Tadibya (''tádyebya''; russian: тадебя) is the mediator between the ordinary world and the upper- and
underworld
The underworld, also known as the netherworld or hell, is the supernatural world of the dead in various religious traditions and myths, located below the world of the living. Chthonic is the technical adjective for things of the underworld.
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s of the spirits among the
Nenets people
The Nenets ( yrk, ненэй ненэче, ''nenəj nenəče'', russian: ненцы, ''nentsy''), also known as Samoyed, are a Samoyedic peoples, Samoyedic ethnic group native to northern Arctic Russia, Russian Far North (Russia), Far North. Acco ...
. The Nenets rank their
shaman
Shamanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with what they believe to be a spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. The goal of this is usually to direct spirits or spiritu ...
s by their spiritual attachment and function as well as their experience.
Categories
The following categories of Nenets shamans are listed by Mihaly Hoppal, who cites research conducted by L. Khomitch and Leonid A. Lar.
[Hoppál, Mihály: ''Sámánok Eurázsiában''. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 2005]
* ''Vidutana'', strong shamans standing in contact with the upper world
* ''Yanyani tadebya'', shamans belonging to the earth
* ''Sambana'' shamans, shamans able to
receive messages from dead people and to perform other
rituals
A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or objects, performed according to a set sequence. Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including a religious community. Rituals are characterized, ...
concerning the dead.
References
External links
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''The Process of Education of the Nenets Shamans'', by Leonid A. Lar*
''The Nenets Shamans'', by Leonid A. Lar
Nenets people
Religious occupations
Siberian shamanism
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