Desde tiempos muy remotos hay descripciones de brujos y chamanes en
donde mientras estemos en contacto con la naturaleza todo va muy bien.
La religion llamese como se llame es la que corta el desarrollo de
todo lo que sea brujo y asi todo conocimiento queda cortado...como
cuando los españoles llegaron a las americas y combirtieron los
sitios de adoracion de diosas en sitios de adoracion de la virgen
(Ejemplo claro en Mexico).
en cuanto a la magia...esta sigue ocurriendo!
Un millon de estrellas!
Claudia/Nutria
No traducire el documento ya q no hay tiempo y en la parte inferior
esta la parte en latin...que demuestra nuestras raices!!!!!
Ha....pues a caminar!







Hello, everybody,

Here is an English translation from the Web of the earliest known
tale of Sami shamans among the Christians, written in Latin in the
1100's. Web site at
http://www.dur.ac.uk/medieval.www/sagaconf/tolley.htm .


Moreover their intolerable paganism, and the amount of devilish
superstition they practise in their magic, will seem credible to
almost no one. For there are some of them who are venerated as
prophets by the ignorant populace, since by means of an unclean
spirit that they call a gandus they predict many things to many
people, both as they are happening, and when delayed; and they draw
desirable things to themselves from far off regions in a wondrous
way, and amazingly, though themselves far away, they produce hidden
treasures.

By some chance while some Christians were sitting at the table
amongst the Sámi for the sake of trade their hostess suddenly bowed
over and died; hence the Christians mourned greatly, but were told by
the Sámi, who were not at all distressed, that she was not dead but
stolen away by the gandi of rivals, and they would soon get her back.
Then a magician stretched out a cloth, under which he prepared
himself for impious magic incantations, and with arms stretched up
lifted a vessel like a tambourine, covered in diagrams of whales and
deer with bridles and snow-shoes and even a ship with oars, vehicles
which that devilish gandus uses to go across the depths of snow and
slopes of mountains or the deep waters.

He chanted a long time and jumped about with this piece of equipment,
but then was laid flat on the ground, black all over like an
Ethiopian, and foaming from the mouth as if wearing a bit. His
stomach was ripped open and with the loudest roaring ever he gave up
the ghost.

Then they consulted the other one who was versed in magic about what
had happened to them both. He performed his job in a similar way but
not with the same outcome – for the hostess rose up hale – and
indicated that the deceased sorcerer had perished by the following
sort of accident: his gandus, transformed into the shape of a water
beast, had by ill luck struck against an enemy's gandus changed into
sharpened stakes as it was rushing across a lake, for the stakes
lying set up in the depths of that same lake had pierced his stomach,
as appeared on the dead magician at home.

Horum itaque intollerabilis perfidia vix cuiquam credibilis
videbitur, quantumve diabolicæ superstitionis in magica arte
exerceant. Sunt namque quidam ex ipsis, qui quasi prophetæ a stolido
vulgo venerantur, quoniam per immundum spiritum, quem gandum
vocitant, multis multa præsagia ut eveniunt quandoque percunctati
prædicent; et de longinquis provinciis res concupiscibiles miro modo
sibi alliciunt nec non absconditos thesauros longe remoti mirafice
produnt. Quadam vero vice dum christiani causa commercii apud Finnos
ad mensam sedissent, illorum hospita subito inclinata exspiravit;
unde christianis multum dolentibus non mortuam sed a gandis æmulorum
esse deprædatam, sese illam cito adepturos ipsi Finni nihil
contristati respondent. Tunc quidam magus extenso panno, sub [Storm
emends to super] quo se ad profanas veneficas incantationes præparat,
quoddam vasculum ad modum taratantarorum sursum erectis manibus
extulit, cetinis atque cervinis formulis cum loris et ondriolis
navicula etiam cum remis occupatum, quibus vehiculis per alta nivium
et devexa montium vel profunda stagnorum ille diabolicus gandus
uteretur. Cumque diutissime incantando tali apparatu ibi saltasset,
humo tandem prostratus totusque niger ut Æthiops, spumans ora ut puta
freneticus, præruptus ventrem vix aliquando cum maximo fremore emisit
spiritum. Tum alterum in magica arte peritissimum consuluerunt, quid
de utrisque actum sit. Qui simili modo sed non eodem eventu suum
implevit officium, namque hospita sana surrexit et defunctum magum
tali eventu interisse eis intimavit: gandum videlicet ejus in cetinam
effigiem inmaginatum ostico gando in præacutas sudes transformato,
dum per quoddam stagnum velocissime prosiliret, malo omine obviasse,
quia in stagni ejusdem profundo sudes latitantes exacti ventrem
perforabant; quod et in mago domi mortuo apparuit.