Dogman, wolfman, lycanthrope, werewolf

(Peter Austin) Lycanthropes (werewolves, dogmen, monsters)

How cryptids can live inside mountains

There were never giants. People around the world are just imagining it. This? Natural pile.

There's nothing to see here, no world below the surface of the planet, no boring machines...

Missing 411: Mt. Shasta disappearances

(The Missing Enigma) Sept. 21, 2023: Abduction or imagination? Perhaps the most bizarre missing person case ever. Link to Patreon: themissingenigma.

(The Lore Lodge) Missing 411. Mount Shasta is in the Cascade Range of Northern California, USA. It has become the center of a number of cases of high strangeness. The land of the Klamath Indians is a hot spot for paranormal encounters. Robot grandmas, vanishing hikers, and an underground city of Lemurians in the mountain... Is something in our forests?

There is a local Native American legend of a shapeshifting green fireball named Tahquitz (a mountain-dwelling cryptid, the Idyllwild Monster, possibly a jinn or Sasquatch, called yakkha and rakshasa in Buddhism), said to be a spirit or ghoul, only worse because it can transform itself and fly or disappear into and reappear out of solid rock in and around Agua Caliente, where it resides.

No one lives inside rocks because it's impossible.

Both are part of Native American lore in Riverside, the county next to Los Angeles. (Who are the cryptids of cryptozoology?)

Anyone who has listened to the careful detective work of former police detective David Paulides (Missing 411) or read his carefully compiled and ever-growing list of more than 1,000 curated cases will know that the greatest danger one is in when one is about to go missing -- disappearing on a hike with companions or becoming so lost that one is never again seen alive -- is when traveling in or near a granite boulder field, such as Yosemite.

There are maps of enormous cave systems in the U.S. that overlap almost perfectly with concentrations of missing persons reports.

Creatures live in those caves, entities haunt them, portals exist in or near them, and there are D.U.M.B.s (deep underground military bases) with guards and agents that utilize, extend, and allow these tunnels, tubes, and caverns to remain in use by or all of these.

Cases in haunted Iceland show that this lore is not limited to some modern hysteria in the United States. Others in the Old World are very familiar with the notion of "hollow hills" and the beings that dwell within. See, for example, that popularity of the famous Edvard Grieg song "In the Hall of the Mountain King."

Peer Gynt was a Norwegian confabulator, an exaggerator, a liar, and it bit him in the behind. He should have listened to his fiancée Solveig. But that this Norwegian tale is told reveals the deep-seated belief in ogres, trolls, gnomes, dangerous mountain folk in hollow hills.

One place over all others in the U.S. is famous for these sorts of goings on and that is the mysterious Mt. Shasta. People, particularly children, are abducted and taken "into" the mountain. What does that mean, into the mountain?

It is as if they step right through as in the famous case of the American who went to the Andes near Lake Titicaca to a mysterious portal carved into the side of rock. He learned from the local shaman how to use it with a precise series of whistles and tones. And he succeeded in leaving our dimension and time, vanishing from this side to the other.

He reported that when he passed into the stone, it is as if it were glass. He could see out but could neither be seen nor heard. What if there is a simple -- albeit until now an unbelievable one -- answer to what has been going on in Shasta and elsewhere? These abductions could have been using these high-tech passageways rather than some plasma or other rarefied state of stone to enter and exit.

It seems evident the military did not build these features into the rock and then simply forget about them until reminded by this cowardly explorer who immediately called the authorities. He could have documented, observed, and explored them for everyone. Now they are closed off, lost to explorers, just as infinitely deep holes around the country get raided, cordoned off, and erased from Google Earth maps.

For all the mysteries here, particularly the many subterranean worlds already existing, being built by secret boring technology (though Elon Musk brags he has the biggest borer), there is a cover up. Every weekday, scientists in Southern California go underground and enter a high-speed train system that quickly takes them Nevada, alighting in Las Vegas and being taken out to bases. So go much farther east, and nearly everyone in the country is kept in the dark about this.

• The Missing Enigma; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Xochitl, Wisdom Quarterly

Karma of Body/Behavior Modification (sutra)

Ven. Ñanamoli Thera (trans.), Kukkuravatika Sutta: "The Dog-Duty Ascetic" (MN 57 PTS: M i 387); Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Look at my white dog, Babe - I see! He's so cute! - Want to touch it? - NO, no, I'm good.

