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Mircea Eliade - Describes Tungus rebirth
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Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Mircea Eliade – Shamanism Archaic techniques of ecstasy
Another Tungus shaman relates that he was sick for a whole year. During that time he sang to feel better. His shaman ancestors came and initiated him. They pierced him with arrows until he lost consciousness and fell to the ground; they cut off his flesh, tore out his bones and counted them; if one had been missing, he could not have become a shaman. During this operation he went for a whole summer without eating or drinking