funeral rites:

See: cremation, bone-gathering, samskaras of later life, funeral rituals.

(See also: Funeral rites, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

firewalking: The trance-inducing ceremonial practice of walking over a bed of smoldering, red-hot coals as an expression of faith and sometimes as a form of penance. Participants describe it as a euphoric experience in which no pain is felt and no burns received. Many lose body consciousness during the walk.

Firewalking is associated with folk-shamanic Shaktism and is popular among Hindu communities inside and outside India.

See: folk-shamanic, penance, Shaktism.

(See also: Firewalking, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

five acts of Siva: Panchakritya. Creation, preservation, destruction, veiling and revealing.

See: Nataraja, Parameshvara.

(See also: Five acts of Siva, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

folk narratives: Community or village stories which are passed from generation to generation through verbal telling-often a mixture of fact and fiction, allegory and myth, legend and symbolism, conveying lessons about life, character and conduct.

The most extensive and influential of India's folk narratives are the Puranas. While these stories are broadly deemed to be scriptural fact, this contemporary Hindu catechism accepts them as important mythology-stories meant to capture the imagination of the common peoples and to teach them moral living.

See: fable, katha, mythology, Purana.

(See also: Folk narratives, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

folk-shamanic: Of or related to a tribal or village tradition in which the mystic priest, shaman, plays a central role, wielding powers of magic and spirituality. Revered for his ability to influence and control nature and people, to cause good and bad things to happen, he is the intermediary between man and divine forces. The term shaman is from the Sanskrit shramana, "ascetic," akin to shram, "to exert."

See: Shaktism, shamanism.

(See also: Folk-shamanic, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

F  - The sixth letter of the English alphabet, for which there is no equivalent in Hebrew. It is the double F F of the Eolians which became the Digamma for some mysterious reasons. It corresponds to the Greek phi. As a Latin numeral it denotes 40, with a dash over the letter (F) 400,000.

(See also: F - Letter F, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

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