2. SOME INFORMATION OF SHAMANISM GODS
Almost every civilazation had their creation story and the
name of supernatural beings that were the creators. The
Sumerians(6000BC) believed that Enki was the god of
wisdom and created the first man named Adamah. The
Babylonian's creation story was the Enuma Elish and
named Apsu and Tiamat commingling, producing creation.
Egyptians said Ptah created everything, the Kabbalahist's of
Judaism say Ain Soph Aur created the world. The Hebrews
say in Genesis of the bible,"" and God said," Let us make
man in our image" The Hopi Indians say Tawa and Spider
Woman created all. In early tablets, the Anunnaki were the
high council of the gods and the head of them was
An. Someone once said, "God is a process" There are
many in the world and there is a need for a belief system
which honors a supreme being. Namaste'...may the God in
you honor the God in me.
3. THEY BELIVE...
Spirits exist and they play important roles both in individual
lives and in human society.
The shaman can communicate with the spirit world.
Spirits can be benevolent or malevolent.
The shaman can treat sickness caused by malevolent spirits.
The shaman can employ trance inducing techniques to incite
visionary ecstasy and go on vision quests.
The shaman's spirit can leave the body to enter
the supernatural world to search for answers.
The shaman evokes animal images as spirit guides, omens,
and message-bearers.
The shaman can tell the future, scry, throw bones/runes, and
perform other varied forms of divination
6. SUPERNATURAL BEINGS
BENEVOLENT supernatural beings are called by the
Chukchee vairgit.
The most important are the 'benevolent beings sacrificed to'
(taaronyo vairgit), those to whom the people bring sacrifices.
Sacrifices are made to them only on special occasions, and are
often mingled with those offered to the kelet('evil spirits') of the
earth.'
The sun, moon, stars, and constellations are also known
as vairgit; but the sun is a special vairgin, represented as a man
clad in a bright garment, driving dogs or reindeer. He descends
every evening to his wife, the 'Walking-around-Woman'. The
moon is also represented as a man. He is not avairgin.
Among the stars, the pole-star is the principal vairgin,
There are several other vairgit beneficent to man, they represent
a very loose and indefinite personification of the creative principle
of the world.
7. GODS
The highest benevolent deity of the Gilyak is
known as Ytsigy, according to Schrenck. But
Sternberg says that they call the universe Kurn,
and apply the same name to their highest
anthropomorphic deity.
The 'owner' spirit of the mountain, and the
mountain itself, is named Pal, and the sea and
its 'owner' they call Tol.
Their name for the island of Sakhalin is Mif,
literally 'earth', and they believe that the island is
a sort of covering for a certain immense god.
8. THE WORLD WAS CREATED BY RAVEN
In one such
legend he
makes it out of
his son
Simskalin:
another has it
that he brought
the earth down
from the sky
with the help of
his sister and
fixed it
immovably in
the sea.
