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The bachelor ́s thesis deals with the introduction into study olonkho. It focuses on the description of olonkho as a genre and on presentation of the particular examples. The first part deals with the comparison of the features of more olonkhos. These features are later systematised. The second part presents olonkho on examples from the exerpts from the text Модун Эр Соҕотох Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This thesis deals with the shamanism and with the initiations of the shamans. In the first part the author describes these initiations at large and evokes the phenomenon of shamanism in general. The following part pursues the descriptions of the initiations in different places in the world. The selected cultures in this thesis present the traditional communities where the shamanism has a fixed position in their social structure. The author approaches the processes of initiation of shaman in the five ethnic groups of the three continents. He starts with the description of the three Siberian ethnic groups, than he continues with the North American one and he finishes with the South American one. The author emphasizes the way of the election of shaman, how and when these elections are created, and the process of the initiation ? he focuses on the visions and the rituals. In the final part of the thesis the author compares the initiations of particular cultures. These comparisons are based on the social relations between the shaman and the community.