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<blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8411898" data-attributes="member: 6803643"><p>It really depends on a lot of factors we don't really have full answers to. Is Shaman a Tungusic word or is it ultimately from Sanskrit? Are we talking about what the word Shaman has become in the English language (a hodgepodge catch all for priests and holy people that are not from one of the imperial cultures we study in World History)? Or are we talking about specific Tungusic holy people from whence the term entered the language? </p><p></p><p>Are we saying Druid in the very specific, Brittano-Gaulo-Belgic sense that Julius Caesar wrote about them, or are we talking about the priestly class across Celtic cultures? Or are we talking about nature priest animal skin-changers? Because those are very much a modern invention, but very much part of the word's identity now. </p><p></p><p>I'd argue that Shaman is a more problematic term because it's a word used in modern day English to denigrate and otherise sacred traditions of cultures the English speaker knows little about, whether they be from Siberia or South America or sub-Saharan Africa or Australia or among the first nations of North America, etc. Meanwhile, Druid has particular meaning in the cultural heritage of the remaining Celtic nations of Britain, Eire, Cymru, Alba, Kernow, Breizh, and Galiza, but is not used to refer to modern-day religious practitioners as the religion was replaced by Christianity centuries ago. The term IS used by Neo-Pagan and Neo-Druidic societies like OBOD, but these groups are similarly creating new definitions for these terms that have little if any continuity with the original Bards, Wates, and Druids of Ancient Celtic religious and scholarly life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marandahir, post: 8411898, member: 6803643"] It really depends on a lot of factors we don't really have full answers to. Is Shaman a Tungusic word or is it ultimately from Sanskrit? Are we talking about what the word Shaman has become in the English language (a hodgepodge catch all for priests and holy people that are not from one of the imperial cultures we study in World History)? Or are we talking about specific Tungusic holy people from whence the term entered the language? Are we saying Druid in the very specific, Brittano-Gaulo-Belgic sense that Julius Caesar wrote about them, or are we talking about the priestly class across Celtic cultures? Or are we talking about nature priest animal skin-changers? Because those are very much a modern invention, but very much part of the word's identity now. I'd argue that Shaman is a more problematic term because it's a word used in modern day English to denigrate and otherise sacred traditions of cultures the English speaker knows little about, whether they be from Siberia or South America or sub-Saharan Africa or Australia or among the first nations of North America, etc. Meanwhile, Druid has particular meaning in the cultural heritage of the remaining Celtic nations of Britain, Eire, Cymru, Alba, Kernow, Breizh, and Galiza, but is not used to refer to modern-day religious practitioners as the religion was replaced by Christianity centuries ago. The term IS used by Neo-Pagan and Neo-Druidic societies like OBOD, but these groups are similarly creating new definitions for these terms that have little if any continuity with the original Bards, Wates, and Druids of Ancient Celtic religious and scholarly life. [/QUOTE]
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