We have seen that some of the fundamental beliefs documented throughout the entire world, particularly in shamanic cultures, imply an interconnection of species, including between humans and animals, because of the deep affinity that unites them. Thus, with reference to the shamanic vocabulary of the peoples of Greenland, Joëlle Robert-Lamblin indicates that “The child of man is described with the same term as the offspring of the dog or of the bearded seal, thus recalling the existence of a sameness of the human and animal worlds in mythology and in beliefs.”
