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Mircea Eliade - A initiation ceremony
Identifier
011393
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Mircea Eliade – Shamaism: Archaic techniques of Ecstasy
Then the husband of the Lady of the Water who was the Lord of the Underworld, gave the initiate his two guides, an ermine and a mouse to lead him to the underworld. There he encountered the Men of the Great Sickness (syphilis), the Lord of Madness, the Lords of all the nervous disorders and evil shamans. Thus he learned of the diseases he would later cure. Still accompanied by his guides, he came to the Land of the Shamanesses, who strengthened his throat and voice. He was then carried to an island in the middle of the Nine Seas where a young birch tree rose to the sky; it was the Tree of the Lord ….
The source of the experience
Shaman unspecifiedConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Communication with a Spirit helperCommunication with Intelligences
Intelligence
Spirit helper
Underworld