The Barbarian Shaman only item: Initiate Symbol of Tribunal also lets Shamans summon the hammer. YOu can get at lvl 1 I think. Good til a better weap comes along.
I got this at level 1 although it took a kind soul to cast SOW on me to get to Qeynos alive. (I banked everything in Qeynos and went out attacking everything until I died to gert back to Halas quickly)
This weapon is ALMOST good... if only you got it as a level 5 spell not a 9 it would be perfect and worth 2-3pp... but by the time you hit 9 it's only still awesome for one reason and it costs too much at 5pp for it's worth.
By level 9 a good grouping cleric is not actually fighting, and a good soloing cleric could use a magic weapon. What this means is that the former saves money on buying a weapon at all (thus more money for spells) and the latter has a free weapon to use on undead (which are the xp food of soloing clerics) and willowisps (which are the pp food for many a level 10-12), thus enabling them to save money for a cool magic 1hbl instead of buuying a crapy one to kill the creatures needed to buy the money needed to get a good one.
Still... a cleric is one of the most self relient classes... gates and aura's are auto escape... summoned weapon/food/drink means never in need of those or unarmed... and lots of good buffs means even if you die you can buff yourself and have near the same ac as a warrior of only a few levels below you in full normal armor w/o buffs.