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NEW TIBETAN MELONG (MIRROR) Amulet.
Diameter : 43mm (1.7 inches).
For protection and good luck.
Included with this new melong / toli mirror is a blessed Temple 'wishing' cloth from Wat Bang Phra Temple, Thailand.
This is a perfect copy of an ancient Tibetan Shaman's Melong / Toli mirror that has been perfectly copied from a very old and rare original mirror.
This melong / Toli mirror has been created by a Buddhist jeweller in Nepal.
Please Note: This is a hand created perfect copy and not a mass produced Chinese mirror.
This new melong / toli shaman's mirror is a perfect copy of a very old rare original.
This melong / toli has been hand created by a Buddhist jeweller in Nepal.
An old original Melong (Shaman's
Mirror) is made from an alloy of 7 different metals. Copper, Tin, Lead, Zinc,
Iron, Gold and silver are used. This is the same alloy that Tibetan Singing
Bowls are made from. The reason 7 metals are used is that it was the same number
of metals as the planets that were known. 1. Saturn 2. Jupiter 3. Mars 4. Sun 5.
Venus 6. Mercury 7. Moon. Very ancient Tibetan Singing Bowls were often melted
down to have a special sacred Melong made especially for a
Shaman. This new mirror is made from Bronze.
NEW TIBETAN
MELONG (MIRROR) Amulet.
Diameter : 1.75 inches.
For protection and good luck.
Old Shamans Coat
The above picture is of an old (ancient) shaman's coat. This coat is an essential part of a real shaman's ancient tradition. The coat is made from a combination of silk and fur and on it hangs, glass beads, shells, bronze bells, pieces of blessed and empowered cloth, thogchags (Tibetan charms), and Bronze Shaman's mirrors (Melong). All of these items make up the Shaman's universe and are needed for his special ancient healing. The coat can be very heavy with all the bronze Melong (Mirrors) Thogchag (Tibetan Charms) and other sacred and blessed items. The coat is a special healing article and contains much of the sacred power that the Shaman will draw upon in his healing and magical work. By wearing a coat such as this the Shaman is actually wearing and is always reminded of his special magical universe. The Shamans coat is part of his protective armour which protects him from hostile and very dangerous spirits while he shamanises and heals. The large Melong (Shamans mirrors) are hung on the coat to deflect the attack of hostile and dangerous spirits and also act as a home for the Shaman's own helper sacred spirits.
This is a perfect copy of an ancient Tibetan Shaman's Melong / Toli mirror that has been perfectly copied from a very old and rare original mirror.
This melong / Toli mirror has been created by a Buddhist jeweller in Nepal.
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The outer ring (on the back) shows the domain of Rahu, the Star God, a deity in charge of the planets and time. The next ring shows the twelve zodiac animals of the Tibetan zodiac, and the inner circle the eight Trigrams. The front of the melong mirrors away negativity by reflecting it.
This melong / toli mirror has been hand crafetd by a jeweller in Nepal. It is a perfect copy of an ancient original mirror. This type of melong / toli mirror has been used for many thousands of years. This melong / toli mirror is perfect to wear as a protective amulet. These amulets are used for divination and protection, and were said to have been created by Padmasambhava when he came to Tibet in the 7th Century CE. Tibetan's hang them over their front doors, inside their houses or wear them as talismans. The outer ring (on the back) shows the domain of Rahu, the Star God, a deity in charge of the planets and time, the next ring shows the twelve zodiac animals of the Tibetan zodiac, and the inner circle shows the eight Trigrams. The front of the melong mirrors away negativity by reflecting it away from you.
The Tibetan Shaman’s Melong
The Tibetan Shaman’s Melong (mirror) is used to ward off and to reflect away evil. These mirrors are also used in traditional Feng Shui to reflect away all negative influences and to increase all positive influences. Small Melong can be worn as amulets.
Old melong mirrors are often found in archaeological digs as they had a major role in ancient death traditions where a mirror was often placed on the dead person’s chest to keep the person safe on their journey to the next world. There are many wall paintings in old tombs that show Shaman holding up these melong so that any bad spirits would be frightened away. These magical mirrors have many different names depending on the region that the shaman comes from. In Manchuria they are called Panaptu, in Mongolia they are called ‘Toli’, and in Tibet ‘Melong’.
A shamans mirror is not a mirror as we know it, all clean and perfectly shiny and reflecting. A real shaman’s mirror can and usually is hazy, dull, and well scratched and black with great use and age.
These melong, (Tibetan mirrors) are used as an aid to seeing into other worlds in a manner that is similar to scrying. This includes seeing into the future and diagnostic work where the Shaman will gaze into the reflection of the sick person and will then diagnose the illness.
