Spiriti e riti ebraici a Meknes. Seduti alla “tavola di David” by Silvia Bruni

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Embodying the Spirit (<i>meyppāṭu</i>): A <i>puttiṇai</i> Perspective by Nirmal Selvamony

“…I explain the early Tamil idea of <i>meyppāṭu</i> as a kind of action, which consists of embodying the spirit, and show how it manifests itself in ordinary emotional experience, in love at first sight, in emoting in theatre, and in spirit possession. The analytical tool I employ is the concept of <i>mūviṭam</i>, or the personaic triad, the central concept in the theory called <i>puttiṇai</i>. …”
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