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The Dark Tent Ritual
It is night in the taiga of the frozen north. The shaman has been bound and left alone inside a tent. You gather around it in the darkness. Sounds emerge.
Animal sounds.
They want to talk.
It is night in the taiga of the frozen north. The shaman has been bound and left alone inside a tent. You gather around it in the darkness. Sounds emerge.
Animal sounds.
They want to talk.
A paper last year examined this "dark tent ritual," which is found from western Siberia all the way to the American plains.
It combines new genetic studies with old methods to give a history to what some consider timeless--a shamanic ritual.
It combines new genetic studies with old methods to give a history to what some consider timeless--a shamanic ritual.
The author, Charles Stépanoff, believes it emerged in Siberia and crossed the Bering Strait with the Paleo-Eskimos.
This is the second wave of migration to America, which brought the Dorset and Saqqaq cultures, and very likely the Na-Dene language family.
This is the second wave of migration to America, which brought the Dorset and Saqqaq cultures, and very likely the Na-Dene language family.
