Tag: abode

  • Abode for the Spirit

    Abode for the Spirit

    Many of our modern ghost stories once served to illustrate things they believed about life. If you got ill, it was because an ancestor was upset or because they withdrew from your disrespect, and an evil non human spirit was permitted to enter you. The idea of the body as an object, but also as…

  • Abode of Spirits

    Abode of Spirits

    The Chinese New Years celebration, their own version of the day of the dead ritual, has its origin in Bon. The new year for Bon is the same as the Chinese New Year, and their lunar calendar arose from it. The people of the lowlands were more fractured, while the tribes of the Tibetan mountain…