RE: On the origin of religion
February 6, 2017 at 8:21 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2017 at 8:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Nevertheless, shamanic explanations have been presented to civilization (and not just those you don't accept as examples of civilization). I'm not so much disagreeing as pinging opinions as to when a holy man ceases to be a shaman and becomes a priest.
When is it no longer appropriate or accurate to call the man in a dress a witch doctor, a bruoa, a vodun? When is it no longer appropriate to call what they believe in shamanism? The foundational concept of shamanism is that there are human intercessionary agents between ourselves and the divine and/or spiritual....at what point does any tradition of holy practitioners distance themselves from that designation? Such that we could say that one arose from the other...rather than one -being- the other by another name?
When is it no longer appropriate or accurate to call the man in a dress a witch doctor, a bruoa, a vodun? When is it no longer appropriate to call what they believe in shamanism? The foundational concept of shamanism is that there are human intercessionary agents between ourselves and the divine and/or spiritual....at what point does any tradition of holy practitioners distance themselves from that designation? Such that we could say that one arose from the other...rather than one -being- the other by another name?
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