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Trenton Webb reviewed Shaman for Arcane magazine, rating it a 5 out of 10 overall. [1] According to Webb, the book "rewrites the earth magic AD&D rules. Out go the pilfered priests spells and mumbo jumbo of the Barbarian's and Humanoid's Handbooks, and in comes a batch of very different magic and brand-new mumbo jumbo."
Pali samaṇa has been suggested as the ultimate origin of the word Evenki сама̄н (samān) "shaman", possibly via Middle Chinese or Tocharian B; however, the etymology of this word, which is also found in other Tungusic languages, is controversial (see Shamanism § Etymology).
The shaman's role is to restore harmony within the individual and the community, reinforcing the social bonds believed to influence health. Joralemon emphasizes that in both traditional and modern medical practices, disease is not merely a biological fact but a social phenomenon, shaped by the cultural and societal contexts in which it occurs .
The name Humbaba (Ḫumbaba) first occurs as an ordinary personal name in documents from the Ur III period. [2] The modern spelling reflects the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian copies of the Epic of Gilgamesh, where it is consistently written in cuneiform as Ḫum-ba-ba, [1] but this variant is not attested before the first millennium BCE. [3]
Alias: Transformations: Wanna → Wana; Cryptor → Crypt0r; Cryptor → Decryptor; Cryptor → Crypt → Cry; Addition of "2.0" Short names: Wanna → WN → W