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The pagan shamans were not just attending to matters and problems of a spiritual nature, they’ve also treated physical illnesses much like modern doctors. As well as dealing with fertility department, and other issues that are physical in nature.
The way I understand it, is that to the old-world shamans it all went together, the physical, mental, and the spiritual, for it was all interconnected, and one effects the other.
Whenever the shamans dealt with the person’s physical problem, they understood that they are at the same time dealing with this individual’s mental, and spiritual state.
And we know that unlike the pagan shamans of old who were the local pagan priests, local doctors and local psychologists/psychiatrists, the Abrahamic priests only focus on matters of the soul, and afterlife. So just by acknowledging this, we can already see why we can’t compare the indigenous shamans to Christian priests.
The pagan shamans were not just attending to matters and problems of a spiritual nature, they’ve also treated physical illnesses much like modern doctors. As well as dealing with fertility department, and other issues that are physical in nature.
The way I understand it, is that to the old-world shamans it all went together, the physical, mental, and the spiritual, for it was all interconnected, and one effects the other.
Whenever the shamans dealt with the person’s physical problem, they understood that they are at the same time dealing with this individual’s mental, and spiritual state.
And we know that unlike the pagan shamans of old who were the local pagan priests, local doctors and local psychologists/psychiatrists, the Abrahamic priests only focus on matters of the soul, and afterlife. So just by acknowledging this, we can already see why we can’t compare the indigenous shamans to Christian priests.
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To say that the old-world shamans served the same purpose as Abrahamic priests I personally feel is incorrect, because one side represents a man-made religion and book, whilst the other side represents the living nature, natural cycles, and organic life made by the gods.
A Christian priest intermediates/speaks on behalf of his Abrahamic god, but the pagan shamans will take you to meet the gods. The shaman will guide you to the gods, and you yourself can talk to them.
Christian priest will speak for Christian God for which there is no evidence, and which you yourself can not personally directly experience, but the pagan shaman will take you on a spiritual journey, the one that you yourself will experience with your own consciousness and mind, and it requires no blind belief, because you will know.
To say that the old-world shamans served the same purpose as Abrahamic priests I personally feel is incorrect, because one side represents a man-made religion and book, whilst the other side represents the living nature, natural cycles, and organic life made by the gods.
A Christian priest intermediates/speaks on behalf of his Abrahamic god, but the pagan shamans will take you to meet the gods. The shaman will guide you to the gods, and you yourself can talk to them.
Christian priest will speak for Christian God for which there is no evidence, and which you yourself can not personally directly experience, but the pagan shaman will take you on a spiritual journey, the one that you yourself will experience with your own consciousness and mind, and it requires no blind belief, because you will know.
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From what I understood, in the old world during paganism, most people were able to do their own rituals, and they didn’t always require shaman’s help. I am assuming that sometimes a certain god, goddess, spirit, or ancestor couldn’t be reached by the person on their own, and that’s when shamans would help, also if a female had fertility problems shamans would assist with that as well. Someone from the tribe could be cursed, and the curse maybe too strong for the person to lift on their own, and so they would require a local shaman’s help. Tribal communal matters, such as specific rites of passage, communal rituals & ceremonies, that was also the role of a shaman.
Like I said, it is much more complicated than that, because shamans of indigenous cultures serve many different purposes, and I’m not an expert on this topic
From what I understood, in the old world during paganism, most people were able to do their own rituals, and they didn’t always require shaman’s help. I am assuming that sometimes a certain god, goddess, spirit, or ancestor couldn’t be reached by the person on their own, and that’s when shamans would help, also if a female had fertility problems shamans would assist with that as well. Someone from the tribe could be cursed, and the curse maybe too strong for the person to lift on their own, and so they would require a local shaman’s help. Tribal communal matters, such as specific rites of passage, communal rituals & ceremonies, that was also the role of a shaman.
Like I said, it is much more complicated than that, because shamans of indigenous cultures serve many different purposes, and I’m not an expert on this topic
This is a heartwarming story of one dairy cow. She was rescued, and reunited with her baby. I’m not sharing this because I’m telling people not to eat animals. I’m not even a full vegetarian myself, because few days a week I eat seafood. To me the problem is not whether or not people eat animals. To me it’s about the quality of life that an animal has before it gives its life to feed humans. I am 100% against factory farming, or dairy industry. It’s much much better on the animals, on human health, and on our environment to go back to the old ways, when the animals were treated kindly, and kept in clean, natural conditions. Back in the old days, people kept some animals, but it was very small scale family farms, and the animals on those farms were treated with kindness and respect, and the people tried their best to create a natural environment for their animals. They definitely didn’t separate mothers from their babies, and allow the animals to stay together as families. It wasn’t about business, or profit making. Factory farming, dairy industry, industrial agriculture are evil industries that treat animals as things. They have no empathy towards any living being, not humans, not animals, not our planet. They keep animals in horrific conditions, crammed together covered in their own feces. This creates disease, sick animals, which then goes to humans, and this infection spreads onto the environment. This particular cow didn’t come from the massive dairy farm, but, even though this cow came from a smaller family dairy farm, it was still a business. It was a family business, but a business nonetheless. Our ancestors kept animals for themselves, not for a business. Still, this cow was rescued. If she came from a massive dairy farm, she wouldn’t have been rescued. After an entire lifetime of getting forcefully impregnated by humans, and forced to produce an unnaturally large amount of offsprings so that she could continually produce breastmilk for profit, after being forcefully separated from her newborn infants, which happened immediately after she gave each birth, after grieving and crying each time her baby was taken away from her after each birth, she can now finally live the rest of her life in peace, and what’s more, one of her babies was returned to her, and on top of it all, this dairy cow was pregnant when she arrived to this sanctuary, which means that for the very first time in her entire life, this beautiful, gentle being will get to give birth to her baby, and keep her baby by her side, and raise her little one. I’m so happy for her, and yet, I’m so sad for the billions of other animals that suffer in factory farming
To me professor J. R. R. Tolkien will always be a magician. The world considers his works as fantasy, not true, but to me, Tolkien’s works have a basis in truth and reality. I view mythology as a great source of knowledge, and to me, the work of Tolkien is among the best myths and legends of our world.
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The Tribe of the Fox likes to speak positive words and we love the forest. So here are some positive words for 2021 spoken in a beautiful forest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phJntFgr1Dw&t=37s
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Tribe of the Fox, looking forward to 2021
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Possibly one of the most beauteous xmas folk songs 💚🎄 So evocative of a time gone by https://youtu.be/cKDlPa-6yy4
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Coope, Boyes, Simpson - The Copper Family Christmas Song
Coope, Boyes, Simpson - The Copper Family Christmas Song
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