Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka
October 21, 2026
Zbigniew Kopeć
The subject of this article is the presentation of Siberian shamanism and shamans in Polish journalism over the last hundred years. In most of the discussed texts, the topic accompanies the following themes: fleeing the civil war in Siberia – Przez kraj ludzi, zwierząt i bogów (Konno przez Azję Centralną) (Over the land of people, animals and gods [On horseback over Central Asia]) from 1923 by...
Бюллетень Калмыцкого научного центра Российской академии наук
October 19, 2026
Saidara Khomus
The article analyzes the shamanic ritual of requesting a child’s soul from the deity Aiyysyt in the traditional culture of the northern Yakuts. The relevance of the study is conditioned by the need to examine the regional specificity of ritual practice, which has preserved unique forms of existence due to the geographical isolation of the northern uluses, as well as by the importance of...
Бюллетень Калмыцкого научного центра Российской академии наук
October 19, 2026
Mariia Petrova
Goals. The article aims to analyze the functioning of сүнс concept in the works of twenty-first century Mongolian authors. In recent times, modern Mongolian writers and poets have frequently incorporated images of various demonological figures into their texts. In our view, this stems from a desire to engage the reader by offering something mysterious, inexplicable, or supernatural....
Time and Mind
October 15, 2026
James Hampson
How can hunter-gatherer worldviews be gleaned from the archaeological record? By intertwining archaeological and ethnographic studies, this article considers the relationships between rock paintings and quartz in several regions of the Americas, Europe, Australia, and Southern Africa. It demonstrates that concepts of animism, shamanism, and neurology explain at least some of the similarities in...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 13, 2026
Begzod Xomitaliyev
preprint
This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the tree cult in Turkic mythology from cosmological, religious, and social perspectives. The study examines the relationship between the tree cult and the tripartite model of the universe, its role in totemism and shamanism, and the processes of transformation in the post-Islamic period based on scholarly sources. It also explores the semantic...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 8, 2026
Nicola Scarcella
preprint
From Functional Semiotics to Mythological Epiphenomena: An Ecosemiotic and Materialist Hypothesis on the Genesis, Coercion, and Fossilization of Transgenerational Wisdom in the Near Eastern and Aegean Quadrant (45 ka BP – II Millennium BC) ABSTRACT (Inglese):This paper proposes a new interpretive hypothesis challenging the traditional, non-materialist epistemological paradigms that...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 7, 2026
Jeong-jae Lee
preprint
Where Do We Go When We Fall Asleep? — On the Boundaries of Reality Shaped by the Five Senses is a philosophical and speculative essay that reconsiders the conventional distinction between dreams and reality. The essay begins with a simple question: Why do we regard only the world experienced while awake as reality? It proposes that the five senses may function not only as windows onto reality,...
Jurnal Penelitian Humaniora
October 3, 2026
Faninda Wahyu Khaerani, Syahrul Hidayat, Fardh Aulia Hakim et al.
This study examines the representation of dandyism through shamanic and spiritual figures in the films Exhuma, The Wailing, and The Divine Fury, using Elisabeth Amann’s (2015) framework of the Three Imaginations: paranoid, catastrophic, and anachronic imagination. Employing a qualitative approach, the study analyzes visual and textual data from the films using Spradley’s data analysis...
Философия и культура
October 1, 2026
Pavel Sergeevich Kiriltsev
The subject of this study is omission as an intentional, culturally marked absence of a significant element within a mythological or ritual system, which is recognised by participants in the tradition and regulates access to names, knowledge, ritual experience and sacred boundaries. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the productive nature of such an absence as a means of organising...
October 1, 2026
Adelaida Barros
This book is an ethnography on Mapuche ritual healing transformations from the perspective of the phenomenology of the body. It explores how people identify a Mapuche shaman, or a “real Machi”, a person who can see illness and misfortune through divinatory techniques. These techniques produce changes in bodily and affective experience, which are not mediated by reconfigurations of symbolic...