The 2,500-Year-Old Frozen Woman Found In Siberia — And The Secrets Hidden Inside The Ice Maiden’s Tomb
The Pazyryk world was one in which shamanic or shamanistic practices are plausibly attested.
The cannabis use that Herodotus described and that the archaeological evidence supports is consistent with the psychoactive plant use documented in Siberian shamanic traditions.
The elaborate animal-spirit imagery of Pazyryk art — the hybrid creatures, the predator-prey relationships, the dynamic intertwining of different animal natures — reflects a worldview in which animal spirits are important presences, consistent with shamanic traditions in which spirit animals are central.
The specific evidence from the Ice Maiden’s burial that is most often cited in favor of the shamanic interpretation:
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