2,800-year-old mummy of an apparently Caucasian man found in an ancient tomb.

The well-preserved mummy, that experts said is likely of a shaman in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has been under examination since being found in 2003, the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported.

Especially intriguing to the scientists was the presence of a sack of marijuana leaves that archaeologists found buried with the leather-coat bound mummy.
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As student of Shamanism and a priestess of the Great Goddess, I am interested in these Mummies for several reasons;

1. They predate the Silk Roads by nearly a thousand years, and give long over due credence to the legends of Bronze Age, East/West trade routes, Scythia and Pazyryk Warriors, Amazon Warriors, and the Caucasian connections to the Mongolian Nomads and their Shamanistic rituals.

2. There literally thousands of recent or undiscovered burials, tombs and mummies interned from the Black Sea, along the Russian steppes to Western China (Altai Mountains, Gobi and Talkamalkan desert). Research of these mummies, tombs and their artifacts has been slow because of the red tape surrounding these countries (Eastern Europe, Russia, China), and China has been reluctant to admit the mummies may be Caucasian. While most the mummies represent various levels of societies, Shaman are more easily identified through the numerous artifacts still used by Mongolian Shaman today, including, Marijuana and Hashish, and other related paraphernalia.

3. Scientists have recently linked the remains of known female horse warriors (Amazons) through DNA testing to living Mongolian Nomads (see PBS Women Warrior link below).

4. I am some how drawn to (past life?) reindeer herding, nomadic cultures, including Yurt living and animistic spirituality. The Elk and/or possibly the Reindeer are my totem animal, which began appearing to me in dreams, journeys and the physical, several years ago (before then I had no real interest in them).

5. I am interested in the Sami (Laplander) tribes of the Scandinavian Circumpolar region, because they just may be the last indigenous, Caucasian, tribal people on earth. They were originally a matriarchal society and still have practicing female Shaman. Further, there seem to be cultural, Artistic and Religious links between the Sami and other Asian Reindeer herding cultures.

Anam Cara

THE TOCHARIANS - THE GREAT LOST WHITE CIVILIZATION IN CHINA
www.white-history.com/hwr6a.htm

AMAZON WARRIOR WOMEN (DNA CONNECTION TO MONGOLIAN NOMADS)
www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets...on/index.html

SIBERIAN ICE MAIDEN (MY PROFILE PHOTO), AND THE PAZYRYK
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazyryk

SCYTHIAN WARRIORS
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythia

SAMI SHAMANISM
www.eutopia.no/Samisjaman.htm