7 sentences with 'shamans'
Example sentences and phrases with the word shamans and other words derived from it.
• « The initiation trials of Siberian and Uralaltaic shamans consisted of a profound encounter with death. »
• « 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. »
• « 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". »
• « 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. »
• « These shamans, whose ages ranged from 55 to 65, cultivated an art that their children now consider old-fashioned and somewhat extravagant. »
• « "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. »
• « Plotkin sat on a narrow bench, his notebook on his lap, surrounded by the three shamans, Koita and several children. »