| Most of the shamen who dance naked around a campfire are wearing what they wear all the time, nothing or not much at all (remember of National Geographic mags)?
However in modern times the nudity would prepresent openness, trust, and liberation (freedom).
Example: If you attend the ritual in a sweat londge at a Native American camp you might sit around in there with other naked people, that is part of the baptism of fire and water ritual they use. The water being poured over the fire rocks causes steam and as the place gets hot the sweat of our own body mingles with the baptism steam from the fire and water combinaton. This is a purification process for both the body and for the spirit.
The rituals and the dance is not designed for sexual purposes unless it is a "coming of age" dance for girls as part of a mating ritual in selecting a partner for marrage.
The person who knew about the volcano punishments was not that old but was from an old family who passed down knowledge from generation to generation, he even knew which plant they used to get this medicine that they would give the person before sending him off to his doom in the fire. The medicene could take away all fear and so the person would not suffer and if fact the person who did murder someone for a unjustified reason would just agree to jump as he thought that was the only way to make amends for his missconduct, which insured him peace in the next life, if he did not want to make amends he had to leave the community and go his own way as a hermit of the wilderness.
Can I talk with a 1000 year old shaman? Not like we talk to people here and now, but in the shaman way we can always have contact with the "Elders" (their spirits) which downloaded information can allow one to vision the past or whatever is not part of this time frame.
In modern science it is called "remote viewing".
Technosoul. |