Werewolf, a man becomes a lycanthrope or canine wolfman (Lucas Cranach) 

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Introduction

(Bhikkhu Khantipalo)

I shapeshift into a monster (WWMT)

There were some strange people around in the Buddha's days believing some strange things — but that is just like our time when people hold the oddest and most unbalanced ideas.

In this sutra we meet some people who believed that by imitating animals they would be find salvation (liberation, enlightenment, awakening, sparing themselves further rebirth so as to make an end of suffering in this very life).

Is lesbianism harmful karma? You can't ask that!

They're still with us, too. Belief is one thing, action another. While beliefs sometimes influence actions, for others beliefs are quite separate from what actions are taken. But the Buddha says all intentional actions (volitions, motivated deeds) -- whether manifesting as mere thoughts, turning into speech, or bodily acts -- however expressed, are karma and lead the doer to experience results of these actions sooner or later.

In this discourse the Buddha classifies karma into four groups:

1. dark with a dark results
2. bright with a bright results
3. dark and bright with a dark and bright results
4. neither dark nor bright with a neither dark nor bright results.

Madonna Monster at the Grammys (NYPost)

Dark (unskillful, harmful, bad) karma does not [when it finally comes to fruition] give a bright (happy) results, nor does bright (beneficial) karma lead to dark (miserable) results.

Karma can be mixed, where an action is willed and done impelled by a variety of motives, some good, some bad. A kind of karma also exists that gives up attachment to and interest in the other three and therefore leads beyond the range of karma.

• Who’s a good boy? Not the Michigan Dogman (michiganradio.org)
• Werewolves are real: Cyanthropy
• "Werewolf" is a human-canine lycanthrope

SUTRA: "The Dog-Duty Ascetic"

I want a blind dog because I can't see.

1. Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One [the Buddha] was living in the Koliyan country, there in a town of the Koliyans called Haliddavasana.

2. Then Punna, a Koliyan and an ox-duty ascetic, and also Seniya a naked dog-duty ascetic, went to the Blessed One, and Punna the ox-duty ascetic paid homage to the Blessed One and sat down respectfully to one side, while Seniya the naked dog-duty ascetic exchanged greetings with the Blessed One and, when the courteous and amiable talk was finished, sat down to one side curled up like a dog.

When Punna the ox-duty ascetic sat down, he asked the Blessed One: "Venerable sir, this naked dog-duty ascetic Seniya does what is hard to do: He eats his food when it is thrown on the ground. That dog-duty has long been taken up and practiced by him. What will be his [karmic] destination? What will be his future course [of rebirth as a result of this habit]?" [1]

"Enough, Punna, let it be. Do not ask that."

[But a second and third time Punna asked again.]

"Well, Punna, since I cannot persuade you when I say, 'Enough, Punna, let it be. Do not ask that,' I shall answer.

3. "Here [within this Teaching], Punna, someone develops the dog duty fully and unreservedly. One develops the dog habit fully and unreservedly. One develops the dog mind fully and unreservedly. One develops dog behavior fully and reservedly.

Having done that [having willed and carried out this karma], on the dissolution of the body, after death, one reappears in the company of dogs. But if one's view is such as this: 'By this virtue or duty or asceticism or religious life I shall become a (great) shining one or some (lesser) shining one,' that is wrong view in his case.

I thought we'd be reborn as oxen. - Shut up, Punna.

Now there are two destinations for one with wrong view, I say -- hell or the animal womb. So, Punna, if his dog duty is perfected, it will lead him to the company of dogs. If it is not, it will lead him to hell."

4. When this was said, Seniya the naked dog-duty ascetic wept and shed tears. Then the Blessed One said to Punna, the Koliyan and ox-duty ascetic:

"Punna, I could not persuade you when I said, 'Enough Punna, let it be. Do not ask that.'"

"Venerable sir, I am not weeping that the Blessed One has spoken thus. This dog duty has long been taken up and practiced by me. Venerable sir, there is this Punna, a son of the Koliyans and an ox duty ascetic: that ox-duty has long been taken up and practiced by him. What will be his destination? What will be his future course [of rebirth]?"

"Enough, Seniya, let it be. Do not ask that." [But a second and third time Seniya asked.]

