Tao Te Ching

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“The shaman's relation with the Spirit is represented as a kind of love-affair. One is, of course, vaguely reminded of temple prostitutes in the Near East, and of devadasi and Krishna's relations with the adoring cow-girls in India.”

Arthur Waley 1899 – 1969 CE
from Nine songs: a study of shamanism in ancient China (1955)​

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