Shamans of the highest virtue from all quarters, and students, inquirers wishing to find out truth and the grounds of it, all resort to these monasteries.

Beyond this there were only shamans for certain purposes of magic.

And I wandered alone in the blackness of night to the river bank, where was wind-moaning and sobbing of water, and where I sought wisdom from the ghosts of old shamans in the trees and dead and gone.

"Thou art a great man, Scundoo, a shaman of shamans.

"With my own hands I slew him, who was a greater shaman than Skolka, our own shaman.

Henceforth shall I be both chief and shaman to you, O my people.