(05-29-2020, 10:46 PM)Navaratna Wrote:(05-29-2020, 10:32 PM)Dtris Wrote: My interpretation, is that Ra was attempting to point out that one of the most powerful men to walk the earth in our recorded history, is a low level worker in his new environment.
I think the first reading suggests that it was his choice.
I posted this as food for thought more than real curiosity, and also because of how funny it is. I never heard of Taras Bulba before this.
Rasputin was definitely known as a mystic and Genghis Khan according to some texts some old some modern titled The Secret History of Genghis Khan indicate that he was a medicine man.
He was not a medicine man. Mongolian shamanism has the white path and the black that encompasses even the working with malevolent energies.(yellow also exists in Mongolian shamanism if you include the buddist path added later) He is considered a black shaman not implying evil but that he weilded power of both light and dark.
That’s different than being a medicine man/healer.
His adepthood and use of both light and dark was because he was a negative adept.