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monotheism, especially Christianity, took numerous segments of the pagan
religion. The oldest religious movement which is familiar to us is the Neolithic cult
of the Grand Mother, which is called the first and oldest deity in human history.
And the Grand Mother is what connects the Illyrians with the reptiles (snake,
dragon, salamander) and their alien heritage or ancient race from which they
stem.

There is a large possibility that the Illyrians had some connection or even
common heritage with the people from India, which can be grasped if we analyse
certain legends from Bosnian mythology. The most interesting tale about the
mysterious creatures called utve zlatokrile - half humans, half birds, which didn't
have sexual distinctions. It is claimed that they have escaped from India to
Bosnia, "that cursed land".
Another rarity of the Bosnian people but also connection with India is located in
the traditional belief in the migration of the human's soul into an animal and vice
versa (reincarnation), which is actually the basic concept of the Bogomils in
Bosnia during the Middle ages. How much this belief was widespread and
accepted from the folk is best witnessed from the fact that still today in the
st
21 century, there are old people who prolong the belief about the migration of
the soul. In Velika Kladuša there are still old ladies from which you can hear the
claim that evil people, especially murderers and thieves, turn into cows after
death, horses, pigs, etc. so that they could repay their sins in the new life, serving
other people. This traditional belief, which is found in total opposition about the
classic monotheistic maxim of the soul leaving to heaven or hell, clearly points to
the deep rooted belief about reincarnation among the Bosnian people.

In the end, we will return to the beginning of the text which speaks about the
Illyrians as skilled mages and clairvoyants and the part about the belief in the
connection of humans and stars in the sky and we will compare all that with the
hinduistic teaching about chakras. Ajna or the sixth chakra is located in the
middle of the forehead, above the eyebrows, and is connected with the pineal
gland which is inactive in most humans, and it gives the ability of telepathy,
clairvoyance, astral projection, etc. to mystics. This sixth chakra is often called
the third eye and can be seen on ancient drawings of numerous deities.
In Illyrian-Bosnian tradition the third eye is called "star" which has the function to
connect man with its star in the sky, seat of the soul. In practice this belief is
widespread among the stravarke which annul negative energy while performing
the ritual, using molten lead, covering their forehead with their hand i.e. their
"star" for fear of negative energy blocking their invisible connection with the star
in the sky. As each one of them claim, if that would happen, it could be possible
for them to lose their mind and fall ill physically.
This ritual process directly goes in favour of the assumption that the Illyrian
believed that they stem from another planet, with which they stayed in contact
through the "star" on their forehead or the third eye. Or that their astral bodies
descended to earth and populated it in the bodies of some ancient human

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