Your reference to the dances of Lanka as 'devil' in your April 11 article, is both quaint and quack, though as you say of things other on the island, perhaps due to forces foreign yet 'hegemonic.'
These are dances to ancestors and it is only the colonially nonplussed who refer to them as such. Though perhaps, out there in the Pacific, alienated from Hawaiian reality yourselves (the one that cooked Captain Cook), you may feel marooned from creative human concourse.
I may refer you to Princeton's pensioned Professor of Anthro(a) pology, Gananath Obeysekera, who could perhaps enlighten you otherwise, or even your own (long departed) Mary Foster, who was intimate with the Buddhist revival in our country via the Anagarika Dharmapala.
Perhaps they may help you exorcise yoself of such hooey. The only devils on that island appeared after 1505, and more particularly, after 1795.
Yours truly, Yakkho (aka Devil, formerly 'Ancestor')
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