"Well, Seniya, since I cannot persuade you when I say, 'Enough, Seniya, let it be. Do not ask that,' I shall therefore answer you." More

Yeti: Bear Man of Buddhist Lore (PBS)

The Crazed Hunt for the Himalayan Yeti

(Monstrum, 3/11/20) The yeti is one of the world’s most notorious cryptids, one searched for in earnest and with great enthusiasm.

The huge, hairy bear-man monster is said to roam the valleys of the Himalayas, and some people out there are convinced the “abominable snowman” (actually man bear snow man) is real.

Does this snow monster really exist? Is it a type of bear or Bigfoot? An unidentified humanoid species (Almas, Gigantopithecus)? Himalayan Buddhist lore? Complete fiction?

Let’s find out in this episode of Monstrum. Host Dr. Emily Zarka examines the yeti’s origins, from the ancient Tibetan Buddhist folklore to the modern Westernized "abominable snowman" version.

These ogres are filthy, stink and live in the snow

She explains how Buddhist beliefs, a series of intrepid 20th-century explorers, and a creatively translated word make the yeti the creature we recognize today — and how it led to some pretty incredible scientific discoveries.

• Written and hosted by Dr. Emily Zarka. Director: David Schulte. Executive Producer: Amanda Fox. Producer: Stephanie Noone. Illustrator: Samuel Allen. Editor: Derek Borsheim. Produced by Spotzen for PBS Digital Studios.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Gigantopithecus looks just like a yeti that goes on all fours (Concavenator/wiki)

• Bellezza, John Vincent. Spirit-mediums, Sacred Mountains and Related Bon Textual Traditions in Upper Tibet: Calling Down the Gods. BRILL, 2005.
• Capper, D. S. (2012). The Friendly Yeti. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, 6(1), 71-87. Available at: aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/14855.
• Choi, Charles Q. “‘Yeti Hair? Nothing so Abominable, Scientists Find.” Live Science, Nov. 29, 2017. livescience.com/61048-yeti....
• Hodgson, B. H. "Summary Description of Four New Species of Otter. By B. H. Hodgson, Esq., Resident at Catmandu, Nepal." Annals of Natural History, vol. 5, no. 28, 1840, p. 27+
• Hodgson, B. H. “On the Mammalia of Nepal.” Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. 1 (1832): pp. 335-349.
• Howard-Bury, Lieut.-Col. C.K and Other Members of the Mount Everest Expedition. Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921. Longmans, Green and Co., 1922.
• Kets de Vries, Manfred F. R. "Abominable Snowman or Bigfoot: A Psychoanalytic Search for the Origin of Yeti and Sasquatch Tales" Fabula, 23.1 (2009): 246-261.
• Lan, Tianying, et. al. “Evolutionary history of enigmatic bears in the Tibetan Plateau‑Himalaya region and the identity of the yeti.” Proceedings Royal Society, 284: 20171804.
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• Regal, Brian. Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• Ward, Michael. “Everest 1951: the footprints attributed to the Yeti—myth and reality.” Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, 8 (1997): pp. 29–32.
• Waddell, Laurence Austine. Among the Himalayas. 2nd edition. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1900. "Yeti." Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained, edited by Una McGovern, Chambers Harrap, 1st edition, 2007.

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The Woman Who Married a Bear

Lisa M. (Friends of Jung); Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly

Yeti, Meh Tehi, Miche or "Bear Man" is a legendary cryptid found all over the world.

The History and Meaning of the Iconic Grateful Dead Bears - Extra Chill

Tonight, we’ll explore The Woman Who Married a Bear [i.e., who had sexual relations with an ogre, yaksha, rakshasa, wild-bear-man or Yeti, Sasquatch, Bigfoot], an ancient tale told in cultures around the world, about a young woman who lives with her family near snow-capped mountains [the home of yetis and yeren "wildmen" in Chinese] at the edge of the known world [such as Nepal/Bhutan/Tibet].

Yeren: China's "Wildman" [Bear-Man]

(South China Morning Post, 8/25/18) Tales of the Shennongjia Forest yeren, or "wildman" [sometimes Bearman], have been spread widely in China over the last four decades. Records of it can be found in ancient poetry books, dating back thousands of years. This "Bigfoot" has been described as a hairy, ape-like creature, with facial features that resemble a human. This mysterious figure is covered from head to toe with long brownish hair and has been sighted over 400 times during the last four decades in Shennongjia Forest and surrounding areas. SCMP interviewed witnesses, explorers, experts, and even opponents trying to unveil the mystery of the legendary monster.

