Wokece Magi Kai - What's That All About?

Pythagoras either makes up the word philosophy or is the first practitioner of philosophy. Empedocles who is strongly associated with the Pythagoreans of southern Italy also a philosopher also a wonder worker. Parmenides who writes a poem in which his hardcore metaphysics are given in the form of a journey into the underworld and coming back to instruct mankind. So it seems to me that the origins of one branch of what we call pre-seocratic philosophy is very much in this shamanism tradition if we want to call it that.