Shamanen zu 2003

Geschrieben von franz_liszt am 04. Januar 2003 17:05:36:

Hi Foris,

auf Ellies Seite hab ich folgende News gefunden - der Inhalt mag seriös sein, die Form ist es nicht. Man muss sich schon durch den rhetorischen Dschungel zu den Aussagen der Shamanen vorarbeiten :(

Gruß franz_liszt

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Shaman predicts Iraq war
Mon Dec 30, 5:38 PM ET


By Jude Webber

LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - A Peruvian shaman seeking to divine the future has
staged an elaborate ritual with potions, skulls and incantations, and come
up with what many people have gathered from watching television -- war with
Iraq is almost certain in 2003.

Juan Osco, dubbed the "Shaman of the Andes," led six other poncho-clad
soothsayers in a New Year's ritual of invoking the gods, spitting and
spraying garishly coloured potions and strewing flower petals to the beats of
drums and rattles on a hill overlooking Lima decked with skulls, shells and
beads.

The shamans, from various parts of Peru, gathered on Sunday night to drink
potions made of the hallucinogenic tropical vine ayahuasca and the cactus
San Pedro -- brews which they say tap into the spiritual and allow
"maestros" to see the future.

Then, in Monday's brilliant sunshine with their charms laid out on the ground
and fragrant smoke filling the air, they gathered with hands outstretched to
the sky to urge the gods to grant a peaceful 2003. Onlookers watched,
mostly bemused.

The omens are not good. "War (in Iraq) is almost inevitable, that's what the
United States wants," said the black-bearded Osco, wearing colourful
poncho, a black hat and a necklace of large lizard's teeth to ward off evil.

"Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) is strong ... He won't just want to give
up. There won't be a winner. A lot of innocent lives will be lost." He added
"new types of chemical weapons" would be used.

Osco, who says he is president of a 150-strong association of shamans,
said he saw more fatal street protests against Venezuela's Hugo Chavez --
an opposition strike that has shut down shipments from the world's No. 5 oil
exporter is now in its fourth week -- before the populist president caved in.

"Hugo Chavez is going to give in to the will of the people. He'll call early
elections for May, June or July," he said.

In North Korea (news - web sites), Osco saw "a very delicate situation,"
though not yet war, after the secretive Stalinist state said it was throwing
out international nuclear weapons inspectors.

As for the U.S.-led war on terror, the shamans beat and set fire to an effigy
of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), the Saudi-born militant whose al
Qaeda network is blamed for the September 11 attacks in the United States
and other strikes, in a symbolic punishment.

But Osco said: "He (bin Laden) won't be captured or handed over to the
United States. He's going to remain a mystery."

The shamans also cast petals over photographs of famous people --
including Brazilian (news - web sites) soccer star Ronaldo and Zarai,
Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo's newly acknowledged teen-age
daughter -- to bring them good fortune in 2003.

Osco, who says there are 4,000 shamans in this Andean country where
traditional spiritualism coexists with fervent Roman Catholicism, said his
2002 forecasts were 80 percent accurate, but stressed: "We're not
infallible."



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