mystic bedside manner
from Interview with Alexander Rogozhkin, director:
Did you carefully study the Sami culture, their rites, shamanism, etc.?
I knew something, I studied something, but then I gave up and trusted my intuition. The consultants, from the Saint-Petersburg Ethnographical Museum, started to contradict each other, so I rejected consulting. The labyrinth for the fishing I constructed according to intuition– I saw the tides of the White Sea and realized that Sami would have such a labyrinth, because it is working, useful, and functional, and there is nothing nonfunctional in this culture. It is funny that Europeans despise the culture of Nomads, because nomads needed no cities and no houses. Yourta (a nomad’s tent) was a focus of their world, and the nomad communicated with God through its upper opening. Then he left the place and went to the new one. Needless to say that the nomad’s tent and Sami dwellings were constructed in the “ecological way”, as they call it now. In the wise way, in general.