7 sentences with “shamans”

The initiation trials of Siberian and Uralaltaic shamans consisted of a profound encounter with death.

Plotkin sat on a narrow bench, his notebook on his lap, surrounded by the three shamans, Koita and several children.

These shamans, whose ages ranged from 55 to 65, cultivated an art that their children now consider old-fashioned and somewhat extravagant.

Hunter-gatherer societies have very few social divisions; there may be chiefs and shamans, but all members of the group have roughly equal social power.

"They thought it was the funniest thing they'd ever seen," Plotkin says. "One of the shamans called me, after the incident, The White Man Who Fell Butt-First.

The hallucinogens, "disguised", deceive the hormone-controlled nervous system and transmit impulses to it that are different from the normal ones. Then the little stars appear and the shamans feel as agile as a jaguar.

In pre-Columbian America, drugs were not a one-way trip, as in modern society, but a recurrent religious element. During hallucinations, indigenous people, led by their shamans - priests - visualised their gods and received "life lessons".