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  The Ancestral Forest

  Anthropos, All

  Memory, Space and Ritual among the Kulunge Rāi of Eastern Nepal

  Settled among the high hills of eastern Nepal, which has meant centuries of cultural isolation, the Kulunge Rāi ethnic group have tenaciously maintained their religious tradition ever since their ancient origins.

  Bearing witness to a far-off past of hunting and nomadic life, their myths and legends form a plot and scenario that comprise a multitude of invisible entities: the “hunter-spirits” and the “monkey spirits”, the undisputed sovereigns of the forest world; Laladum, the deity who resembles a little girl, the initiator of young shamans from the villages of the area; the Nagi, or ophidiomorphic-spirits, dwelling in the waters, the totem ancestors of the Kulunge Rāi group; Molu, a mythical forefather, lost in the woods and transformed into a deity.

   

  Martino Nicoletti, The Ancestral Forest, Le loup des steppes, 2015

   

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  The Ecstatic Body

  Anthropos, All

  Notes on Shamanism and Corporeity in Nepal.

  “…The shaman who entertains the gods by dancing and music, is the same man who entertains the audience through the more performative aspects of the séance. Here, it is ordinary people who exploit the situation, coming to attend a performance that, in primis, has been organised for the gods.
  A singular performance, to which, besides the chance of direct witness of the epiphany of gods, spirits and demons, is added the no less stimulating possibility of witnessing human destinies suspended over an uncertain fate…”

   

  Martino Nicoletti, The Ecstatic Body, Le loup des steppes, 2015

   

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  The Nomadic Sacrifice

  Anthropos, All

  The Chöd Pilgrimage among the Bönpo of Dolpo (Western Nepal)

  In the heart of the Himalayas, some officiants belonging to Tibet’s ancient religion, Bön, undertake a long ritual pilgrimage through wild and inhospitable terrain inhabited by mountain gods, genii, demons and the restless souls of the dead.

  Using instruments fashioned from human bone, the officiants evoke the presence of invisible beings in order to celebrate the symbolic sacrifice of their own body (chöd) which is offered as to the spirits as food during a singular ritual banquette.

   

  Martino Nicoletti, The Nomadic Sacrifice, Le loup des steppes, 2015

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  The Path of Light (libro con CD) (In ristampa)

  All, Opere sullo Dzogchen, Le produzioni musicali

  Un CD dedicato alla musica rituale del Bön, la religione prebuddhista del Tibet, una delle tradizioni spirituali meno note dell’Asia.

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  The Zoo of the Giraffe Women

  Anthropos, All

  A Journey among the Kayan of Northern Thailand.

  In a village in the far north of Thailand, under the stunning light of a tropical sun, surreal women impeccably wearing their ethnic attire, smiling and motionless, offer themselves to the cameras of voracious tourists.

  Adorned with gorgeous necklaces of shining brass coils, they are the famous “giraffe women”, the epithet commonly used to define members of the Kayan tribe originally from eastern Burma.
  The vivid contrast between the myths narrating the origin of this ethnic group and their current condition as refugees from the civil war in their homeland provides an outstanding and sharp testimony to life in Thailand’s “human zoos”.

  A wide selection of photographs taken by the author using old vintage cameras from the early 1900s and the link to a poignant short video, shot with Super-8 film, enrich the volume, visually amplifying the unique mood of the written account.

   

  Martino Nicoletti, The Zoo of the Giraffe Women, Le loup des steppes, 2015

   

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  Upadesa Saram

  All, Arunachala

  Condensata in brevi, splendidi, versi, la quintessenza dell’intero insegnamento di Sri Ramana Maharshi, uno dei più grandi maestri spirituali del nostro tempo.

   

   

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  Versi sparsi

  All, Arunachala

  Esposta in forma poetica, una testimonianza unica della vita, dell’insegnamento spirituale e dell’infinita umanità di Sri Ramana Maharshi: la canzone della focaccia croccante, le scuse ai calabroni della montagna sacra di Arunachala, la “lamentela” dello stomaco, la preghiera per la madre ammalata, la “discesa mistica” nel cuore alla scoperta dello sfolgorante Sé…

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  Water Memory

  All, La Pupilla di Baudelaire

  Ispirandosi ai testi delle antiche tavolette orfiche – tradizionalmente sepolte assieme al corpo dell’iniziato come un memento e come guida effettiva durante il viaggio –  questo artist’s book, combinando performance e fotografia, presenta una serie di immagini in bianco e nero scattate nel territorio del Lago Trasimeno, in Umbria, impiegando lo strumento della fotografia stenopeica.

  In questa visiva e visionaria narrazione dell’aldilà, l’anima solitaria è ritratta nel suo dialogo con antiche memorie e nella lotta con il proprio passato, posta dunque sulla sottile frontiera tra il rischio di un’estinzione negli abissi del nulla e la possibilità di continuare il proprio viaggio così da potersi finalmente riunire alla propria matrice divina.

   

  Edizione limitata di 51 esemplari numerati e firmati dall’autore.

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