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  • |rels=Russian Orthodox, Shamanism }} The Nenets people (ненец ‘nenets’, ненцы ‘nentsy’ (pl.) in Russian) have inhabited the ...
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  • Others argue that there are religious elements to rock art. Shamanism ... Culture of Siberian and Central Asian Shamanism"] The Archaeology ...
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  • rituals into its own spiritual practices. Shamanism, Daoism, and Buddhism have evolved together in a kindred relationship throughout the history ...
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  • 古神道), a version of Korean shamanism that considered Dangun ... *Covell, Alan Carter. Folk art and magic: Shamanism in Korea. Seoul ...
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  • ===Shamanism=== a system of spiritual technology—Shamanism. Shamanism refers to a ...
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  • ==Shamanism== The concept of possession by evil spirits and the practice ... Korean shamanism encompasses a variety of indigenous beliefs and practices ...
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  • as Shaman priests to their kingdom. Shamanism is an indigenous traditon ... which was an important tenet of Siberian shamanism. However, some believe ...
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  • Religion in Korea encompasses Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Daoism and Shamanism as practiced historically in Korea, as well as contemporary ...
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  • including Buddhism, Shintoism, Shamanism, Hinduism. There is a widespread understanding common to all the major religions that human beings ...
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  • Tengri is associated with Central Asian shamanism. During the Middle Ages ... tenger,%20chotgor%20and%20other%20spirits Shamanism: Tengers (sky spirits) ...
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  • yin-yang cosmology, Mohism, Legalism, shamanism, and geomancy. He believed ... yin-yang cosmology, Mohism, Legalism, shamanism, and geomancy. His writings ...
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  • describe his training in traditional Mesoamerican shamanism. The bulk of his work, particularly that of his early career, is argued to have been inspired ...
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  • wholly related to Daoism, the rites and myths of shamanism influenced the mystery cults and led to Daoist liturgy and theology. The Fang Shih theories ...
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  • Mongolian wrestling (бөх, bökh) has been a traditional sport in Mongolia for centuries. Mongolian wrestlers have an important cultural status ...
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  • Chuseok (Korean: 추석; hanja: 秋夕), literally "Autumn eve," once known as hangawi (Korean: 한가위); from archaic Korean for ...
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  • |rels=Christianity (mostly Russian Orthodox), Shamanism ... that they could be reborn. They practiced shamanism, recognizing that there ...
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  • encountered the indigenous religion Shamanism. Seen has harmonious with ... had much in common with the predominant Shamanism, which likely led to the ...
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  • Culture of Siberian and Central Asian Shamanism] in The Archaeology of ... *Price, Neil. The Archaeology of Shamanism. London: Routledge, 2001 ...
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  • another. Their religion, Tengriism, a form of shamanism centered on a celestial deity, Tengrii, includes elements which resemble concepts of Confucian ...
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  • into 15 sections. The influence of shamanism is dominant in the poem ... *Qu, Yuan, and Arthur Waley. 1955. The nine songs; a study of shamanism ...
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  • Traditional Bushmen practice shamanism, conjuring animals with sacred songs, and performing almost magical healing.Rupert Isaacson, The Healing ...
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  • affinity for Christianity, Buddhism, Daoism, and Shamanism), independence-minded (but inclined to a younger brother position to a protector, preferably ...
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  • * Shamanism * Anthropology ==External links== All links retrieved May 1, 2023. * [http://www.starstuffs.com/animal_totems/ Animal Totems] ...
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  • Tanrı) and incorporates elements of shamanism, animism, totemism, and ... the Khazars practiced traditional Turkic shamanism, focused on the celestial ...
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  • much later in the New Age traditions of shamanism. The binding of smudge sticks for many traditions was a sacred, intentional process in and ...
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  • of the belief system not directly linked to shamanism: * tattooingLars ... The term “shamanism” has been used for various distinct cultures ...
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  • in discouraging the practice of shamanism. By the 1950s Shuar had lost a considerable amount of land to settlers. At this time they abandoned ...
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  • Shamanism involves a practitioner reaching an altered state of consciousness ... * Eliade, Mircea. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Princeton ...
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  • The Three Kingdoms Period of Korea (hangul: 삼국시대) featured the three rival kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla, which dominated the ...
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  • Korean history has long included elements of Shamanism, Confucianism and Buddhism. The early Shamanist Koreans had an essentially monotheistic ...
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  • often been important symbols, whether in Shamanism, early Egyptian religions ... the spiritual leaders in the religion of Shamanism, have used them as religious ...
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  • Shamanism in various cultures saw dreams and dream-like states as ... *Walsh, Roger. World of Shamanism: New Views of an Ancient Tradition ...