Sex with stinkin subhuman ogres?

Myths, dreams, and visions visit all of us on the edges of the known world. It is the edges where our instinctive, collective, animal "souls" [or archetypal memories] hold the grail of renewal.

We are not separate. The Archetype of the Animal-Human-Divine [tiracchana-manusya-deva] is often symbolized as world creator in creation mythologies.

This ever-present wisdom of our shapeshifting creative animal [base or instinctive] selves seeks integration and expression.

Carl Jung discovered that living on the edge of his known world brought Big Dreams and visions, which led in time to the discovery of his life’s work.

Let’s bring our bear dreams to share and hold sacred. What heals and guides the individual self or soul can also heal and guide our world. Dream, Myth, and the World of Inter-being, Thursday, June 30, 2022, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Trump and the anger-eating demon

Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly

At home with the Mango Moron: "Whatcha mad at now, Dad?" - "STFU, J-Boy!" - What, what did you call me? - "Jared-Boy, you stupid J*w. Go bring Ivanka in here." - "More incest?" - "Rrr!" (rense)

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He works for me, so I'll never go hungry.

There is a kind of "demon" (yakkha, rakshasa, asura, preta, naraka, naga) that devours angry aimed at it, is energized by, feeds on it, craves it and is nourished by it. What if a "devil" were overlooking Don John Trump's shoulder delighting in his fury, rage, and fumes? It could by son-in-law Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Dick Cheney, Satan, Micky Pence, anyone even Trump's alter-ego. Who fuels others' anger to bask in the vitriol?

Buddhism: Who is Mara (the "devil")?

Ven. Nyanatiloka (Buddhist Dictionary) edited by Wisdom Quarterly with Wiki edit

Erotic Greek Eros, Roman Cupid, Vedic/Buddhist/Jain/Hindu Kamadeva (wiki)

Woman overcome by sensuality under Cupid's influence or control (chanteuse Lana Del Rey)

Māra (literally "the killer"), is the Buddhist "Tempter"-figure, kind of Roman Cupid or Christian Lucifer.

He is often called "Māra the Evil One" (pāpimā māro) or Namuci (literally, "the non-liberator," i.e., the obstructor, the opponent of liberation).

Mara as Stewie as Cupid as Satan

He appears in the sutras both as a real person (i.e., as a deity -- Kamadeva, the "god of love or sensuality," in Ancient Indian lore -- residing in a high Sensual Sphere heaven below Brahma just like Lucifer at the feet of God) and as the personification of death, harm/evil and passions, and of the totality of samsaric existence.

"Shiva Turns Kama to Ashes" Madan-Bhasma, cupidity destroyed (metmuseum.org).

Kamadeva (Mara, Eros, Cupid) shooting his "love-arrow" at Shiva (BritishMuseum.org)

• The name Kamadeva (kāma-deva) can be translated as "god of love." Kama (kāma) means "desire" or "longing," especially as in sensual or sexual love (eros). Deva means heavenly or divine, referring to general classes of beings superior in many ways to humans. The name is used in the Rig Veda (RV 9, 113. 11). Kamadeva is a name of Vishnu in the history Vishnu Purana and the Bhagavata Purana (SB 5.18.15) and of Krishna [the all-attractive Lucifer-like beauty Kanha, the very comely "Dark One"] as well as of Shiva.
• Kāmadeva [Cupid to the Romans] is represented as a young, handsome winged man with green skin [green is the color of the heart chakra] who wields a bow and arrow. His bow is made of sugarcane with a string of honeybees, and his arrows are decorated with five kinds of fragrant flowers. More

Later Pāli language literature often speaks of a "fivefold Māra" (pañca-māra):

The Roman god Cupid

1. Mara the deva or deity (māra-devaputta)
2. Mara of the defilements (kilesa-māra)
3. Mara of the aggregates (khandha-māra)
4. Mara of the karma-formations (karma-māra)
5. Mara as death (maccu-māra).

"I am your victim, Cupid" - Lana

As a real person, Mara is regarded as the deva ruling over the highest heaven of the Sensuous Sphere (kāmā vacara), one of the three divisions of the universe, that of the "deities wielding power over the creations of others" (paranimmitavasavatti-devas) to be specific (Commentary to MN 1).

