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 entheogen 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. I also found that the term “Ban Jhakri” is often used to simply mean shaman. Someone on Barbelith says that the Yeti guarded Shangri La- but he’s a tabloid writer so I’m skeptical. 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.
8 responses so far ↓
1 Daniel Lamblin // Jan 12, 2004 at 9:53 am
It might be hard to find because its audio.
Secondly Christian Raetsch is also spelled:
Dr. Christian R?tsch
[BTW google says he: Supports “Shiva In Exile”
Ambient music with drums from Nepal]
but hey, an english version of his [et all.] book on nepalese shamanism: http://www.parkstpress.com/titles/shtahi.html
BTW I’m listening to that song on loop right now, and found your post when googling for more about yeti shamanism. My sources say the song is done by the same person who is shpongle.
2 Klintron // Jan 12, 2004 at 9:44 pm
Thanks Daniel. Yes, Hallucinogen is Simon Posford, who is half of Shpongle along with Raja Ram.
Do you have any other sources on Yeti Shamanism?
3 Matt // Jan 23, 2004 at 5:48 pm
I just thought that you might be interested to know that the Bible calls certain spirits hairy one’s when looking into the Hebrew language . If a Nepalese shaman saw one of these in the spirit realm would he call it a yeti. The Bible references are Leviticus 17:7, 2 Chronicles 11:15, Isaiah 13:21, and Isaiah 34:14. The Bible also warns us not to make contact with the spirit world Deuteronomy 18:9-14.
God Bless,
Pastor Matt
4 Liam // Jul 25, 2005 at 4:00 am
I believe that there is more on the Yeti and the Mystery of the Thirteen Crystal Skulls. And if i dedicated my life in searching for them.. or the answers to them.. and did not find anything; it would not be a wasted life. Even believing that there is something so much more powerful in this realm, which is so physical, so believable is inspiring. Keep tripping. Liam..
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7 Terrence // Sep 19, 2007 at 11:41 am
funny…that particular song made me do a google search too, which brought me here :D
I will do further investigation into this subject and will post my progress in this topic.
8 TrippinNuts // Jan 8, 2008 at 7:59 pm
:) well what i think is that we should all: try going to the forest and laying and offering then trip for a while. If it doesnt work then you should just give up. Or go to nepal and do it there! I
PS:thats an awsome song. Thats is what also brought me here
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