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- From: mimir@hardy.u.washington.edu (Al Billings)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Shha hamanism
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:46:49 GMT
- Organization: The Friends of Loki Society
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- In article <C181wM.8K6@news.iastate.edu> txdv1@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
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- > I one\c ce attended a shamanism-in-art lecrture at Iowa State U
- >in which the lecturer said ths at shamanism is a worldwide phenom
- >enon, including in Europe and the British Isles. Pweeople here know
- >about Eastern mysticism ansd Native American, Australian and African
- >shamanism, but don't realize that British and European tribes parac
- >ticed exactly the same spirituality. Grendel sounds like a prime
- >example of that one.
-
- No, they didn't practice the same spirituality and most scholars (which
- new age lecturers aren't) know this. There is very little to almost no
- evidence of Shamanism in the British Isles. All of the evidence I have
- seen is of shamanIC practices, which is not the same as the whole complex
- of shamanism.
-
- > Of course Celts had religious leaders that could be described as
- >shamans. They went through the same otherworld initiation of dismem
- >berment and reconstruction tht is described in other cultures.
-
- No, the Celts didn't have leaders that were Shamans. Can you cite some
- source to give ANY evidence for this other than a new age author who is a
- wannabe shaman?
-
- Wassail,
- Grendel Grettisson
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