Harakmbut

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The Last Shaman  [Amarakaeri sub-tribe of the Harakmbut tribe in Madre de Dio`s, Peru`]

shamanic terminology

 

cosmology

 

shamanism

 

souls of the dead

 

myths

 

p. 53, fn. 5 [Wac^ipaeri subtribe myth] "a man took a chick out of a nest. {this is the "bird-nester" myth} It was a kokoy bird ... and it taught the man how to kill people with ... knives".

pp. 68-69 c^idign (‘chant for curing’) : species by-passed by moka (peccary) on path

 

p. 70 this sequence of species "has to be known ... to find the soul" :

"The soul of the curer hovers about a foot above the ground and floats through the misty forest passing the same route which the mokas take ... to follow the trail of the mokas until he finds them in the circle with the soul in the centre. ... In this case, the curer suddenly shouts and ‘sticks like a fly’ to the soul of the sick person".

curing of sick patient by shaman

 

p. 71 aetiology, cure, and symptoms of ailments

 

p. 80 author’s personal experience (in astral projection)

 

p. 175 animals

 

p. 245 sexual conception of embryo

 

p. 248, Fig. 12.1 categories of spirits, their social activities and states of nokiren

 

Andrew Gray : The Last Shaman. Berghahn Books, Providence (RI), 1997.