Something about Shamanism

Shamanism is type of religious mentality of the primitive people based on faith in spirits inhabiting all kinds of the universe things and meddling in people's life.
The main figure of shamanism is shaman - the first priest in human history, mediator between the world of peoples and world of spirits. During the speсial rite - "kamlaniye" shaman went into ecstasies and was carried away into another world where he could contact with spirits and got help from them for his own tribes.

After the Soviet Power was established in Siberia the big antireligious company was began. The Shamans were prohibited to exercise their ritual. Their atributes and holy things were destroyed.

As the result of the late of 30th the active shaman practice was interrupted. Right now the last great Siberian shaman could be seen on the old photos been made during ethnographic expeditions of 20-th, 30-th.