No Shaman
Shamanism is the foundation of Finnish Paganism and doesn’t exist in Norse culture.
The shaman, or tietäjä (“one who knows” in Finnish), originated in Siberia and became prevalent in Baltic regions of Finland, Estonia, and Karelia. The shaman became the foundation of Finnish paganism, which was the indigenous polytheistic religion of the land until Christianization.
Finnish Paganism, however, never had any connection or relation to Nors…
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