This is ancient, but it’s worth blogging, isn’t it? Black Death ‘was caused by the Ebola virus’
Year: 2001
A huge archive of Art – this is very cool, and saves scanning…
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A cool Siberian Shaman’s costume.
A cool Siberian Shaman’s costume. Also, interesting stuff in the linked article:
In order to operate on this higher plane, the shaman must fully identify with the powers which he hopes to wield. Masks are one of the empowering mediums by which the shaman ‘becomes’ the spirit which he invites to possess him. Such possession is described as an ecstatic experience. Other tools which help bring about this transformation include ritual costume, weapons, drums, and perhaps psychotropic substances…
Shamanism in a nutshell (part 1) on the Barbelith site. When’s the O’Reilly book coming, I wonder? :)
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Looking up Mircea Eliade, the
Looking up Mircea Eliade, the Rumanian scholar who wrote much about Shamanism, I found both a literary biography, a philosophical essay and an online version of a reference work he compiled about non-western religions, From Primitives to Zen.