According to tradition, when the Bodhisatta (literally, the "Being bent on Enlightenment," i.e., the Buddha-to-be) was seated under the bodhi tree, Māra tried in vain to obstruct his attainment of supreme enlightenment* -- first by frightening him with his hosts of "demons" (yakshas, rakshasas, ogres), and so on, then with his three seductive daughters' allurements.

• [*The kind of enlightenment, known as samma-sambodhi, that would enable him to effectively teach the Dharma that makes known to the practitioner the path to enlightenment and the liberation of nirvana.]

Mara bas relief in Gandhara

This episode in the life of the Buddha is referred to as "Māra's War" (māra-yuddha). For seven years Mara followed the Buddha, looking for any weakness in him, six years before his enlightenment and one year after it (Sn. v. 446).

Mara also tried to induce the Buddha to pass away into final nirvana (parinibbāna) without proclaiming and making known the Dharma, the teaching or path-of-practice that leads those who practice it to wisdom (enlightenment) and full liberation from all suffering (nirvana).

Mara again urged the Buddha toward final nirvana when the time for the Buddha's final passing away came. But the Buddha acted on his own insight in both cases. See DN 16.

For (3) Mara as the aggregates, see S. XXIII, 1, 11, 12, 23. See the Padhāna Sutra (Sn. v. 425ff.); Māra Samyutta (S. IV).

What are "dragons" (nagas)?

G.P. Malalasekera, Dictionary of Pali Proper Names edited by Wisdom Quarterly

Garuda carries off naga in LA then gets the surprise of its life as it is nearly strangled, brought down, and the snake slithers away unscathed, Echo Park (Ranger Kate/laist.com).

Fantasy? Buddha protected by 7-headed naga.

Nāgas are a class of beings classed with garulas and supannas (garudas and suparnas, avian-hybrids, bird people, giant pterodactyl-like eagles) and playing a prominent part in Buddhist folklore. They are gifted with miraculous powers and great strength.

 

Generally speaking, they are confused with snakes, chiefly the hooded cobra, and their bodies are described as being those of snakes, though they can (shapeshift) assume human form (or other appearance) at will.

 

They are broadly divided into two classes, those that live on land (thalaja) and those that live on water (jalaja). The jalaja-nāgā live in rivers as well as in the sea, whereas the thalaja-nāgā are regarded as living beneath the surface of the earth (subterranean). Several nāga dwellings are mentioned in the books, such as:

Unbelievable REALITY: 7-headed cobra naga born in India (beforeitsnews.com)

• Mañjerika-bhavana under Mt. Sineru (Sumeru),
• Daddara-bhavana at the foot of Mt. Daddara in the Himālaya,
• Dhatarattha-nāgā under the Yamunā river,
• Nābhāsā Nāgā in Lake Nabhasa,
• Nāgas of Vesāli, Tacchaka, and Payāga (D.ii.258).

The Monastic Disciplinary Code (Vinaya, ii.109) contains a list of four royal families of nāgas (Ahirājakulāni):

1. Virūpakkhā
2. Erāpathā
3. Chabyāputtā
4. Kanhagotamakā.

Some nagas live in rivers as serpentine behemoths, like this Amazon arapaima.

 
Two other nāga tribes are generally mentioned together, the Kambalas and the Assataras. It is said (SA.iii.120) that all nāgas have their young in the Himālaya.

Human-naga, reptilian

Stories are given -- for example, in the Bhūridatta Jātaka -- of nāgas, both male and female (nāgis), mating with humans (and creating hybrids we call reptilians today).

But originally the offspring of the first attempts of such unions were "watery and delicate" (J.vi.160).

Spitting cobra (Profberger)

The nāgas are easily angered and passionate, their breath is poisonous (i.e., fire breathing dragons or venomous spitting ringhals), and even their glance can be deadly (J.vi.160, 164) [like a mesmerizing "demon" or "ogre," yakkha, rakshasas, some dimensional and Bigfoot species].
 
They are carnivorous (J.iii.361), their diet consisting chiefly of frogs (J.vi.169), and they sleep, when in the world of humans, on ant hills (Ibid., 170). The enmity between the nāgas and the garulas is proverbial (D.ii.258).

