Suit Shaman

Teacher shaman helps his disciple to produce a shamanic costume and teaches him the basic techniques of exclamations.

Costumes shamans from different nations are different. As an example, a description of the Siberian shaman's costume:"The dress was a shaman's coat of dressed leather, the front is so short that does not cover the knees and back a long, almost to the ground, on the edges and across the surface of the coat, but only from behind, stitched a sort of fringe of the beams thinly sliced rovduga, these straps are attached rattles and glands of various shapes with special names, places, and partly symbolic meanings.

Kaftan front smooth and is fastened on the chest strap laces, and fastens under the neck to buckle. He sewed the front figures of animals, birds, fish, animals, all kinds of plaques, emblems j celestial bodies, as well as pieces of iron, representing part of the human skeleton and viscera. In the north, in the absence of the above-described suit wearing fur, dressed in calf leather coat , wool outwards, which sometimes hang behind some of the more important pieces of iron, such as: both"sun"fish, sometimes in places where women are breast, hung two round tins Organization, which should represent them. At the head of the North put on a female road cap with headphones. The general belief, the piece of metal and trinket shaman dresses tend not to rust and have a soul"(DV Kandyba. Russian hypnosis. M., publ"PCB", 1995, pp. 20 -21).

"main part shamanic paraphernalia - diamonds - most often done for a young shaman, as his teacher. In the Siberian shamans, for example,"Diamonds are always ovoid, its rim is made of old,

dried on the stump deciduous tree, of the best parts of this tree, called the"fin"; the outside rim of a drum decorated with seven, nine and eleven angular protuberances, covered with the same skin, which will fit the whole drum (with the skin should be a three-year bull) in diamond belts are tied to an iron cross in the middle of the circle with the cross members or to the cross, during which iron shaman prodevshi fingers into the holes, holding a tambourine.

Inside the drum, along the rim, especially where the straps are tied -"tie , hangs a set of bells, bells, iron and bone rattles, obedient to the slightest movement of the shaman-artist. In his left hand shaman takes a little, slightly curved wooden mallet, leather and mares or reindeer legs ..."