Text Appearing Before Image: The same is true of \etalas who are spirits capable of reani-mating dead bodies. Accordingly there is a marked difference be-tween the Christian and the Tibetan Death dances. The former TUl-: SKELETON AS A REPRESENTATION OF DEATH. 625 ones, though called dances are not always dances, but simply illus-trations of the innumerable ways of Death, and Death is repre-sented in them as a skeleton. It is noteworthy that the dead are ^*** Text Appearing After Image: THE DANCE OF THE NINE SKELETONS.From Knights Where Three Empires Meet. never represented as skeletons in Christian art. When they rise fromthe grave, or are led to judgment, they arc always clothed withflesh; they are naked but never reduced to bones only, while we have 626 THE OPEN COURT. reason to believe that the Tibetan skeletons are ghosts, or ratherthe reanimated remains of the dead. They may be good ghostssuch as the protectors of the graveyard, or evil ones like the nineskeletons that try to injure the body of a new arrival at the realmsof death.
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