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shaman

[shah-muhn, shey-, sham-uhn] / ˈʃɑ mən, ˈʃeɪ-, ˈʃæm ən /
NOUN
religious specialist
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The right side of the narrow interior is a brick wall devoted to paintings of an Aztec god and a shaman by Washington street artist Jah One.

From Washington Post

“And it became one of the most iconic images of the film where he’s wearing this moth, becoming almost like a shaman.”

From Los Angeles Times

One of the six, buried with ritualistic items suggesting he may have been a shaman, had ancient Northeast Asian ancestry—the westernmost example of this lineage yet found.

From Science Magazine

Critics suggested Mr. Yoon was influenced in part by shamans who believe the Blue House is infected by negative energy known here as pengsu.

From Washington Times

What kind of magician was my new friend Ononti, the shaman with a spirit husband and children in the underworld—her relationship with them so intense that her marriage among the living had collapsed?

From Scientific American