Hands — patterned emission
hands as practitioner action
This point marks the hands as the visible site of singing, blowing, brushing or other practitioner actions reported in ethnographic accounts. It is a practice-locus projection, not a claim that healing power is anatomically stored in the hands.
Point 4 of 6 in Shipibo Icaro Plant Paths
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Gebhart-Sayer, M. “The Geometric Designs of the Shipibo-Conibo in Ritual Context,” (scholarly_modern)
Documents Shipibo-Conibo design, healing and cosmological relations in ritual context; see the article’s discussion of geometric pattern, song and healing.
Luis Eduardo Luna and Steven F. White (eds.), Ayahuasca Reader (secondary)
Bernd Brabec de Mori, “About Musical Spirits and Powerful Sounds,” (scholarly_modern)