Shaman's Hat

What do you know about shamans? Not about demon shamans in carved masks, conjuring the Abyss and sending curses, but about other, ancient, real ones? You can live your whole life in Ericuria and not meet a single visionary. They live in secret, on the very outskirts of the civilized world, where progress has not yet reached and the war following on its heels.
 
There, on the very edge of civilization, in remote villages in the north, you can still meet one of the real shamans. They are taciturn, their faces are always hidden under outlandish headdresses of leather and fur, and looking at their bent and emaciated bodies, one might think that they carry the whole weight of this world. In part, it is.
 
You cannot become a shaman, their art cannot be learned, their gift cannot even be comprehended. Shamans who talk to spirits are born. Nature itself teaches them to see, hear and cry out. He reveals his secrets to them and sends guides to other worlds. But the shaman himself cannot do anything of his own free will. He is only a servant of his people and other, incomprehensible forces. That's why the burden on their shoulders is so heavy, and that's why they hardly talk to others. It's hard to be the only sighted person among the blind.
 
That's why shamans wear their wonderful hats that hide their faces, with their eyes sewn on top of their skin and fur, looking forward. Others should not know what truths the shaman sees, kamlaya over the bed of a sick man, over a dead bear, in a clearing under a full moon. These truths are visible only to himself. However, the shaman does not need his eyes, he sees with his heart. But others would be afraid to ask for the help of a blind old man.
 
The shaman's hat with sewn eyes is a symbol of his boundless power and infinite weakness, a symbol of his knowledge and faithful service to others. When trying on this hat, remember what it means. You will not become shamans, even if you walk in it for a whole year, but you will still lightly touch their path, fate and bitter sadness.
 
However, you can consider it just an interesting souvenir.