Zaki: Difference between revisions

From The SpiritWiki
(Created page with " <blockquote class="definition">'''Zaki''' is a term used by the Otomi to refer to the life force inherent in all things. <ref>Dow, James. The Shaman’s Touch. Salt Lake...")
 
No edit summary
Line 1: Line 1:


<blockquote class="definition">'''Zaki''' is a term used by the [[Otomi]] to refer to the life force inherent in all things. <ref>Dow, James. The Shaman’s Touch. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1986.</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote class="definition">'''Zaki''' is a term used by the [[Otomi]] to refer to the life/will force inherent in all things. <ref>Dow, James. The Shaman’s Touch. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1986.</ref></blockquote>


==Syncretic Terms==
==Syncretic Terms==
Line 7: Line 7:


==Notes==
==Notes==
Otomi Shaman's help clients manipulate will by providing Zaki figures. One Otomi shaman gives a women whose husband deserted her a ''zaki'' portrait. The portrait is placed on an altar with a candle, and is used to focus the women's will on the return of her husband. <ref>Dow, James. The Shaman’s Touch. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1986.</ref> 


{{endstuff}}
{{endstuff}}


[[category:terms]][[Is a syncretic term::Force| ]]
[[category:terms]][[Is a syncretic term::Force| ]]

Revision as of 21:54, 9 March 2020

Zaki is a term used by the Otomi to refer to the life/will force inherent in all things. [1]

Syncretic Terms

Force > Imagination, Mana, Miwi, Nu Shug, Orenda, Perspective, Prana, Wakan, Will, Yang, Zaki

Notes

Otomi Shaman's help clients manipulate will by providing Zaki figures. One Otomi shaman gives a women whose husband deserted her a zaki portrait. The portrait is placed on an altar with a candle, and is used to focus the women's will on the return of her husband. [2]

Footnotes

  1. Dow, James. The Shaman’s Touch. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1986.
  2. Dow, James. The Shaman’s Touch. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1986.