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  • * The Nine Songs: A Study of Shamanism in Ancient China, 1955 * Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet, 1956 * The Opium War through Chinese ...
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  • Koreans can claim an association with both shamanism (from Dangun) and pre-Confucian China (from Jizi). During the Neo-Confucian Joseon Dynasty ...
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  • |rels=Christianity, Shamanism |langs=Inuit language,Eskimo-Aleut languages ... ===Shamanism=== Shamanism among Eskimo peoples The Inuit practiced ...
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  • holiday celebrations. They practice a form of shamanism, although Christianity has been making inroads recently. == History == Written records ...
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  • barrier of secrecy surrounding Aboriginal shamanism, which has likely limited ... of Zeus, and their own traditions of shamanism, the Amanita and the & ...
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  • to this day. Add to that the profound impact of Shamanism, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and Christianity, and it yields the varied and colorful culture ...
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  • that the bird-like head of the man is evidence of shamanism, and that the caves may have served to facilitate trance-like states (particularly if the ...
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  • some denominations of Christianity, Hinduism, shamanism, and many other personal belief systems. A reliquary is a shrine that houses one or more relics. ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal In parapsychology, clairvoyance (meaning "clear-seeing" ...
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  • likely originated as an outgrowth of shamanism, which propitiated the spirits/ghosts of ancestors. Classical necromancers addressed the dead ...
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  • |rels=Shamanism, Christianity |langs=Yurok, English |related=Karuk, Hupa }} The Yurok, whose name means "downriver people," are Native ...
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  • Taoists (Daoshi) view as a sort of shamanism. "Elite" Taoists place an emphasis on internal alchemy, self discipline and concentrated ...
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  • Chöd (Tibetan meaning, "cutting through") is an advanced spiritual practice and discipline arising from confluences of Bonpo, Mahasidda ...
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  • believed in nature spirits and practiced forms of shamanism. The Carib believed in an evil spirit called Maybouya who had to be placated in order to avoid ...
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  • and Eva Jane Neumann Fridman (eds.), Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World ... * Walter, Mariko N., and Eva Jane Neumann Fridman (eds.). Shamanism: ...
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  • and regard it as a form of superstition or shamanism. ===Xiuzhen and immortality=== On one level, the nature of Taoist immortality is a spiritual ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Archaeology Category:Art [[Image:Laas Geel cow herd.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Detail of the Laas Geel ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Archaeological sites Category:Anthropology Category:Art [[Image:Chauvethorses.jpg|thumb|right|Drawing ...
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  • The Mongol invasion of Rus' was heralded by the Battle of the Kalka River in 1223 between Subutai's reconnaissance unit and the combined ...
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  • ===Shamanism=== The shaman is called ixht'. He was the healer ... *Eliade, Mircea. 1964. Shamanism: Archaic techniques of ecstasy. Princeton ...
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  • His other scholarly works include a well-known study of shamanism (Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy) and an analysis of yoga as a concrete ...
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  • blending with the already present Shamanism, created a rich spiritual culture bedecked with beauty and knowledge. Silla's traditions continued ...
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  • from traditional Native American shamanism to a more Christianized tradition capable of accommodating the culture of the white man. ...
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  • and as part of religious practices like shamanism and paganism. While magic ... with the practices of animism and shamanism. Shamanic contact with ...
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  • Rätsch and Surendra Bahadur Shahi. 2002. Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas. Transl. by Annabel Lee. Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions. ...
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  • (Lamaist Buddhism with elements of Shamanism) spread among the Altay, creating a foundation for a new nationalist movement which was crushed ...
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  • |religions = Christianity, Shamanism |related = Inuit, Yupiks }} The Aleuts (Unangax, Unangan or Unanga) are the indigenous people of the Aleutian ...
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  • The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty (1420 - 1912) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911). It is ...
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  • The Jade Emperor (玉皇 (Yù Huáng) or 玉帝 (Yù Dì)), known informally as Heavenly Grandfather (天公 (Tiān Gōng)) and formally as the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Haida |image=[[Image:Charles Edenshaw ...
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  • Cuenca (full name Santa Ana de los cuatro ríos de Cuenca) is the third largest city in Ecuador in terms of population. It is located in the ...
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  • Glossolalia has also been observed in shamanism and the Voodoo religion of Haiti. ==Scientific perspectives== ===Linguistics=== The syllables ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Religion [[Image:Spirit rappings coverpage to sheet music 1853.jpg|thumb ...
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  • The paranormal takes a central part in shamanism, where shamans are often thought to possess the power of healing and the ability to travel ...
