There's a book, The Greeks and the Irrational, that suggests the idea of a soul or self separate from the body was a shamanistic idea that came to Greece via Sc

There's a book, The Greeks and the Irrational, that suggests the idea of a soul or self separate from the body was a shamanistic idea that came to Greece via Scythian or Thracian influence. Empedocles seems to have been the first Greek philosopher to have used the word "daemon" in this sense.