhūta) and the gods (deva) and frequently seem to share the nature of both”(DeCaroli, p....
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...(Felton, 2019, p. 64-65)....
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...(Felton, 2019, p.68) Stories about monstrous encounters on the roads started circulating during times that saw the expansion of road networks between previously isolated city-states in ancient Greece and all over the Roman Empire....
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...There are ancient Greek stories about lamias, “a half-woman, half-serpent shape-shifting monster,” who feeds on babies and the flesh and blood of young men (Felton, 2019, pp. 64-65)....
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...(Jordan, 2012, p.202) D.D. Kosambi argues that in order to preach their religion that insisted upon the cessation of blood-sacrifices, Buddhist monks must have frequented these mother goddess cult-spots where sacrifices were most made....
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...(Jordan, 2012, p. 202) In course of time, some of these tracts developed into trade routes, and traders, before starting a journey, made animal sacrifices to the deities at the crossroads promising more if their journey helped them in reaping profit....
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