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shamanistic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Tungusic *samān Evenki сама̄н (samān)bor. Russian шама́н (šamán)bor. German Schamanebor. English shaman Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -istic English shamanistic From shaman + -istic.

Meanings

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of shamanism.
   • From Christ to the Fisher King of the Grail legends, the man suffering from a magical wound is no ordinary man; he is the man who has transcended the duality of sexuality, the man with a vulva, the shamanistic androgyne. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 109:
   • There are an estimated 300 shamanistic temples within an hour of Seoul’s bustling city center, and in them, shamans perform their clamorous ceremonies every day. 2007 July 7, Choe Sang-Hun, “Shamanism Enjoys Revival in Techno-Savvy South Korea”, in New York Times:
   • In this film Ute Gebhardt looks at shamanistic healing rituals in Tuwa, which today is part of the Russian Federation. In Tuwa shamanism was able to survive five and a half decades of Soviet communism. Even today there is a shamanistic clinic in Tuwa’s capital Kyzyl. 2009 December, Günter Nyul, “The Neutral in biodynamic cranio-sacral osteopathy – an extraordinary state of consciousness”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 02 Mar 2024, page 15:

Forms

Deriveds

nonshamanistic · shamanistically · neoshamanistic · technoshamanistic

Relateds

shamanism · shamanist · shamanic

Translations (7)

fr chamanistique (of or pertaining to shamanism) · es chamanístico (of or pertaining to shamanism) · fi shamanistinen (of or pertaining to shamanism) · pt xamanístico (of or pertaining to shamanism) · pl szamanistyczny (of or pertaining to shamanism) · da shamanistisk (of or pertaining to shamanism) · fi šamanistinen (of or pertaining to shamanism)