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Mircea Eliade - On Siberian shamanism Out of body to last heaven
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Mircea Eliade – Shamanism Archaic techniques of ecstasy
The Ostyak also believe that the gods look for the child’s future in a Book of Fate; according to the legends of the Siberian Tatars, seven gods write the destiny of newborn infants in a book of life. But all these images derive from the Mesopotamian concept of the seven planetary heavens regarded as a Book of Fate. We have mentioned them … because the shaman, when he reaches the summit of the cosmic tree in the last heaven, also … asks the future of the community and the fate of the soul