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Shamanism – critical concepts, 3-4

alternative name for tribes [writing /j/, as in German and the International Phonetic Assn., for /i^/ = /y/ (as pronounced in English)]

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3. "Shamanism in general".

etymology [of /s^aman/, a mere Mongolian mispronunciation of Manc^u /saman/ -- p. 64]

 

[initial /h- / x-/ must derive from */s/, as doth /h-/ (spiritus asper) in Classical Hellenic]

{cf. Bodish /sems/ ‘mind’ and Samskr.ta /syam/ ‘to consider’, or else /s a man/ ‘conciliation’}

other indigenous Altaic terms

 

{/ e j^en / oj^an/ may be related to as^n a h/, derived by Strong (H&AD 823) from /y a s^ e n/ ‘asleep’ (3463), <arabi^ /wasin/ ‘sleepy, drowsy’, /sina/ ‘slumber, nap’ (DMWA)}

H&AD = Strong : Hebrew & Aramaic Dictioanry of Bible Words.

DMWA = Cowan : A Dictionazry of Modern Written Arabic.

paraphernalia

 

p. 72 futility of blama-ism

 

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4. "The shaman".

p. 95 [laghima (miraculous lightness)]

 

p. 96 other praeternatural physiologic effects

 

pp. 96-97 sudden death whilst shamanizing

 

regularity of, & abstentions from, performing

 

p. 100 etymology of Goldi /ajami/

 

{with /haja/ (German or I.P.A. spelling for /haya/), cf. <ibri^ words, either /hay a h/ ‘calamity’ or else /h.ay/ ‘life’, the latter often in the plural /h.ayyi^m/ ‘livelihood, lifetime’ (H/E-E/HD)}

H/E-E/HD = Dov Beb-Abba : Hebrew/English English/Hebrew Dictionary.

kinds of spirits

 

the nature of spirits

 

p. 107 sacrifices by a shaman to his spirits

 

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Andrei A. Znamenski : Shamanism. RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2004. 3 Vols.

Vol. I, pp. 61-123 [= extracts from :- Sergei Shirokogoroff : Psychomental Complex of the Tungus. London : Kegan Paul, 1935.]

pp. 61-82 = 3. "Shamanism in general". [PsCT, pp. 268-276, 285-287.]

pp. 83-123 = 4. "The shaman". [PsCT, pp. 358-376.]