ABSTRACT

Mircea Eliade, Shamanism (1964) 2 I taught them shamaning. Now I am going to teach you. The old shamans

have died off, and there is no one to heal people. You are to become a shaman.

Leo Sternberg, Divine Election in Primitive Religion (1924) 3 The shaman sits down on the ground and, after drumming for a long time,

invokes his tutelary spirits… Accompanied by his helping spirits, he had followed the road that leads to the Kingdom of Shadows.