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Jochelson - Living in the taiga
Identifier
001282
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Jochelson - The Koryak
'I was told that people about to become shamans have fits of wild paroxysms alternating with a condition of complete exhaustion. They will lie motionless for two or three days without partaking of food or drink. Finally they retire to the wilderness, where they spend their time enduring hunger and cold in order to prepare themselves for their calling.
The source of the experience
Siberian shamanismConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Being in extremely inhospitable surroundingsDehydration
Frenetic exercise
Hypothermia
Loneliness and isolation
Nutritional deprivation