Colleoni, Aldo (a cura di) – MONGOLIAN SHAMANISM – CNR 2005

cm. 24 x 17, pp. 306, brossura, in ottime condizioni.

Nomadism and shamanism are intrinsically connected. Nomads within nature and do not harm it. They follow the natural pace of seasons and life without trying to alter the outcome of time’s process. Tenger, god creator of all, Time that has created all things in a long evolutive course regulates also the nomads life. Nature, which we are part of, has specific rules that shamans are aware of and which they can make comprehensible for whom is unable to observe and communicate with the surrounding nature. Man often is not able to understand the language of animals, plants, earth, whereas shamans do comprehend it due to their deeper sensitivity, usually transmittable to their descendants.

The shamans live among Asian, American, African and Australian nomads. Shamans are back in sedentary, rural, industrialised and globalised Europe. This very historical phase, including informatics and telematics, takes us back to the need of going back to origins, a return to nature which ewe have disregarded for too long. It should be held as a gift, a resource to use as it is our Mother, it is within ourselves.

Shamans in Europe are those who manage to keep in touch with nature and its varied expressions (languages); they descent from Eurasian nomads. They are the ones who are ahead of technology and are able to know that the person whom they are thinking about is about to call them within minutes by phone or other modern means of communication from a distance of hundreds or thousands kilometres. Shamans are people who can understand the meaning and reason of natural phenomena, of flooding, landslides, eruptions as normal expressions of such a human being as Earth and its offspring, created by Tenger all through the patient evolutive cycle within the great harmony of both life and death. The purpose of this assay is to present the western audience with the outcomes of recent studies carried out by Mongolian scientists with regard to the “phenomenon” of shamanism that has recently stimulated a renewed interest from people and scientific environment as well as scholars in religion geography.