It was originally played as part of farm work, on rural holidays, at other village community-building events, and to accompany shamanistic rituals, mask dance dramas, and other types of performance.
en.wikipedia.org Here, they received instructions in mythology and the supposed origin of customs, such as the mortuary rites, shamanistic practices and puberty observances.
en.wikipedia.org Some of their yoiks were sung on shamanistic rites, this memory is conserved also in a folklore text (a shaman story).
en.wikipedia.org It is actually associated with shamanistic initiations and also with smith's world.
en.wikipedia.org Stylistically invariant since 1980, she writes about the female body in a deterministic, shamanistic, medieval manner.
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