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to animals, the shaman remembers a language that keeps the universal
interpreted with speech not descended from words, always risking animated
spirits as
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A friend told
me that he wants to immigrate to Germany. "But I'd have to
ship my five-hundred paintings, and I won't go without a
sign of entrancement. Next to the masked shamanic figure, we see
a staff
surmounted by a bird, which an auroch, or a similar large mammal,
is leaning over him. Some
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a sign of entrancement: M.
Ripinsky-Naxon The Nature of Shamanism. Albany, NY., 1993.
masked shamanic figure: "It
concerns a drawing in Lascaux Cave from the Old Stone Age, that is,
from about sixteen to seventeen thousand years ago. The cave was
discovered near the French village of Montignac in the Dordogne in
1940. It contains a profusion of drawings of animals executed with
consummate skill, but also a drawing of a human figure. At a cursory
glance, this naked man seems to have fallen over backward,
right in front of a huge
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