A shaman makes art to heal themselves. The process of making art is the process of seeing into visionary space, the same process shamans use to see as they heal.
Shamans also can use art to heal the people they are working with. Other shaman’s powers include diagnosing and curing sickness, predicting and controlling the weather, bringing animals into the range of hunters finding lost objects, seeing into the past and future and interceding with spirits in other worlds.
Traditional shamans were trained in the use of culturally inherited techniques that enabled the group to give tangible form to their dreams and visions.
Art at the earliest stages of human culture is meant to communicate. In cultures such as those of Inuit anybody could see spirits, but the shaman saw them most clearly.
In Eskimo culture shamans knew quite a few tricks; they could supposedly survive severe burns, being thrown bound by hand and foot into the sea, speared through the stomach without a mark of the experience.
Art of shaman
Diocletian: Architect of Reform and Controversy in the Roman Empire
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Diocletian, born Diocles on December 22, 244 AD, in the Roman province of
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