High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Shamanism in various cultures shows great diversity. In some cultures, the music related to shamanistic beliefs or practice may intentionally mimic natural sounds, sometimes with onomatopoiea. Of course, in several cultures, imitation of natural sounds may serve other functions, not necessarily related to shamanism: practical goals as luring in the hunt; entertainment (katajjaqs of Inuit). This holds e. g. for shamanism among Sami groups. Some of their shamanistic beliefs and practice shared important features with those of some Siberian cultures. Some of their yoiks were sung on shamanistic rites, this memory is conserved also in a folklore text (a shaman story). Recently, yoiks are sung in two different styles, one of these are sung only by young people. But the traditional one may be the other, the “mumbling” style, resembling to magic spells.

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