Shamanic Dialogues with the Invisible Dark in Tuva, Siberia: The Cursed Lives (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781527564121)

Intentional acts of â oeassault sorcery⠝, involving operations of extracting the souls of unsuspecting victims or eliminating oneâ (TM)s antagonists, are central to the perceived proliferation of occult threats and shamanic assassins in Tuva, Siberia. Following the restoration of shamanism as an official religion in the region, indigenous spiritual practitioners have propagated a vindictive strand of rituals, associated with supernatural retaliation and political assassination. This book probes the unforeseen implications of state-sanctioned appropriations of religious revival, through an unsettling context of encounters with various agencies embodying â oedark shamanism⠝. The invisible presence of this shamanic complex is manifested in the bookâ (TM)s presentation of a shamanâ (TM)s thoughts about an epidemic of curses, his counter-cursing rituals for Russians and ethnic Tuvans, and his dialogues with dead shamanic ancestors and spectres experiencing ideological tensions.

Author: Konstantinos Zorbas
ISBN-10: 1527564126
ISBN-13: 9781527564121
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 05/04/2021
Pages: 125
Format: Paperback