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Culture summaryessay 1997 • Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam
Yakut • Asia > North Asia
This is a culture summary of the Yakut....Flights of the sacredarticle 1996 • Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam
Yakut • Asia > North Asia
This is an article on bird symbolism in Sakha (Yakut) shamanism. Birds and other animals are spirit helpers of shamans, and in some cases are also the doubles of the shaman, whose soul is carried by birds or is temporarily transformed into a bird. Th...