The double sided membrane drum Dhyangro is the peculiar, indispensable, and one of the most important, paraphernalia of the western Nepal shamans. The Nepalese shaman is the bridge, the link and mediator between the real and invisible world. Small metal objects and seeds are hooked inside the drum. The drumstick is named Gajo. The handle of the drum has the same iconogrphy of another 'weapon' of the Nepalese shamans, the ritual and talismanic dagger named in Tibetan phurba and in Sanskrit Kila, used to restrain evil entity and harmful occult influences. The iconography of the Dhyangro handle can vary from one local group to another, from the geometric to the more elaborate and figurated style. The top section of the Phurbus/Dhyangro handle is normally constituted of three faces with different expressions representing human emotions: one wrathful, one indifferent, the third Joyful. A Vajra (in Sanskrit or rdo-rje in Tibetan) or thunderbolt-diamond is carved in the central part of the item held in place by "eternal knots". On the top of the triangular blade of the Dhyangro handle/phurba we can normally find the representation of the sea-divinity named Makara (in Sanskrit, chu-srin in Tibetan) a monster half crocodile and half elephant. Seldom the makara is replaced with the effigy of Garuda. The central structure of the item, in which the Vajra is positioned vertically above the skull of the Makara could recall the myth of Indra freeing the waters of the earth and killing the serpent Vritra who had stolen all the water of the world. The blade bursts from the jaws of the Makara and has a three sided structure, in which are traditionally carved single or entwined pairs of snakes (naga in Sanskrit, klu in Tibetan). Their talismanic presence gave to the item the power to make it rain, they are also the guardians of the water and of the underworld. This is drum is used by the Tamang Tribe Shamans who live in the Himalayan mountains between Kathmandu, Nepal and the Tibetan border. It is a rustic version of what they use in the Tibetan temples, but it's use is much more occult. This drum is used by the Shamans to induce trance and call the local deity into your body. As a channel for the village deity the Shaman can answer questions and perform healings. Employed by faith healers and shaman to invoke the spirits of the heavens. A fetish sealed inside the drum adds variety to each stroke of the long curved cane beater.