The Belief World of the Tamils as Seen in Their “Village Gods”: Blood Sacrifices and “Pollution”
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- kali-fifty4-032
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- KALI-50B4-032
- Author or attribution
- Yasumasa Sekine
- Record type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 1993
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- Senri Ethnological Studies 36 — Minpaku institutional repository
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Documents Tamil village-deity practice and sacrificial categories, supplying comparative context for Kali/Bhadrakali traditions.
Curator source KALI-50B4-032. Regional, devotional and comparative studies. Research supplement dated 5 November 2026.
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32. The Belief World of the Tamils as Seen in Their “Village Gods”: Blood Sacrifices and “Pollution”
Author/editor: Yasumasa Sekine | 1993
Type / language: Academic book chapter / village religion | English
Documents Tamil village-deity practice and sacrificial categories, supplying comparative context for Kali/Bhadrakali traditions.
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Yasumasa Sekine. The Belief World of the Tamils as Seen in Their “Village Gods”: Blood Sacrifices and “Pollution”. Senri Ethnological Studies 36 — Minpaku institutional repository. 1993. https://minpaku.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/3057/files/SES36_005.pdf
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