Shamanism in Indo-European mythologies

The paper analyzes shamanic cosmology. It is un-Indo-European in its principles and rather typical of Siberian people. The first part describes the ecstatic trances and the cosmological World Tree or Axis mundi, the combination of which is typical of true shamanism. The second part shows that some k...

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Main Author: Fournet, A.
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Language:English
Published: Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies 2020-06-01
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description The paper analyzes shamanic cosmology. It is un-Indo-European in its principles and rather typical of Siberian people. The first part describes the ecstatic trances and the cosmological World Tree or Axis mundi, the combination of which is typical of true shamanism. The second part shows that some key features of shamanism can be found outside Siberia, among Caucasic, Greek and North Germanic people. It is shown that Prometheus and Odin have clear shamanistic features.
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spelling doaj.art-899d900bc78d49bba77d1c993dca762e2023-07-23T19:03:55ZengArchaeoastronomy and Ancient TechnologiesArchaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies2310-21442020-06-0181122910.24411/2310-2144-2020-00003Shamanism in Indo-European mythologiesFournet, A.0Independent researcher, Paris V Rene Descartes, FranceThe paper analyzes shamanic cosmology. It is un-Indo-European in its principles and rather typical of Siberian people. The first part describes the ecstatic trances and the cosmological World Tree or Axis mundi, the combination of which is typical of true shamanism. The second part shows that some key features of shamanism can be found outside Siberia, among Caucasic, Greek and North Germanic people. It is shown that Prometheus and Odin have clear shamanistic features.https://aaatec.org/documents/article/fournetar2.pdfshamanismcomparative mythologygermanicgreek
spellingShingle Fournet, A.
Shamanism in Indo-European mythologies
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies
shamanism
comparative mythology
germanic
greek
title Shamanism in Indo-European mythologies
title_full Shamanism in Indo-European mythologies
title_fullStr Shamanism in Indo-European mythologies
title_full_unstemmed Shamanism in Indo-European mythologies
title_short Shamanism in Indo-European mythologies
title_sort shamanism in indo european mythologies
topic shamanism
comparative mythology
germanic
greek
url https://aaatec.org/documents/article/fournetar2.pdf
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