The TIP Records album Mystery of the Yeti 2 has a song by Hallucinogen called "the Herb Garden" in which there is a sample attributed to psychedelic researcher Christian Raetsch and transcribed by fUSION Anomaly:
"you have heard of the yeti? the ubanamanamanala 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'll find the Yeti easily..."
"uhm, the Banjhakri uhm, the (...) man or the, the (...) shaman, the forest shaman, he wears a skin of, uhm... d-d-d-deer (jibberish) the symbol of this mushroom!"
"the yeti loves to drink shnaps too, so he's like a real shaman... he, uhm, uh, if you want to contact him, you have to put some alcoholic offerings in front of the forest."
"he has one dreadlock, that's in honour of Shiva... i ask 'then why don't you have dreadlocks all over?' he said 'because, you know i'm, uh... pupupupu ap tepepep un nenenenn umndibdibdib dsedsedse de ann ktsingngngng to have dreadlocks all over'"
So this got me curious. I did a Google search, but didn't come up with much promising material. According to this source: "Ban Jhakri is also the Nepali word for the smallest type
of yeti, so it appears that yetis do exist, at least in the spirit world" and I found a site selling back issues of a transpersonal psychology journal with an article about "The 'calling' the yeti, and the banjhakri (‘forest shaman’ in Nepalese shamanism." The other pages I could find were in other languages and couldn’t be translated. Also, I found that the term “Ban Jhakri” is often used to simply mean “shaman.” I’m just wondering if anyone out there has any information that might clear this up, or suggest some further reading on the yeti/shamanism connection. |