Naga (dragon) adorns temple ceiling, Kiyomizu-dera, Japan (Divemasterking2000/flickr).

 

With devi (Game of Thrones)

At first the garulas (avians) did not know how to seize the nāgas (reptilians), because the latter swallowed large stones so as to be of great weight, but they learned how in the Pandara Jātaka. The nāgas dance when music is played. But it is said (J.vi.191) that they never dance if any garula is near (due to fear) or in the presence of human dancers (due to shame).
 
The best known of all nāga is King Mahākāla, the ruler of Mañjerika-bhavana. He lives for an entire kappa (age, aeon, epoch, a variable "world period") and is a very pious follower of the Buddha.
 

Some identify with nagas

The nāgas of his world had the custodianship of a part of the Buddha's sacred cremation relics until they were needed for the Māha Thūpa or "Great Pagoda" (Mhv.xxxi.27f.), and when the Bodhi tree was being brought to Ceylon (a branch from the original tree where the ascetic Siddhartha became the Buddha was brought and still thrives in Sri Lanka, known as the oldest documented tree in the world) they did it great honor during the voyage (Mbv. p. 163f.).

Other nāga kings are also mentioned as ruling with great power and majesty and being converted to the Buddha's path, for example, Aravāla, Apalālā, Erapatta, Nandopananda (and perhaps the most famous of all, Mucalinda, the seven-headed hydra cobra who protected the Buddha), and Pannaka. (See also Ahicchatta and Ahināga). In the Atānātiya Suta (D.iii.198f.), speaking of dwellers of the Four Great Sky Kings (Cātummahārajika) world, the nāgas are mentioned as occupying the Western Quarter, with Virūpokkha as their king (regent for Sakka, the king of these four kings).
 

Naga, dragon ceiling, Engakuji Temple, Kamakura, Japan (Ezioman/flickr.com)

 
The nāgas had two chief settlements in Sri Lanka, in Nāgadīpa and at the mouth of the river Kalyānī. It was to settle a dispute between two nāga chiefs of Nāgadīpa, Mahodara and Cūlodara, that the Buddha paid his second visit to Sri Lanka. During that visit he made a promise to another nāga-king, Manjakkhika of Kalyānī, to pay him a visit, and the Buddha's third visit was in fulfillment of that undertaking (Mhv.i.48f.).
 
The nāgas form one of the guards set up by Sakka on Mt. Sineru against the titans or asuras (J.i.204). The nāgas were sometimes worshipped by human beings -- as in China, Cambodia, and Mesoamerica -- and were offered sacrifices of milk, rice, fish, meat, and strong drink (J.i.497f.) [and possibly human sacrifices judging from Aztec and Mayan carvings].

The jewel or "wish-fulfilling gem" of the nāgas is famous for its beauty and its power of conferring wishes to its possessor (J.vi.179, 180).
 
The word nāga is often used for tusker elephants and as an epithet of other "great beings" like the Buddha and the arhats, and in this connection the etymology given is āgum na karotī ti nāgo (e.g., MNid.201). The Bodhisatta -- the Buddha striving for supreme enlightenment before succeeding -- was born several times as king of the nāgas: Atula, Campeyya, Bhūridatta, Mahādaddara, and Sankhapāla.
 
In the accounts given of the nāgas there is undoubtedly great confusion between the nāgas as supernatural beings, as mere snakes, and as the name of certain non-Aryan tribes, but the confusion is too difficult to unravel.

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Yeti: Hunt for the Buddhist Wildman (video)

Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; National Geographic; Bhutanese guides; Nepalese Sherpas; Telegraph.co.uk; Arthur C. Clarke; Sasquatch Central

(National Geographic) "Yeti: Hunt for the Wildman"

  

The Yeti or Migoi (BhutanCanada.org)

In our search for apemen, other species of humans, human-hybrids, and cryptoids, Western researchers get more than they bargained for -- the preserved body of a Yeti [Migoi, pronounced meh-goor, a Yakṣī (यक्षी)] in Buddhist Bhutan. What is a Yeti to the Bhutanese, inhabitants of the world's last Himalayan Buddhist kingdom? A Nat Geo team of investigators went looking for concrete evidence "like DNA," says Oxford's Dr. Bryan Sykes. Strange tissue so far recovered turned out to be a subspecies of brown bear never before seen. Of course, that sample does not explain the five-toed, clawless footprints and the many eyewitness accounts of something that is much more than a bear. Bhutanese Vajrayana Buddhists call them "demons" (rakshasas) and consider Yetis killers. As a result more than one has been killed, and their remains are kept as cautionary relics, 100% proof for locals who fear them alive.

