{"product_id":"the-quest-for-the-shaman-shape-shifters-sorcerers-and-spirit-healers-in-ancient-europe-0500051348","title":"The Quest for the Shaman: Shape-Shifters, Sorcerers and Spirit Healers in Ancient Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0500051348\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Miranda Aldhouse-Green\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is an exciting, innovative study of ancient European religious practice and practitioners. The Aldhouse-Greens entertaining and informative book represents a search, a voyage of discovery in which evidence is sought that there were individuals living in Europe from the Stone Age to the early post-Roman period who believed they were able to liaise with the spirit-world through the medium of trance and who perceived themselves to be part-human and part-animal.The authors support their argument with diverse and rich evidence, including the 30,000-year-old lion-human ivory figurines found in south-western Germany, which may represent monsters seen by shamans in altered states of consciousness; the newly discovered and spectacular Nebra sky-disc, which depicts the sun, moon and the Pleiades, indicating that Bronze Age shamans were using highly sophisticated objects to explore the heavens; and, the Doctors Grave from southeast England, which suggests that a Late Iron Age chieftain, who may have been a shaman, was sent to the Otherworld equipped with hallucinogens, medical kit and divining tools.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51525198872864,"sku":"NEW0500051348","price":115.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61nIp4rO4sL_e41b6021-9b05-4da4-ba0d-764cabc4afe8.jpg?v=1777143670","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-quest-for-the-shaman-shape-shifters-sorcerers-and-spirit-healers-in-ancient-europe-0500051348","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}