S^or

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Last of the S^or shamans [on upper Kondom & Mrassu rivers (p. 5)]

[on orthography : /j/ is pronounced as in German; /y/ when a vowel is as German umlauted /u:/]

pp. 6, 33-39 rattle & drum

 

pp. 12-13 cosmology

 

pp. 14-15 cosmogony

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SAC = "South American Cultures". In :- Exploring Ancient Skies. Birkha:user, 2005. pp. 463-472.

pp. 15-19 souls

 

pp. 18, 23-27, 53-54 deities

 

pp. 29-30 how a person would become a kam (‘shaman’)

 

pp. 30-32, 50, 52 shamans’ spirit-helpers

 

pp. 17, 38, 40, 48, 51-53 spirit-journey by shaman

 

pp. 20, 40-41 marriage of shaman to spirit

 

pp. 41-42, 54, 62-63 shamans’ garb; shamans’ visitors’ garb

 

pp. 45-46 kojhug (‘migrations’) = rites for souls of the dead, on lower Mrassu river

 

divinations

 

Alexander & Luba Arbachakov (translated from the Russian by Joanna Dobson) : The Last of the Shor Shamans. O Books (an imprint of John Hunt Publ Ltd), Winchester (Hants, UK), 2008. [ pp. vi-vii are endorsements; with notice (p. vii) that the translating-process was "sponsored by Dream Change, Inc. and the Wilderness Wisdom Fund"; p. 91 Alexander & Luba are husband & wife, both Shor natives  ]