Heart / rib-soul
Life-breath · embodied vitality
This heart/rib station represents life-breath and embodied vitality in the trunk, where comparative ethnographies often describe the felt centre of living presence. It intentionally uses two body terms because Siberian traditions vary, and it should not be mistaken for one standard organ-soul doctrine.
Point 2 of 3 in Siberian Three Souls
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (secondary)
Eliade's comparative treatment of breath, life, and soul travel supplies context for a trunk-centred vitality station; it does not define a pan-Siberian heart/rib soul.
Roberte N. Hamayon, La chasse à l'âme (scholarly_modern)
Hamayon's Siberian analysis supports the relational life-force framing, while this heart/rib coordinate remains an editorial comparison.