Calypso and Other Ancient Greek “Shamans”
A number of attempts have been made to sum up data in ancient Greek sources under the label “shamanism.” Erwin Rohde, Eric R. Dodds, Francis M. Cornford and others have discussed the topic, and Mircea Eliade duly refers to them. However, the final judgment is not clear as to whether or not we once h...
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| Language: | English |
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Molnar & Kelemen Oriental Publ.
2018
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Shaman
Year: 2018, Volume: 26, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 133-140 |
| Summary: | A number of attempts have been made to sum up data in ancient Greek sources under the label “shamanism.” Erwin Rohde, Eric R. Dodds, Francis M. Cornford and others have discussed the topic, and Mircea Eliade duly refers to them. However, the final judgment is not clear as to whether or not we once had shamans in ancient Greece. Hungarian shamanologists pay much attention to the term rejt, rejtőzik “to hide, to be hiding”, connected with the oldest vocabulary of shamanism among the Hungarians from a thousand years ago. This is the reason why I start with the well-known name of the Homeric nymph, Calypso, that means “the hiding, the hidden one.” |
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| ISSN: | 1216-7827 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Shaman
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