In Hereford County, there was an old habit at the funeral, and we were able to hire the poor. The poor had to get rid of all the sins of the deceased party ... the way the corpse was taken out of the house and beer; a bunch of bread was taken out, to the sinners above the corps, Considering that he took all the crimes, the beer to drink was liberated from walking after the mother bowl filled with a lot of money and 6 pence in money they died.
John Aubrey, ruins of Gentilism
When I was a kid, my family moved to the countryside of Herefordshire in the center of Celtic myths in the shadow of the Wales Black Mountains. At the edge of the village, it was isolated alone from the rest of the insufficient community. There was a small mansion. I was always warned to stay clear. In this cottage madmen lived, but they were apparently dirty and undesirable in the village. Inevitably I found a way to this place.
His cottage is standing at the intersection. I come back from the street and are surrounded by bushes and trees. It was about 1 mile from the village and there were no other houses nearby. It felt like a witch's fairy tale cottage, a place you found wrong. After that, your life is never the same. As I looked at this strange cottage, the architecture of one side was taking shape of the surrounding land, so the door opened and that single habitat appeared.
He wears clothes in the era (1970s) like an old, thin, strange white collared shirt, black trousers and stool suit, 1940s Foreign Ministry doctor or a movie version of the era railway signal provider worn. The gold chain and fob watch are hung from the pocket of the seat. So this was a crazy man I was warned apart. He began to tell me about the flowers, herbs and the story of his life. He was the one who committed a crime.
An innocent person
Sin Eaters is written or unknown. It is an ancient tradition practiced in many countries of the world and integrated into the last ceremonial Catholic ritual. This is probably born from "fraudster". It is written in Levitus xvi. 21, 22, the cheating of others is attributed to innocent people. In the Hebrew ceremony at the hair removal festival, Aaron confessed all the sins of Israel's children to the Day of Atonement. It is on the head of a living goat and it is sent to the wilderness and symbolically died, they owe their sins.
As a tradition of shamanism, a deceased family, sometimes a person who commits a crime at the church, finally eats bread and salt meals from the corpse of the corpse. By doing so, it was believed that the deceased's sin was absorbed and the deceased followed a clear course. Those who committed a crime were given some coins because of his troubles but others were avoided by the community which he sinfully filled him as dirty as a result of his work ( Literally like plague). That's why Sin Eaters usually lived at the edge of the village and warned that the children were away from them.
The role of Sin Eater was essentially the role of Shamanical Healer. It was his job to remove the spirit of negatives and diseases from the dead (and often living) and make the gods available. The teachers of this work are the spirits themselves, and in the case of Sin Eater I knew there was the Old Testament reading Shamanism with many rituals for purification and healing mysteriously lost in the New Testament . We are rewriting the nature of God from one to many (for example, Genesis 1 26: "Let people be like images", 2nd Genesis 22: "Behold" Adam is our One person knows good and evil).
The nature of sin
In the tradition of sinning, sin is the weight of wounds and souls and it is trapped in the medieval world while sin remains. Sin Eater's job is to eat this "scar" and release the soul.
A simple simple ceremony hides the more complex Sherman Maneuver by eating from the body.
First of all, the action to eat from the ban who is banned, of course, is a type of extractant. The phrase & # 39; & # 39; will absorb the sin from death before the spirit thirsts and the spirit of illness (sin) is attracted to the stronger vitality of the living. Food rather than a dead body. When food is eaten, the weight of the soul is removed.
The food itself depends on the strain of Sin Eater. Sometimes it was bread and ale, sometimes simply salt and water. The latter was more helpful for sinners, saltwater helped clean up and the invisible part of the sin-eating ceremony to leave naturally after the corpse's task to throw away his corpse Carrying, allowing the Earth itself to quell them. In another variant, a sinner is released from the crime he committed by throwing it into the water and casting the spell.
Secondly, as dead men have duties with corpses, he also prayed that the soul will be freed from attachments to the earth, so may enter heaven. In fact, this is a psycho pump work and an escort of the dead. The belief of a person committing a crime is that the imposter is guilty and shamed in the soul as a result of minor offenses and appropriate measures against others. In fact, the soul may be hurt in two ways: because the person carrying it acts like a pain to another person (Here, respecting the rights of Buddhism and # 39 - Whatever we are communicating with others or whatever they are doing to us, that we have the right way to keep spiritual integrity, or that they are ashamed acts It is a victim and can not bear their weight in fact.The victims who have been sexually abused can be tolerated by the unconscious or deep soul level that they are somehow responsible or invited There is something to believe in. Such abuse, which may be wrong, is not a reality of the facts that cause scars to the soul, but a shame of belief itself and the incident.
