Sentence examples for shaman of from inspiring English sources

I was a shaman of sorts".

Such are the instruments of the shaman of Sullivan Street.

Her grandfather was the shaman of his small Siberian village.

The shaman of Paris — with his sorceress wife/muse, Michèle Lamy — designs for the most loyal band of followers around.

Jack is the shaman of a Celtic bull-cult, losing its rites in the face of Chapel fervour.

The future shaman of the Altai Kizhi was subjected to terrible torture until, finally, he grasped the drum and began to act as a shaman.

One anthropological account of the shamans of the Oraon peoples of northeast India describes the shamanic view of Western medical traditions as a pragmatic resource perhaps just psychopomp of a different sort, but harmless at worst.

Where all the teases and all the risks pay off, for me, is in the shadow-story of the man who "looked after the Edge" so long ago, the solitary artist-shaman of the ice age.

She learned the same lesson in different ways, she says, from the monks of Tibet and the shamans of Brazil.

Tan's claim, of course, is that his music does emerge from his experience, from the ghost stories, Buddhist prayers and village shamans of his youth.

Religious processions and Carnival became sources for innovators like Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica, shamans of Brazilian postwar art, and for contemporaries like Ernesto Neto, whose work invites audience participation, too.