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Shaman
* Many shamans are gifted storytellers and shape-shifters.
* Most shamans have dreams or visions that convey certain messages.
* Some shamans observe dietary or customary restrictions particular to their tradition.
* act as intermediaries between the world of the living and the world of spirits
  - mediators in their culture
* also engage in sorcery and witchcraft
  - have important roles during community festivals, which take place several times a year
  - perform surgery
* are able to break through the plane between different worlds, or cosmic zones
  - activists, healers
  - always female
  - bands
  - conscious of everything that transpires
  - consulted in contemporary society for financial and marital decisions
  - generally spiritual leaders, sometimes feared and often revered by the tribe
  - healers, seers, and visionaries who have mastered death
  - in a sense dead
  - nomadic, and priests build churches, schools, and rectories
  - professionals
  - religious leaders something like priests
  - summoned in order to purge the unwholesome spirits from a person
  - very spiritual people who willingly give themselves to spirit
* are, symbolically speaking, a fulcrum point between the seen and unseen worlds.
* believe that the soul can leave the body
  - there are both ordinary and a nonordinary realities
* can find out what has angered the spirits and are believed to be able to cure disease
  - talk to spirits
* cater to the spirit world on man's behalf.
* conduct healing rituals by singing, smoking tobacco, and sucking out bad blood.
* connect with compassionate spirits and elicit their help to heal people
  - the spirit of the earth through chanting and playing their drums
* cure patients through shared hallucination and guided story telling.
* do heal adventitious, mental and physical disturbances, though only at a gross level.
* everywhere are concerned with the spiritual aspects of illness and disease.
* fly over realms on mythical horses.
* go into a trance and turn into power animals.
* have two forms of election, passive and active.
* hollow themselves out so that when they focus their intent it is as powerful as possible.
* live in two worlds at the same time
  - like any other member of the group, as a hunter or housewife
* often describe the ecstatic trance in terms of a journey of the soul
  - receive the spirits of mountains
  - tell fortunes
* perform several different soul retrieval rites.
* practice divination and primitive medicine and hand down tribal folklore.
* proclaim the ability to metamorphose into wolves.
* recognize inherent power in all of nature and sense their own connection with it.
* reconnect patients with their surroundings.
* say the correct way to talk about spirits is in metaphors.
* serve as spiritual advisors and healers.
* sometimes imitate sounds that are heard in nature.
* use Least Weasels as guides to underworld realms
  - masks and costumes as a kind of armor while warding off evil spirits
  - whatever tools they know that seem appropriate for the circumstances
* usually are men, but some women also have shamanic power
  - go into a trance to find out the answers from their spirit helpers
* view magic as a living force to which they can connect through a a patron called a totem.
* work both with individual patients and with groups.
* work with animal spirits
  - their allies - the animal spirits
+ Shamanism: Religion

Vicar
* have tasks.
* includes arms
  - body substances
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - heads
  - human bodies
  - legs
  - material bodies
  - necks
  - nuclei
  - personality
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - vacuoles
* offer prayer.