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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9298517" data-attributes="member: 58172">Heh, it is what it is.In the Nordic Lands, the ONLY kind of formal religious leader is the shamanic (Norse vǫlva, Sámi noaidi, Finnish noita). Anything else is a family tradition in ones own home.Nordic people come to the shamanic with same kinds of questions that people today to go to &quot;psychics&quot; with, and these questions get answered in similar ways, with second sight (ófreski) and intuitions, and various trance inducing techniques.Where other cultures have &quot;priests&quot;, the Nordics have these sacred shamanic psychics.The Sámi are famous for their divination drum. It works similarly to ouija board, but the drum beats bounce the pointer around, across various cosmological symbols drawn on the drum surface. The pointed symbols are interpreted in the context of the question. Toward the North, only the noaidi uses the drum and for the sake of the community. Toward the South, almost every family has their own drum. In all cases, the entire family or the entire community participates in the spontaneous chanting to mindfully focus on the drummer and drum, to answer a question. No two drums have identical symbols, as each family has its own tradition, but there tend to be regional similarities. These drum symbols give a reasonably clear depiction of the cosmology. The cosmos divides into sky beings, land beings, and underworld beings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9298517, member: 58172"] Heh, it is what it is. In the Nordic Lands, the ONLY kind of formal religious leader is the shamanic (Norse vǫlva, Sámi noaidi, Finnish noita). Anything else is a family tradition in ones own home. Nordic people come to the shamanic with same kinds of questions that people today to go to "psychics" with, and these questions get answered in similar ways, with second sight (ófreski) and intuitions, and various trance inducing techniques. Where other cultures have "priests", the Nordics have these sacred shamanic psychics. The Sámi are famous for their divination drum. It works similarly to ouija board, but the drum beats bounce the pointer around, across various cosmological symbols drawn on the drum surface. The pointed symbols are interpreted in the context of the question. Toward the North, only the noaidi uses the drum and for the sake of the community. Toward the South, almost every family has their own drum. In all cases, the entire family or the entire community participates in the spontaneous chanting to mindfully focus on the drummer and drum, to answer a question. No two drums have identical symbols, as each family has its own tradition, but there tend to be regional similarities. These drum symbols give a reasonably clear depiction of the cosmology. The cosmos divides into sky beings, land beings, and underworld beings. [/QUOTE]

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