 Besides that, there were several types of shamans, differing in function (sacral rites, curing), power and associated animal (deer, bear).Also among Kets (like at several other Siberian peoples, e.g.Karagas), there are examples of using skeleton symbolics, Hoppál interprets it as a symbol of shamanic rebirth, although it may symbolize also the bones of the loon (the helper animal of the shaman, joining air and underwater world, just like the shaman who travelled both to the sky and the underworld as well).