A Comparative Study of Inuit and Ancient Hungarian Shamanism

Abstract

In my thesis, I am going to deal with the environmental circumstances that contributed to the development of shamanism on both sides. These bodies of beliefs should not be called primitive because they are reality, adopted stongly to the given circumstances, which originates from Nature. As Natives and Hungarians were both nomad communities in the beginning, their way of thinking and rituals were affected but not neccessariliy determined by environmental conditions.