ABSTRACT
Several concepts referring to violence can also be found within shamanic traditions. The most common is a concept of violence coming from the spirits, especially during the period of so-called shamanic disease. This chapter explains the concept of shamanic culture contains, at least in Siberia, a variety of motives and typical expressions: spirits will attack, exert pressure and harass a person destined to become a shaman. Many traits of violence demonstrate both a spirits' activity and a shaman's healing practice, mostly as a reaction to it. In the latter case, shamans often use tools such as a lash, whip, switch, bundle of twigs, or sticks. The chapter examines a text which Khakass philologist L. N. Achitaeva recorded in 1998, during an expedition to the Khakass-Sagays, or simple Sagays are one of the four main ethnic groups of Khakasses. It provides shamanic text which mentioned a Mountain Master tag eezi the typical figure of a shamanic pantheon in South Siberia.
