Month: March 2022

According to Hawaiian shamans, the stuff of which everything in the Universe is created and connected. A vast web of aka threads connects all things.…

Air, one of the elemental powers, can be used for healing in both its physical form and in its energetic form, as when the shaman…

The aghula is a traditional dance of the Eskimo. It provides preventative medicine for the community and an inner journey for the dancers back to…

The Achuar are an indigenous people living deep in the Ecuadorian rain forest. Their total population ranges somewhere between 6,000 to 8,000 people, and, when…

The achnucek is a transformed shaman of the Aleut and Kodiak peoples of the southern Alaskan regions. Their gender variance was recognized when they were…

Aboriginal, from the Latin phrase ab origine meaning from the beginning, refers to the first people. When capitalized, Aboriginal refers to the first people of…

Extra Pay – Term proposed by Graham Harvey referring to the ways in which Western (scholars and neo-shamans) might contribute to shamanisms in a reciprocal…

Evenk (Tungus) – The term shaman derives from the Tungus language group, the largest of the northern group of the Manchu-Tungus languages, and the nomadic…

European Paleolithic – The Old Stone Age, a chronological period extending from around two million years ago to around ten thousand years ago, depending on…

Ethnomusicology – Music, rhythm, chant, song, drumming, and other instrumental performances are significant aspects of much shamanic work and have been studied by this branch…