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To become one of these people, initiates in one region perform a ritual to open up the "gates of speech," or malmun ("MAHL-moon"). Some of these people conduct performances of bon-puri "origin songs." (0[1])That ritual (20[1])is the naerim type of the gut ("goot") rituals performed by a group of these (20[1])people, who are mostly women known as mu ("moo"). Examples (20[1])of these people (20[1]0[1])known as noaidi among the Sámi wield painted (20[1])(*) drums (10[3])and accompany the singing (10[2]0[1])of (0[2])yoiks. The word for these people (0[1])comes from the language of the (10[1])Siberian (10[1])Evenki (10[1]0[1])people, (10[2])whose example of these figures (10[1])may ride to the sky on reindeer (0[1])and birds and enter namesake trances. (10[3])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[1]0[1])name these pan-cultural (10[1])people (10[1])often (10[1])conflated with (10[1])medicine (10[1])men (10[1])who (10[1])commune (10[1])with spirits and (10[1])ancestors. (10[1]0[1])■END■ (10[9]0[3])

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