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    The way of the Shamans
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    Study of historic, traditional and contemporary shamanic experience.

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    The word shaman comes to English from the Tungus language via Russian. While the Tungus have no word for shamanism, it has come into usage by anthropologists, historians of religion and others in contemporary society to designate the experience and the practices of the shaman. Its usage has grown to include similar experiences and practices in cultures outside of the original Siberian cultures. Thus shamanism is not the name of a religion or group of religions. Shamanism is classified by anthropologists as an archaic magico-religious phenomenon in which the shaman is the great master of ecstasy...


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    * Julia Manach, Sep 17, 2003 - 04:16

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