Heart and Soul: Future shaman
The Documentary Podcast
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The Importance of Rituals
As an ego he has to memorise thousands of lines of verse. Anyone who goes to a funeral or is present at a death must be cleansed by Alo through before they return home, for fear the spirits will do them and their family terrible harm. Cipa isn't reading from any script. He knows all these chants off by heart. Without ego I think there is no existence of ith Meashmi actually. And this is only a short ritual, three to four hours. Some of the rituals Cipa officiates over a four days of almost solid chanting and he memorises the whole lot. That's Cipa rubbing two swords together as he walks around the
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