{"id":4907,"date":"2013-03-27T15:07:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T22:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/?p=4907"},"modified":"2014-03-05T17:58:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T00:58:46","slug":"sukulen-shaman-of-the-samburu-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/27\/sukulen-shaman-of-the-samburu-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Sukulen: Shaman of the Samburu Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another profound experience I had with Shaman happened in Northern Kenya while I was photographing the Samburu tribe. While I was there my guide let me know that many of the villagers mentioned that their \u201cpredictor\u201d had told them that my assistant and I were coming. At first I thought nothing of it, as anyone looking at us could have \u2018created\u2019 the prediction on the spot.\u00a0 As the days went on I learned more details about the prediction that led me to believe otherwise.<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>

My guide, 85 year old, Iparo.<\/p><\/div>\n

First, the prediction, which come to find out was made a full two months before we showed up, described one of us as having long white hair. My assistant, Larissa, did have long blond hair – until the day before we left on the trip when she cut her hair and died it with henna.<\/p>\n

Second, they told us that I would hide from them when I took my photographs.
\nTypically I use a wide-angle lens on my Hasselblad and I am less than 2 feet from my subject. But then I remember that I had a new camera with me that I had yet to take out and use.\u00a0 It just so happened to be a 5×7 view camera that required me to cover myself in a silver cloth while focusing.<\/p>\n

\"Sukulen_02\"<\/a>

What I look liked photographing with the view camera.<\/p><\/div>\n

A few days later I met Sukulen the thirty-seven-year old Samburu mother of eight that had made the prediction.\u00a0 I had taken her photograph before she let us know that she was the one who had \u2018seen\u2019 us and that she had been told that \u2018we were harmless\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 She told us that she had a vision of us photographing two months before in the manner in which we had just photographed her.\u00a0 She said that I looked and moved the same as \u2018the European\u2019 that she had seen in her vision. Sukulen told us that as a teenager she started having fainting spells and hearing voices.\u00a0 She thought she was sick and that she might die.\u00a0 She was very scared until her grandmother took her aside and let her know that she had a unique gift.\u00a0 I learned later that Sukulen was the most well known \u2018predictor\u2019 in the whole Samburu tribe.<\/p>\n

\"Sukulen,<\/a>

Sukulen, 37 years old.<\/p><\/div>\n

It was interesting to me to think back to the Tibetan Kuten, who had a similar story in his beginning as a medium for the Tibetan people.\u00a0 It was my encounters with Thupten Ngodrup and Sukulen that first intrigued me about non-ordinary states of mind and lead me to continue exploring the topic of shamanism, consciousness and culture. Next week I\u2019ll share my travel to Mongolia to meet the Shaman of the Nanai tribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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