YGWV
bryan_thx wrote:
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> As for what the shaman would do on such a day, I think it would be
> more challening when seperated from most of his people. To contact
> the ancestor spirits surely it helps to be on ground holy to
> them....which would probably be the tula? And to have 'things' in
> which there were interested, like a crowd of their descendants?
>
I think that the basic response is that he would do whatever he normally
does. That is, he sits down and does the ancestor Ritual. He knows that
sometimes it is easy, sometime hard, sometimes even fails when he is
there with all the people. He knows ways to work harder, but doesn't
have to use them all the time.
I think that missing actual spirit world contact with Ancestors once
would be lonely and mildly worrisome. But I think that some of the
Sararites/Orlanthi are used to being away from their family for years,
both physical and spiritual. So it might not be a problem, or at least,
not a crisis, for quite a while.
--
Greg Stafford
President, Issaries. Inc.
Love without reserve,
Enjoy without restraint,
Live without dead time.
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