The Quest for the Shaman: Shape-Shifters, Sorcerers and Spirit Healers in Ancient Europe
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Here is an exciting, innovative study of ancient European religious practice and practitioners. The Aldhouse-Greens entertaining and informative book represents a search, a voyage of discovery in which evidence is sought that there were individuals living in Europe from the Stone Age to the early post-Roman period who believed they were able to liaise with the spirit-world through the medium of trance and who perceived themselves to be part-human and part-animal.The authors support their argument with diverse and rich evidence, including the 30,000-year-old lion-human ivory figurines found in south-western Germany, which may rep
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Manufacturer: Thames and Hudson
Release date: 13 June 2005
ISBN-10 : 0500051348 | ISBN-13: 9780500051344
Release date: 13 June 2005
ISBN-10 : 0500051348 | ISBN-13: 9780500051344
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