When used for healing work this melong is not just used to reflect the illness but it also contains pure positive sacred healing power which has been gathered and stored inside. This mirror is then placed upon the sick person and the pure positive power is transferred. This mirror can be put into water for 24 hours and the healing energy that is stored inside will be transferred to the water to turn it into a spiritually encharged nectar that the sick person can drink.
Old sacred melong mirrors are a container for spirits. These can be the shamans own helper spirits when used by the shaman. They can be the spirit of the ailment or disease that has been taken away from the sick person or a special sacred container that is used by the shaman to hold the missing parts of a sick person’s soul which has been found in the spirit world.
A melong mirror can also be used as a window or portal through which the shaman passes to enter the spirit world on a shamanic journey. The melong is still used and worn nowadays by astrologers, healers, lamas and shaman. Sky energy is a beneficial energetic influence in Tibetan geomancy and melongs help to activate it in order to improve ones health, general wellbeing and to increase ones lifespan.
Melong are also used to wash and cleanse sacred objects. To do this the
object that has to be cleansed should be reflected in the melong, and then water
should be poured over the reflection.
Different sides of the Melong mirror.
The Concave side: focuses sacred light and power into a central spot, and will encrease the energy. This side (concave) is worn next to (facing) the body.
Melong mirror.
A Melong will help to dispel evil, bad or difficult mental states: Hold your melong at arms length with the concave side towards you. You must now visulise your problems leaving you and passing through the Melong. Your problems will pass through the Melong and will vanish.
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It is very difficult if not impossible to find an old Melong (shaman’s mirror). Traditionally when a shaman died his mirror or mirrors would be buried with him. If they were not buried with him these sacred melong mirrors are usually passed on generation to generation. Sometimes a shaman might hunt a mirror by trying to find out where other shamen were buried and then dig it up. Sometimes a shaman’s mirror that had been buried would ‘speak’ to another as it would want to work with the living shaman instead of staying with their deceased original owner. .
The above two pictures are of a Shaman's mirror costume from North East Manchuria ,The Peoples Republic of China.
This
Shaman's costume (pictures above) is one of a series of elements which
allowed a shaman’s body to transform into a ‘vessel’ that received
different spirits. Among the Imin Numinchen, shamans were primarily
concerned with healing, prediction and with people’s relations with
their ancestors.
This costume belonged to a young female shaman who
died in the 1930s, aged 25. No two costumes are identical. They are
assembled and added to as a shaman becomes more experienced,
incorporating materials from different sources. The brass mirrors came
from Chinese merchants.
The
heavy shaman's mirrors act in a double capacity – they protect the
shaman by deflecting harm, while revealing what is normally invisible to
the human eye. The number of mirrors on the costume indicates the
shaman’s powers and maps a geographical cosmos. By wearing the costume,
the shaman is located in the centre of this cosmos.
During
performance, a shaman is seized by one or more ancestral spirits, so
that what is inside the mirror-costume is the spirits, rather than the
shaman’s body. Here, the body is something open to forces that can
control it, inhabit its form and shape its physical features.
In ancient Tibet a bronze mirror was also used as a a love token, and a funeral object whose purpose was to signify a love that carried on into the afterworld. In ancient times it was believed that the soul lived on after death, but that as a person made their way to the netherworld they were forced to drink a potion that wiped out all memory of events in their lifetime. Devoted couples sometimes held half of a mirror at their funeral, so that on entering the afterworld they could meet, match their mirror's half and resume their life together.
Tibetan
Calendar |
In the Tibetan calendar years are named after one of the animals of the Tibetan zodiac (horse, sheep, monkey, bird, dog, pig, rat/mouse, cow/ox, tiger, hare, dragon, snake). Apart from this cycle of twelve years, there is a cycle of ten years in which two subsequent years are indicated with one of five elements (iron, water, wood, fire, earth). These cycles combined give a sixty (12x5) year period of unique combinations of an animal with an element. Every year is divided into lunar months which in principal consist of thirty days but might be shorter because unlucky days are not counted and some holy days are counted twice. Then every month has four special days of worship: the 8th, 10th, 15th and 25th. And every year has its special holy days. The birthday of Buddha was celebrated in 2002 on May 26. |
In Mongolia the lunar new year is called Tsagaan
sar, meaning the white month (sar = moon / month), which is celebrated during a
few days at the end of the 81 days winter period. Nomads divide the year into
periods of nine days, and winter thus consists of nine of these periods. The
periods have names like: `Lambs must be covered´ and `Not cold enough to freeze
the soup´. The main shamanistic ritual called the Great Sacrifice is held on the
third day of Tsagaan sar.