Third, the ceremonial dietary ritual is the healing of the area for those who are attending. When relatives and close friends died, there are often guilt of living people. Why did not I get more help? & # 39; Do I pay more attention to him when he is alive? This guilt comes about as a result of negligence of relatives and friends. The ceremony of eating sin helps to relieve this sin because at least the relatives can know that the dead were helped by hiring a sinner and healed.
Heal life
Sin Eaters rarely works with the dead. Many of them were skilled leaders of folk remedies and plant spirit shamanism, because they are close to the places of nature and rural areas.
Occasional therapy is sometimes called "root doctor". We are doing herbal cultivation which combines both the medicinal efficacy and spirit of plants. Thus, while tonics made from speckles were known to help alleviate depression, paranoia and insomnia (all the symptoms of guilt or shame as a result of the existence of sin) , Plants can also be used as amulets for driving distant evil spirits.
Likewise, marigold may be used to treat the soul simultaneously, to treat skin rashes, inflammation and ulcers (sometimes stress-induced as a result of sinful circumstances). For example, a 13th century botanist Aemilius Macer wrote that there is "power to evoke evil humor" in marigold flowers. (Interestingly, marigold is still being used in Amazon's Peru in today's shamanism practice of searching for souls).
A customer who visits Sin Eater, first confesses what to tell a crime. In this respect, the healer plays the role of an amateur - a soul friend. Its purpose was only to understand the nature of the problem and the influence on the soul, listening without judgment or prejudice to what was spoken. Even this simple behavior can make a big curative effect because it imposes a burden on the soul of guilt from persistent exercises in the Catholic confession, modernization in counseling and psychotherapy (contemporary discussion).
After hearing his client, Sin Eater may provide advice from the dead country. It is a spiritual world (spiritual world) about how these sins can be rewarded. The advice itself was often practical. For example, it is a belief that it is not a simple prayer, but sin needs to be reversed by this lifetime and the behavior of the world.
A person who repents may have been encouraged to give a tribute to the person he hurt, not to the spirit. This is quite different from the concept of Karma. For example, the balance between good and evil acts on the day of referee is emphasized, sometimes our sin. In the habit of sinning, 'Karma' has the power to erode the soul in any sin, so we have to face it right now.
As mentioned above, flowers and plant medicines may be administered to clients to balance and soothe the soul. In this way, eating sins, which is a practice over 1000 years ago, recognizes the connection between the soul of mind and body, which is what modern science should now know about. Botanical medicine itself is not only a troubled body and mind, but also a scar on healing spirit.
Sympathy of sinners
The most paradoxical aspect of Sin Eater 's life was the role of being the center of the well - being of the community, but it was expelled from there. Sin Eater was the one who spent most of his life dispersed by the community he served - and at least, the most important member of the community without him is the one who committed the crime heaven. At the same time, he was treated as dirty as a wondrous and strange thing - but if he was dirty it was due to the sin he was eating. It is not himself, but the sin of the community.
We often feel this loneliness among people with spiritual power. In many shamanism initiatives, the age of solitude is essential, and in some traditions Sherman lives in the suburbs of the community, and that he lives in thresholds and boundaries in a physical and symbolic way, # 39 A place of spiritual connection with humans. Even in our fairy tales and myths, clones, witches, and other unusual people tend to live alone in forests and shadows.
In addition to the decline of spiritual beliefs in modern cities, the emotional distress of sin victims is one of two reasons that, while symbolically surviving, is no longer a central ritual in the funeral ritual . For example, in Ireland, it is still common that the body remains in the state of the family, and in this funeral I attended in the mid-1980's, service was done on the coffin and the host wine a glass of funeral I will give you a biscuit and hand it over to the coffin and hand it over to us. Burial cake made with part of England's rural areas (such as Shropshire and Cumberland) is also a symbolic relic of traditional guilt.
In other countries, the innocent meal still continues in its original form. For example, in Bavaria, place a corpse cake on the corpse of a corpse and then have the nearest relative eat it. On the Balkan Peninsula, a small bread image of the dead is created and eaten by members of the family. In the Netherlands, the dead cake (dead cake) is dead, each with the initials of the dead.
When the modern world comes to be called the sinful era of terrorism, war, territorial invasion, probably the time will come when this powerful tradition of folk revives for our soul.
