On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:39:55 GMT, "Rick Sobie"
<ricksobie@spamnotshaw.ca> wrote:

}  I have netioned before
} that it had Shamanic roots, 

It originated in Siberia?

"Shaman" is a Tungusk word for a Tungusk cultural concept. Anyone who
applies it to any concept from any other culture is wrong.