This blessed Temple 'wishing' cloth comes from the Wat Bang Phra Temple in Thailand. This blessed and empowered temple cloth talisman is called a Pha Yant. It can also be called a 'Cloth Yant' a 'Paa Yant', a 'Payant' or a 'Yant cloth talisman' This sacred blessed and empowered 'Pha Yant' sacred talisman can be framed and hung on a wall, hung on a wall as it is, carried with you in your pocket or placed in your car to grant you a safe journey. It can be given to a friend or loved one as a special sacred gift. This 'Pha Yant' is for your protection from evil and bad spirits, and will protect you against bad luck. A 'Pha Yant' will protect you from danger. This 'Pha Yant' will grant you a long and healthy life and also grant your wishes. A sacred 'Pha Yant' can be given to grant blessings to a wedded couple to enable them to have many healthy children and to have a long and a happy marriage. **** If you write your wishes on the back of a blessed 'Pha Yant' they will be granted . Pha Yant TAW WAES SUWAN. (Temple Guardian) picture above.
Taw Waes Suwan is the King and
Lord of the North he is known as a protector against Demons and the
Lord of Treasure and Wealth. Taw Waes Suwan will help you increase your
material wealth and will help you greatly in all financial matters. In
times of hardship Taw Waes Suwan will help you to have the money to pay
your bills and he will ward away all dark and evil spirits and he will
protect you from all enemies. Taw Waes Suwan is a very wealthy lord and
his great success, wealth and power elevated him to a deva in Heaven.
Taw Waes Suwan is seen guarding the enterance to many Temples in
Thailand and he is revered by Thai Buddhists as the Lord of Great
Fortune and Riches. The image of Taw Waes Suwan is often printed on Pha
Yant's (Temple cloths) also on the cloths are printed protective spells
and sacred imagery. This type of Pha Yant is normally obtained at the
'SWOD PAN YAKS' ceremony. In this ceremony Taw Waes Suwan is called to
reside in the Yantra Cloth to protect you against all evils and also to
clean ones past Karma. A picture of me at the Wat Bang Phra Temple, Thailand. |
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nothing at all was impossible, you could do anything and everything. In those days long ago your spirit had not been reduced by negativity you believed in pure and special magical powers and your mind was open to receive and discover and to understand the mysteries of life.*******************************************
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This is a perfect copy of an ancient Tibetan Shaman's Melong / Toli mirror that has been perfectly copied from a very old and rare original mirror.
This melong / Toli mirror has been created by a Buddhist jeweller in Nepal.
Celebrating Vesak also means making special efforts to bring happiness to the unfortunate like the aged, the handicapped and the sick. To this day, Buddhists will distribute gifts in cash and kind to various charitable homes throughout the country. Vesak is also a time for great joy and happiness, expressed not by pandering to one’s appetites but by concentrating on useful activities such as decorating and illuminating temples, painting and creating exquisite scenes from the life of the Buddha for public dissemination. Devout Buddhists also vie with one another to provide refreshments and vegetarian food to devotees who visit the temple to pay homage to the Blessed One.
Paying homage to Buddha
Tradition ascribes to the Buddha himself instruction on how to pay him homage. Just before he died, he saw his faithful attendant Ananda, weeping. The Buddha advised him not to weep, but to understand the universal law that all compounded things (including even his own body) must disintegrate. He advised everyone not to cry over the disintegration of the physical body but to regard his teachings (The Dharma) as their teacher from then on, because only the Dharma truth is eternal and not subject to the law of change. He also stressed that the way to pay homage to him was not merely by offering flowers, incense, and lights, but by truly and sincerely striving to follow his teachings. This is how devotees are expected to celebrate Vesak: to use the opportunity to reiterate their determination to lead noble lives, to develop their minds, to practise loving-kindness and to bring peace and harmony to humanity.
Shamans throughout the world and throughout time, recognize that the universe is alive, conscious, and filled with spiritual power. Shamans know how to access this web of power and work with it skillfully and effectively to address their, and their community's needs. Shamanism is the use of shamanic practices within a shamanic value system. Traditionally a shaman goes through the experience of a "calling", usually through illness, accident or some unusual quality of being, then through an arduous apprenticeship of teaching, training and testing, followed by some sort of passage rite into their new status. Typically shaman do not define themselves as such. Instead they are defined by their community based on what it is that they do. Becoming a shaman and living as a shaman is a difficult and demanding life path that many indigenous people shy away from because of its formidable requirements. It is not about fun and glamor. Unskillful and uneducated acts can cause harm, or even be life-threatening, to the practicioner as well as to others. For shamanism deals with power, and power can move in many different ways, like electricity. It is important to move slowly with respect, humility and care.
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