Earth-soul

Shadow, bone, and ground relation

The earth-soul marks a ground-facing relation involving shadow, ancestry, land, or the part of a person that can be endangered through spirit loss. Its lower-body placement is deliberately broad because these themes are distributed differently across Siberian and circumpolar traditions.

Head-soulHeart / rib-soulEarth-soulEarth-soul

Point 3 of 3 in Siberian Three Souls

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Roberte N. Hamayon, La chasse à l'âme (scholarly_modern)

Hamayon documents Siberian soul relations through hunting, land, ancestors, and ritual exchange; the earth-soul point is a comparative visual abstraction rather than a single ethnographic locus.

Mihály Hoppál, Shamanism: An Archaic Technique of Ecstasy (scholarly_modern)

Hoppál's comparative work informs the earth, shadow, and ancestral language used here; it does not prescribe a universal lower-abdominal coordinate.

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