Shamans of Ancient Iranian Nomads: Artifacts and Iconography (2017) By Sergey Yatsenko

https://www.academia.edu/35755340/Shamans_of_Ancient_Iranian_Nomads_Artifacts_and_Iconography_2017_?nav_from=e5a6ea1c-6c7b-40e3-8259-35f6e3ae3bb0 The interpretation of depictions in petroglyphs belonging to the Bronze Age in South Siberia as shamanic ones is debatable. Obviously, cultic attributes belonging to men were not removed from barrows 2 and 5 in Pazyryk. Their series can be compared with complexes (known to ethnologists) belonging to shamans of Iranian peoples. Such elements of practicing sequential shamanic rituals as divination, use of musical instruments, entering into a trance state, summoning patron spirits and their “feeding”, exorcism of evil spirits can be reconstructed. Keywords: Indo-Iranian shamanism, Pazyryk culture shamans, shamans images, South Siberia, material culture