Icaro voice gate
sung pattern and vocal transmission
The icaro is represented here through voice and patterned sound, while ethnographic descriptions vary in translation and ritual context. The throat anchor is a target-organ projection of a song practice, not an anatomical map of spirit transmission.
Point 2 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)