Siberian Shamans

Siberian shamans scared away evil spirits with equatorial shells

(ORDO NEWS) — The oldest means of payment was so popular among the inhabitants of Southern and Western Siberia that it was forged. In the middle of the last century, archaeologists found 14 cowrie shells in five burials of the 16th century at the Pachanga burial ground on the Ob. These burials were made by the Selkups – representatives of the indigenous, now small people of the north of Western…