Spirit Guide vs Power animal vs Animal Totem vs Spirit Animal

Medicine_Dog wrote:

I think that is like playing with concepts that conflict so just play some street fighter or Teeken with it.

 

Tis the problem with learning "shamanism"... When all the cultures practices are mixed into one term they tend to contradict themselves. Most of what is gleamed from shamanic practices is the ritualistic ceremonies-- hence the typical image of a half naked shaman dancing around a campfire with a drum. 

It's also why some people focus on the "shamanic journey" but disregard the herbal, physical, mental, emotional, conjuring, nature's law, and tribal laws. All of which are integral to the medicine man's knowledge. 

* round one- power animal vs totem animal....... FIGHT! 

Hollywoods image, is the typical image of the Shaman dancing around a campfire. The Journey, is the typical image created by the New Age movement. Then there are tons of definitions of a Shaman in books and on the internet. The real meaning of the Shaman is lost.

Auras wrote:Did I miss something? Ahwell its not my problem anyway mac lol.

Thunder_Bow wrote:The real meaning of the Shaman is lost.

Evenki is part of the Manchu-Tungus sub-group of Altaic languages and has about 20,000 speakers. It is spoken in the Evenki Autonomous District, or Evenkia (Эведы Автомоды Округ) in Russia, and also in parts of China and Mongolia. Approximately 45% of the Evenki people consider Evenki their mother tongue. Most of the speakers are elderly and the younger generation lack a thorough knowledge of the language. This is because until 1980 the Russian government tried to suppress the Evenki language, but since then Evenki has been taught in schools.
Evenki, which is also known as Evenk, Avenki, Avenk or Tungus, has much in common with Mongolian and related languages. It has been strongly influenced by Yakut, Buryat and Russian.
Evenkia is the remotest inhabited part of Siberia. Until the 1930s, the Evenki people were mainly nomadic hunters and reindeer herders. Today hunting and reindeer herding are still important, but they are also involved in argriculture and industry.
The English word "shaman" comes from the Evenki word meaning "holy man".
Evenki was first written during the 1920s with a version of the Cyrillic alphabet. In China it is written the Latin alphabet, and used to be written with the Traditional Mongolian script.

mac wrote:

Auras wrote:What do you mean mac?

This member is well known from past times for his 'unusual' approach to forum discussions....  He knows what I mean as will some others who also know him




What exactly do you mean, mac?