Drive out-fly

A drive out-fly is a ustensil intended to drive out the Mouche S coming to be posed on its body, generally formed of long hairs of horse pressed on a wood handle.

In various civilizations, the drive out-fly acquired the statute of Regalia.

Object of social status

Africa

In certain countries of Africa, it had value of royal sceptre, as in civilization Igbo-Ukwu, in Nigeria.

In civilization Aksoum, there was a title, name of Aqabé Tsentsen, and meaning " guard of drives out-mouche".

More recently, Hastings Kamuzu Bandaged, dictator of the Malawi of 1964 to 1994, often exhibait a drive out-fly.

Asia

The drive out-fly, called Chamara, is a symbol of social status in various tribes of the Middle Ages of the South of the India, as in the empire Chola.

Representations of the king Suryavarman II with Angkor Vat show a profusion of parasols, ranges and drive out-flies, which, in the company of Angkor functioned like symbols of the row but also like simple ustensils intended for comfort.

Buddhism

In the Buddhism, it is normally the wheel of the Law (in Senskrit Dharmacakra) which represents the Bouddha Sakyamuni and the Dharma. But with the Nepal it is not used among the eight symbols of the auspices, not replaced like ashtamangala by a drive out-fly.

The drive out-fly symbolizing the tantric demonstrations is made hairs of tail of yaks enchased on a money handle. It is used during the ritual recitation and éventement of the divinities during the ceremony of the auspices.

The drive out-fly was also regarded as a symbol of the authority of a Zen Master (see Linji).

Anecdote

It was with a drive out-fly that the regent of Algiers under the Ottoman Empire, the Dey Hussein, struck the French Consul, in 1827, which served as a pretext for the Minister for the French war to launch the invasion of Algeria in 1830.

See too

Catch-fly

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