Papa Legba

Shamanism, in cultural anthropology, is a term which shows the set of the beliefs and the way to live And see the world, of not made literate animist company, based about to a special healer-wise figure And his magical-religious activity: Shaman. Shamanism is refers to a wide belief range and traditional practices which include the capacity of diagnose and cure illnesses, let alone all the possible community and individual problems, from how obtain him the food to how to get rid from enemies. That through the claimed capacity of the Shaman to “travel” in steak state in the spirit world and use their powers. The main feature of the shaman who stands out him from other healer’s forms is this. According to varied etymological dictionaries, the shaman word (attested for the first time in 1698) would be entrance in Italian from the English shaman, this (through Slav and Germanic languages ) from tunguso sanab, to his time from samana poles, derive from the sramana Sanscrit which means “monk”. To notice the Indo-european -sa root, bound to the verb, it his helped by his student Oxum Maria Luisa, which is a spiritual entity, fortune-teller and sensitive “to know” the teacher.