"That is, if one agrees with and is willing to use Eliade's
terminology. Basically, he sees Shamen everywhere, just like others
see fertility cults everywhere."
A true and important clarification. However, one should also be
careful not to reject every instance in which Eliade sees a Shaman. In
our case, although Eliade's points are pertinent, it is rather
dubious: first, his shaman-fixation makes shamanism a very ambiguous
thing in itself so that it is possible to link it to everything (the
president of a government could also be a shaman); second, if we look
at the accepted definition of shamanism, it almost exclusively refers
to the healing practices in primitive societies, which has very little
or nothing to do with the berserker. If one must see an instance of
shamaninism in every "tribal" culture, then the berseker cannot be a
good place to look in as, as the moderator of this last has noted
previously, the scandinavian berserker may be compared to the Roman
furor, Romanity which, I think most would agree, has nothing to do
with tribalism.
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It might be opportune at this point of the discussion to render here an article by comparitive religions scholar Mircea Eliade which has previously been...
It might be opportune at this point of the discussion to render here an article by comparitive religions scholar Mircea Eliade which has previously been...
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