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Childfree is a great idea, I don't think I've heard that term before. I think it defines, somewhat, my personal worldview, just maybe with an additional statement that there are enough children without parents in this world in case if I ever decide to be a parent. So, thank you for posting and reading the email.
Firstly, Orthodox Christmas, which should be closer to Siberian Shamanism (at least territorially) is not on Dec 25, but January 7. There is no Santa there either. And true Morozko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moroz) is blue, not red, also he's a New Year character.
Now, I really doubt Siberian shamans would celebrate anything during the last week of December :) -50 -60 C is not pleasant at all. The major celebration throughout the Siberia is on the first day of spring (which was, as far as I know, a new year's date for the rest of Russia until I think Peter the 1st. order).
So, while Catholic Christmas might be related to some fly agaric cult, it probably has nothing to do with Siberian Shamanism. Never trust astrologers!
Let me tell you another shaman story instead :)
I spend my childhood in a small village in Sakha Republic with a labor camp being major part of it. We used to have summer fires every year, I guess very close to California in this regard, if nothing burned in the village, then it was Taiga 100 miles down south. So, there was a two story building which was build on top of a shaman's burial. It burned every summer to the ground, was rebuilt to be burned the next year. This was going on for 3 years, until it was moved. Too bad that I was too young to look for/remember more details than this.
Childfree is a great idea, I don't think I've heard that term before. I think it defines, somewhat, my personal worldview, just maybe with an additional statement that there are enough children without parents in this world in case if I ever decide to be a parent. So, thank you for posting and reading the email.
Firstly, Orthodox Christmas, which should be closer to Siberian Shamanism (at least territorially) is not on Dec 25, but January 7. There is no Santa there either. And true Morozko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moroz) is blue, not red, also he's a New Year character.
Now, I really doubt Siberian shamans would celebrate anything during the last week of December :) -50 -60 C is not pleasant at all. The major celebration throughout the Siberia is on the first day of spring (which was, as far as I know, a new year's date for the rest of Russia until I think Peter the 1st. order).
So, while Catholic Christmas might be related to some fly agaric cult, it probably has nothing to do with Siberian Shamanism. Never trust astrologers!
Let me tell you another shaman story instead :)
I spend my childhood in a small village in Sakha Republic with a labor camp being major part of it. We used to have summer fires every year, I guess very close to California in this regard, if nothing burned in the village, then it was Taiga 100 miles down south. So, there was a two story building which was build on top of a shaman's burial. It burned every summer to the ground, was rebuilt to be burned the next year. This was going on for 3 years, until it was moved. Too bad that I was too young to look for/remember more details than this.
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