Lux Ferre

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 the traditional and contemporary lives of the

Sakha – Sakha may refer to peoples known as the Sakha (formerly Yakut) living in the Sakha region (Yakutia) in northeast Siberia; the Sakha language, which belongs to the Turkic family of

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 Simon Buxton and headquartered in Penzance in

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 aspect of shamanisms. Small-scale sites such as

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 the shamanic community” as well as articles

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 the ingestion of psilocybin mushrooms) to be

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. Their traditional shamanism is sometimes said to

Runic John – A British Heathen neo-shamanic practitioner and the author of The Book of Seidr: The Native English and Northern European Shamanic Tradition (2004) whose shamanic work with runes earned him

Rudgeley, Richard – Independent British scholar of archaeology, anthropology, and religious studies. Rudgeley’s volume The Alchemy of Culture: Intoxicants in Society (1993) revived interest in entheogen use through time, and more recently

Rouget, Gilbert – Ethnomusicologist of the Musée de l’Homme, Paris. Rouget is best known for his book Music and Trance (1985), in which he argues for a distinction between trance and ecstasy.