The Herb Garden
Hallucinogen * Track #2 On The Mystery of the Yeti, Part 2
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The spoken samples in this track all come from Psychoactivity: The Fountain of Culture, a lecture delivered by German anthropologist Christian Rätsch on 2 October 1998 for the Psychoactivity Conference at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam.
The material about Banjhakri begins about 19 minute...
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[faint sound of singing]
[children laughing]
[faint sound of singing]
[Sample of Psychoactivity: The Fountain of Culture: Christian Rätsch]
You have heard of the Yeti? The Abominable Snowman. That is, of course, not an animal or a prehuman being: that is originally one of the shamans' gods. The real name is Banjhakri; that means the shaman of the forest. So, therefore, nobody will ever find the Yeti in nature, because you have to go in trance, and then you can find the Yeti easily
The Banjhakri—the wild man or the wild shaman, the forest shaman—he wears a skin of deer [electronic stuttering], and that is supposedly a symbol of this mushroom.
The Yeti loves to drink Schnaps, too, so he's like a real shaman, and he—. If you want to contact him, you have to put some alcoholic offerings in front of the forest
[Break]
[sounds of gasping]
[sounds of an animal growling and snorting]
[Break]
[Sample of Psychoactivity: The Fountain of Culture: Christian Rätsch]
He has one dreadlock; that's in honour of Shiva. I asked him, "Why don't you have dreadlocks all over?" He said, "Because, you know, I'm a … [electronic stuttering] … to have dreadlocks all over."
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