Month: March 2022

San Pedro – A cactus (Trichocereus pachanoi) indigenous to the northern Andes in South America, valued by indigenous doctors, curanderos, for inducing vomiting and visions.…

San – Also known as Bushmen (both terms are problematic). The San are the descendents of the original indigenous inhabitants of Southern Africa. Currently, San…

Samuel, Geoffrey – Australian professor of Tibetan religions, now at Cardiff University in Wales. In addition to important ethnographic discussion of Tibetan shamanism and Tantric…

Saladin D’Anglure, Bernard (1936– ) – French-born professor of anthropology at the Université Laval in Canada. Since 1956, Saladin d’Anglure has been particularly interested in…

Sakha – Sakha may refer to peoples known as the Sakha (formerly Yakut) living in the Sakha region (Yakutia) in northeast Siberia; the Sakha language,…

Sacred Trust, The – “A United Kingdom–based educational organization concerned with the teaching of practical shamanism for modern women and men,” founded and directed by…

Sacred Sites – Marking out particular places—from a small cave containing rock art to an entire landscape—as being special in some way is a consistent…

Sacred Hoop 1) Sacred Hoop Neo-shamanic journal based in Great Britain and established in 1993 by Nick and Jan Wood, offering “a network magazine for…

Sabina, Maria (1888–1985) – Mazatec Indian curandera who was “discovered” in the 1950s by the ethnomycologist Gordon Wasson. Wasson held Sabina’s veledas (healing ceremonies involving…

Saami(Sámi) – Also known as Lapps. Indigenous to northern Finland, Norway, Sweden, and northwestern Russia, the Saami’s primary traditional mode of subsistence is reindeer herding.…