The Story of a Shaman Drum
.... Whether my father got it from the Selsoviet (village Soviet), or Kondrat himself gave or sold (drank away, to be more exact) it to him I don’t know. Given the overall picture of those years, this act would not look too blasphemous. In the 1920s, shamanism in the Altai blossomed but when collectivization started, the Altai natives began to abandon their faith in great numbers. They stopped sacrificing domestic animals and hang their hides on poles (such a hide with a skull – taelga – is an ...
Modified: 30.08.2010Altai , shamanism , drums , G.M. Kozintsev , L.Z. Trauberg , cinema , Alone
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