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What is Shamanism

Chapter 16
Handbook of Research on Ecosystem-Based Theoretical Models of Learning and Communication
An early form of religion, based on the belief in communication between shaman and spirits in a condition of trance.
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The Symbolism of Archaic Rites, Signs, and Superstitions of Teleuts
Maria Obraztsova (Kemerovo State University, Russia), Elvira Stepanovna Denisova (Kemerovo State University, Russia), and Ursula Valeryevna Kereksibesova (Kemerovo State University, Russia)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7853-6.ch016
Abstract
The chapter is devoted to the description of the cultural traditions of the indigenous people of the North-Teleuts, which currently numbers approximately 2,600 persons. It gives an analysis of signs and superstitions of the Teleut people. There are considered two archaic ritual symbol of female “эмегендер/emegender” and male “сомдор/somdor” amulets. The burial ceremony of Teleuts and Telengits is described. The chapter consists of three sections, written by the project executors “Language and culture of Teleuts,” which is supported by grant RHSF/RFBR Nº 17-04-00252 ONG/18.
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Creativity and Dreaming
A religious phenomenon centered on the shaman , a person considered able to harness various powers through trance or ecstatic religious experience. The shaman is believed to interact with spirits with the goal of directing spiritual energies into the physical world, for healing or other purposes.
Published in Chapter: Creativity and Dreaming; From: Sustaining Creativity and the Arts in the Digital Age
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