90:1.1 The [[shaman]] was the ranking [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_man medicine man], the ceremonial fetishman, and the [[focus]] [[personality]] for all the [[practices]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolutionary religion]. In many [[groups]] the [[shaman]] outranked the war chief, marking the beginning of the [[church]] [[domination]] of the [[state]]. The [[shaman]] sometimes [[functioned]] as a [[priest]] and even as a priest-king. Some of the later [[tribes]] had both the earlier shaman-medicine men (seers) and the later appearing shaman-[[priests]]. And in many cases the office of [[shaman]] became hereditary. | 90:1.1 The [[shaman]] was the ranking [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_man medicine man], the ceremonial fetishman, and the [[focus]] [[personality]] for all the [[practices]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolutionary religion]. In many [[groups]] the [[shaman]] outranked the war chief, marking the beginning of the [[church]] [[domination]] of the [[state]]. The [[shaman]] sometimes [[functioned]] as a [[priest]] and even as a priest-king. Some of the later [[tribes]] had both the earlier shaman-medicine men (seers) and the later appearing shaman-[[priests]]. And in many cases the office of [[shaman]] became hereditary. |