Fields of the Nephilim – Also known as the Nephilim or Nefilim. British rock band established in 1983 who came to prominence with the gothic subculture of the late 1980s and early
Czaplicka, Maria Antonina – (1886–1921) Polish-born cultural anthropologist best known for her fieldwork among indigenous Siberian communities, published as Aboriginal Siberia (1914). Czaplicka documents Siberian shamanism as a form of “Arctic hysteria”: “To be called a shaman is generally equivalent
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.
Rock Art – Paintings (also known as pictographs) and engravings (also known as petroglyphs) on rock surfaces in caves or rock shelters and on boulders and exposed rock in the open landscape.
Ripinsky-Naxon, Michael – Scholar whose interest in shamanism concerns the use of psychoactives, the origins of religion, and the nature of religious experience. In line with established developments in the study of
Rhythm – Shamans in many cultures make use of rhythmic music, songs, chants, dances, and movements. Instruments as varied as drums, rattles, and bells are used. Claims are sometimes made that shamans
Resource management – A significant role for shamans in many indigenous cultures, part of their mediatory and political functions. Shamans may engage with particular animals, plants, birds, fish, and similar other-than-human persons
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