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The itako (then ita) are first referenced in poem #1773 of the ancient Nara period poem collection, the Man'yōshū. [11]: 2 Anthropologist Wilhem Schiffer describes a local legend about the practice of recruiting blind women into shamanism. According to this legend, the practice began in an undetermined era when blind children were killed ...
The Red Ocher people were an indigenous people of North America. A series of archaeological sites located in the Upper Great Lakes, the Greater Illinois River Valley, and the Ohio River Valley in the American Midwest have been discovered to be a Red Ocher burial complex, dating from 1000 BC to 400 BC, the Terminal Archaic – Early Woodland period.
Copper knife, spearpoints, awls, and spud, from the Late Archaic period, Wisconsin, 3000–1000 BC. In the classification of the archaeological cultures of North America, the Archaic period in North America, taken to last from around 8000 to 1000 BC [1] in the sequence of North American pre-Columbian cultural stages, is a period defined by the archaic stage of cultural development.
In the North American chronology the Archaic is known generally as the period from 11,500 to 3200 cal yr B.P. and is usually subdivided into three subperiods: Early Archaic (11,500-8900 cal yr B.P.), Middle Archaic (8900-5800 cal yr B.P.), and Late Archaic (5800-3200 cal yr B.P.). [3]
Both women, such as Uvavnuk, and men could become an angakkuq, [7] although it was rarer for women to do so. The process for becoming an angakkuq varied widely. The son of a current angakkuq might be trained by his father to become one as well. [8] A shaman might make a prophecy that a particular infant would become a prophet in adulthood. [9]
He was the first Oak Park officer killed in the line of duty since 1938. "This is the worst day of any chief of police," Johnson said. "Our police department, we're hurting right now.
A friend and classmate of 20-year-old Erin Edwards, who died last week in an apparent double murder-suicide, has spoken out on the victim's relationship with her mother, the primary suspect in her ...
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