THE HUNGRY GHOSTS – GLI SPIRITI AFFAMATI
Posted by KATYA at 07:31, 30 Oct 2005SEGAKI
Segaki is a traditional Japanese ceremony of the “Hungry Ghosts".
The belivers, guided by the abbot, calls the “Hungry Ghosts” in the meditation room, or out home in the night without lights, by invocations and deafening noises to offer to the spirits: fruit and Sutra, performed by the monk turned to East for the peace of the souls in torment. The ritual is closed with the aspersion of purified water in the air to exoricize the presence of the spirits.
The “Gaki” are skelton-like, with swollen abdomen and the neck so thin that prevent to quench the hungry and the thirst that oppresses them. They crawls in the mud with inarticulate movements, like their laments, thier food are excrements and goes into the dead bodies to consume from their inside. The Gaki lives in dark ruins places, or near the abandoned graves.
This ceremony is not enough to appease this spirits that imposes to be acknowledged and listened, by disaster, provoking a vicious circle so that every new dead can be a new “Goryō”* that asks revenge and explanation about its dead.
* Goryō: vindictive dead that have left suspended issues feeding hate so that they don’t find peace and are not capable, or don’t wants, cross the Hell’s door. The Goryō can be also victims of a unforeseen or violent dead.
HUGSHUGS
Katya
SEGAKI
Segaki è la cerimonia Giapponese degli “Spiriti Affamati”.
I fedeli, condotti dall’abate, attirano gli spiriti affamati nella sala di meditazione, o fuori casa di notte senza luci, attraverso invocazioni ed assordanti rumori per offrire agli spiriti: frutta e Sutra, recitati da un monaco rivolto verso est per la pace delle anime in pena. La cerimonia si conclude con l'aspersione dell'aria con acqua purificata al fine di scongiurare la presenza degli spiriti.
I “Gaki” sono scheletrici, col ventre gonfio ed il collo così sottile da impedire loro di placare la fame e sete che li perseguitano. Strisciano nel fango con movimenti disarticolati, come lo sono anche i loro lamenti, si nutrono di escrementi ed entrano nei cadaveri per consumarli dal loro interno. Dimorano in luoghi bui, in rovina, o accanto a tombe abbandonate.
Questo rito, non è sufficiente a placare tali esseri che impongono di essere riconosciuti ed ascoltati, attraverso catastrofi, provocando un circolo vizioso dove ogni nuovo morto è potenzialmente un nuovo “Goryō”* che chiede vendetta e spiegazioni per la sua morte.
* Goryō: morti vendicativi che hanno lasciato questioni in sospeso nutrendo odio così che non trovano pace e non riescono, o non vogliono, varcare le porte degli inferi. Possono anche essere stati vittime di una morte inaspettata o violenta.
HUGSHUGS
Katya
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2 March 2005
5 years 32 weeks
Katya
The spirits of the dead must be honored and helped to find peace! It isn't always easy!
What do you think?
kennc
10 August 2005
15 weeks 5 days
Yes it is not easy.
I have had a strange experience some years ago.
For some days I was guest of a my friend that lived in rent in a popolar apartment here in Italy.
A night I was roused by a bad dream, a true nightmare!
My friend sad that since he decided to abandon that hause, even if he went out for few hours, happened strange things, almost the house don't want to be left.
So I asked to my friend who lived in that hause before him.
We found that the man who lived before my friend in that hause, was abandoned from his pal and for this reason he decided to suicide himself. It was a good thing to give flowers to his grave, but we don't found the name of so unlucky man.
Who knows if our interest for his story have quiet his soul.
CIAO DA KATYA
2 March 2005
5 years 32 weeks
Katya
Often patience is required. Through actions and dreams the spirit will help you to understand what to do!
kennc
10 August 2005
15 weeks 5 days
SALVE KENNC!
What you say is true: I belive that Dreams are the best Masters.
In that particular experience I was touched by the strength of that soul that seemed to howl about its story and its loneliness, maybe it profited of the my stubbrnness to understand and to know what there is behind that typology of dreams.
HUGS and AT THE NEXT TIME
Katya
1 May 2004
5 years 15 weeks
The ancient Japanese conceptualization of the condition of the dead in the afterlife, as described above ("The “Gaki” are skelton-like, with swollen abdomen and the neck so thin that prevent to quench the hungry and the thirst that oppresses them. They crawl in the mud with inarticulate movements, like their laments, thier food are excrements and goes into the dead bodies to consume from their inside. The Gaki lives in dark ruins places, or near the abandoned graves"), is remarkably similar to how the peoples of the ancient Middle East viewed the dead as well. There have even been a number of modern reports of Near-Death Experiences where people have come back describing the same sort of scenario. I have spent the last 18 years studying these sort of connections, and my work can be reviewed at the website below.
- Peter Novak
How divided are you already?
Find out at http://www.divisiontheory.com
10 August 2005
15 weeks 5 days
Thanks for the link!
I will keep it, so I can visit it in the next days.
HUGSHUGS
Katya
1 March 2005
4 years 22 weeks
as a hindu i have grown up with many practices that relate to appeasing the spirits of the dead also. We believe that the spirit has a journey to make and our actions can help contribute to easing the journey, appart from this there are annual prays which must be carried out in which the favourite foods are prepeared and offered to the departed spirits.There are many other practices which we have other than these which pertain to the dead proberly i will find time one day to write all of them.