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Thug, Thuggee, Tantrism and India
President Trump used the word "thug", when talking about the criminal who killed NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller. This is not the first time he's used that word. Anon thinks President Trump is trying to tell us something. With that in mind and Q drops crawling around in Anon's brain, there could be only one result. A dig!
What do we know about the word "thug"? Not enough! The word thug comes from the word Thuggee, a cult of assassins in India. According to Mysteries of India, "Thuggees were an organized gang ofprofessional assassinswho operated from the 13th to the 19th centuries in India." Anons may be surprised to learn that the Thuggee specialty wasinfiltration. Thirty-two Q drops contain the word infiltration, 4 of them say "Infiltration not invasion". Mysteries of India says of the Thuggees, "Their crimes involved a high degree ofteamworkandco-ordinationboth during theinfiltrationphase and at the moment of attack. Each member had a well-honed specialty; some distracted their quarry, some made noise or music to mask any cries, while others guarded the campsite from intruders and escapees. Thugs of the highest rank performed the actual killings."
Mystery of India - Thugs – The Cult Assassins of India
https://www.mysteryofindia.com/2014/10/thugs-the-cult-assassins-of-india.html
Encyclopedia.com tells us that "No organized cult of killers has ever murdered as many people as the Thuggee. In the 1830s this Indian secret society strangled upward of 30,000 native people and travelers as a sacrifice to theirgoddess Kali, the 'Dark Mother,' the Hindu Triple Goddess ofcreation, preservation, and destruction. The name Thuggee comes from the Sanskrit sthaga, 'deceiver.'" Encyclopedia.com also reports that the thug life is hereditary. They say, "Themurderous craft of the Thuggee was hereditary. Its practitioners weretrained from earliest childhoodto murder by the quick, quiet method of a strong cloth noose tightened about the neck of their victims. This weapon, the 'Rumal,' was worn knotted about the waist of each member of the Thuggee." If that's not bad enough, we learn that females have their own way to participate in the cult life. "The Thuggee had theirfemale counterpartsin a secret sect ofTantristswho held that it was only by aconstant indulgence in passionthat a human could ever achieve total union with Kali. Only indulgence in thefive vices that corrupt the soulof humankind—wine,meat,fish,mystical gesticulations, andsexual indulgence—could drive the poisons out of the human body and purify the soul."
Encyclopedia.com - The Thuggee
https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/thuggee
Britannica says, "Thug, member of a well-organized confederacy of professional assassins who traveled in gangs throughout India for several hundred years." Thuggees were not permitted to spill blood while killing their targets. Their specialty was strangulation. Red scarf anyone? According to Britannica, "The thugs would insinuate themselves into the confidence of wayfarers and, when a favourable opportunity presented itself, strangle them by throwing ahandkerchiefor noose around their necks. They then plundered and buried them. All this was done according to certainancient and rigidly prescribed formsand after the performance ofspecial religious rites, in which the consecration of the pickax and the sacrifice of sugar formed a prominent part. Although the thugs traced their origin to seven Muslim tribes, Hindus appear to have been associated with them at an early period; at any rate, their religious creed and practices asworshipers of Kālī, theHindu goddess of destruction, showed no influence of Islām. Thefraternitypossessed a jargon of its own (Ramasi) and signs by which its members recognized each other."
Britannica - Thug - Indian Bandit
https://www.britannica.com/topic/thug