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Appendix: The Poetic Vision of Setuuma, Guajiro Shaman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Michel Perrin
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Diogenes , Volume 40 , Issue 158 , June 1992 , pp. 181 - 184
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Copyright © 1992 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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1. The Guajiro people live in extreme northern South America, on territory locat ed in parts of both Colombia and Venezuela. The following text is an excerpt from a long history of a shaman's life that was compiled by the author in 1973 and pub lished in Les Practiciens du rêve (Perrin, 1992). This work brings to light the ultimate harmony of the many aspects of shamanic life: vocation, initiation, drug use, the third sex, communication with the otherworld, the cost of the cure, etc.

2. This text in its entirety can be found, in both French and Guajiro, in the doctor al dissertation La Penseé Mythique en actes, Université Paris V, 1987.