Nat Geo goes to Buddhist Bhutan

Mark Evans with cast of Bigfoot print (NG)

But wait. Nat Geo now believes in the firm scientific basis for Yeti? Yes, but to please the powers that be, the question has been shifted to, Is it a type of officially extinct bear? To find out for sure, Nat Geo sent Mark Evans and a team to the spectacular Himalayas. They went in search of the legend and discovered that Yeti creatures are deeply embedded in local legend. Meanwhile, Oxford Professor Bryan Sykes had some extraordinary samples to test: hairs from a Nazi Yeti killed in Tibet in the 1930's, samples from a Tengmo (the Yeti of Ladakh, in Buddhist India) shot in the early 1970's, and a mystery hair collected in Bhutan in 2001. When Prof. Sykes reveals the results, they are surprising, and could potentially identify the biological identity behind the Yeti legend. More
 
The World's Missing Apemen

(MW) "Hunt for the World's Missing Apemen" with Arthur C. Clarke from Buddhist Sri Lanka

  

Bigfoot corpse (Rick Dyer)

This classic episode of Mysterious World is a lively documentary investigating evidence for the Himalayan Buddhists'  Yeti and the North American "Bigfoot" (Sasquatch). Lester Davies talks about finding Yeti footprints that lead from snow, across water, to snow on the other bank. Davies estimates the Yeti to be 840 lbs. (60 stone) and 8 feet tall, for it crossed the waterway by simply stepping out onto two legs after having been in frigid water in which Davies sank down to his armpits. Dr. Grover Krantz, an anthropologist at Oregon State University, tracks Sasquatch. The academic is attempting to kill a single specimen for science after carefully studying footprint evidence and sightings by reputable witnesses.
  

In 2013 Oxford scientist Dr. Bryan Sykes reported on his DNA analysis of samples.

  
"Yeti lives"! Abominable Snowman still roams the Himalayas
Telegraph.co.uk

Some Yetis are brute cannibals (yakshis)

Research by an University of Oxford scientist has found a genetic match between an ancient polar bear and samples said to come from the Yeti -- suggesting the creature known as the "Abominable Snowman" is definitely still living in the Himalayas. More


 

Man-bears are humans not bears (wired.com)

But the word for "bear" is widely used for black bears in lower altitudes, brown bears in higher altitudes, the Wildman (Migoi) or "man-bear," and also the Mitchim. This use of the general word "bear" does not limit it to our Western nomenclature or classification system. There are human creatures that are not bears, ogres who are much bigger with human features, conical heads, chimp noses and otherwise bare human faces, with bodies covered in hair. They have their own language and calls, which ordinary humans are incapable of making.

Woman found who lives with Yeti

This woman lived with a giant Yeti (NatGeo)

Moreover, Sarah Seymour of the Nat Geo Team found a woman who for six years periodically lived with a Migoi or "Abominable Snowman." Villagers searched for her but could not find her because the creature hid her in a cave. She would go missing for days at a time in the wilderness, where she was unable to fend for herself, yet she would return in perfect condition each time. She claims the creature she stayed with would bring and give her whatever she wanted. (This is exactly like the Buddhist sutra where the Buddha interacted with the Yakkha Alavaka, a Yeti, who had language, preternatural strength and powers, as well as human wives and was called a "cannibal" because of its penchant for eating humans). It is no bear, and she would gladly return to it now to sleep with it in its cave, but the villagers would worry and search for her if she did. It did not harm her and may even, one imagines, have mated with her.

What is the human creature the locals see?

There is a school in Buddhist Sri Lanka named Visakha Vidyalaya. Its motto comes from the Alavaka Sutra. When this creature first confronted the Buddha, he threatened to kill him. The ogre said he would utterly destroy him unless the Buddha correctly answered its questions. One of the questions was, "How is one cleansed?" (Kathansu Parisujjhati?) to which the Buddha replied, "By wisdom is one cleansed" (Paññaya parisujjhati).

• PHOTO: American shares photo of Bigfoot killed a year ago after luring it with pork; DNA tests performed (Daily Mail)