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  • the practitioners of traditional forms of shamanism, magic, and divination ... temple activities such as astrology and shamanism that have been criticized ...
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  • history, precontact material culture, feats of shamanism, and ancient prophecies about the coming of the white man, Gluskabe is known as Klose-kur-beh ...
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  • |rels=Shamanism, Buddhist, Christian, Others |langs=Miao language |related= }} The Miao ( c=苗|p=Miáo ; Vietnamese: Mèo or H'Mông; Thai: ...
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  • more precise categories (such as polytheism, shamanism, pantheism, or animism). Thus, the term's connotations are both stark and polarizing, ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Ho-Chunk |image=Image:White Cloud1.jpg ...
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  • in Seoul. Other religions include Shamanism and Confucianism, the latter seen more as a pervasive social philosophy rather than a religion. ...
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  • have also influenced Spiritualism. Animism and Shamanism are similar, and in the first decades of Spiritualism many mediums claimed contact with Native ...
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  • and Born again Christianity. Traditionally, Shamanism has always been a taboo subject in Inuit culture, not openly talked about. Shamans did not ...
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  • In the Bible, Baal (also rendered Baʿal) was an important Canaanite god, often portrayed as the primary enemy of the Hebrew God Yahweh. The ...
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  • The Mongol invasions of Europe were centered in their destruction of Russian principalities, such as Kiev and Vladimir, under the leadership ...
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  • Those three periods also display the impact of Shamanism, Buddhism from China, and Seon Buddhism, a unique Buddhism developed in Korea. ...
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  • Odin (Old Norse: Óðinn) is the chief god in Norse mythology whose role in the Norse pantheon is complex and multivalent: he is known as the ...
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  • African traditional religions, Asian Shamanism, Native American religions ... esotericism, mysticism, and forms of shamanism. For instance, consider ...
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  • In Norse Mythology, Freyja (sometimes anglicized as Freya or Freja), sister of Freyr and daughter of Njord (Njǫrđr), is a prototypical Norse ...
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  • remained a devout Buddhist with influences from Shamanism and Confucianism; her religious beliefs would become the model, indirectly, for those of many ...
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  • Polytheism (from the Greek: polus, many, and theos, god) refers to belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or deities. This mode of belief is ...
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  • Vedanta, Gnosticism, Buddhism, or Shamanism. White, 1965; Schwartz, 2002 Thus Sufism came to bridge gaps between the Muslim population and rulers ...
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  • the mission among the Salish, they practiced shamanism and held animistic beliefs, particularly worshiping: the sun, personified as a woman, as ...
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  • Many preliterate cultures embraced notions of animism and shamanism postulating early ideas of the soul. Over time, philosophical reflection ...
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  • by Buddhism, Daoism, and Korean Shamanism. Since the middle of the twentieth century, Christianity has competed with Buddhism in South Korea ...
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  • |religions = Shamanism, Buddhism, Christianity, others |related = }} The terms Hmong (IPA: [m̥ɔ̃ŋ] ) and Mong ( [mɔ̃ŋ] ) both refer ...
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  • affect the lives of the living is the basis of Shamanism. Believing that illness and bad fortune may be caused by spirits, shamans use their psychic ...
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  • Korean literature is the body of literature produced in Korea or by Korean writers. For much of history, it was written both in classical Chinese ...
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  • hunter-gatherers with their focus on shamanism and animal totems), *The Way of the Seeded Earth (the myths of Neolithic, agrarian cultures with ...
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  • of Islam and Christianity, various forms of Shamanism have been widely practiced throughout the history of what is now modern day Mongolia, as such ...
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  • declared, "While he may well have talked up shamanism or alchemy, and even nurtured some superstitions about ritual and healing," he never suggested ...
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  • |rels=Shamanism, Christianity |langs=Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Plains Apache, Mescalero, Western Apache |related=Navajo }} Apache is the collective ...
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  • of traditional forms of Viking shamanism, sorcery, prophecy) bound in stout ropes and left on a tidal skerry to drown.DuBois, 67.]] ...
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  • Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked socialist republic in Southeast Asia. Laos traces its history to ...
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  • In ancient times as well as today, Feng Shui, (風水) pronounced in English as [ fʊŋ'ʃweɪ ] ("fung shway"), was known as ...
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  • The Jesus myth hypothesis, or simply Jesus myth, refers to the theory that Jesus never existed, and that his story is actually a syncretism of ...
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  • Bahadur Shahi, Mohan Rai, and Indra Doj Gurung. Shamanism and tantra in the Himalayas. Rochester, Vt: Inner Traditions, 2002. ISBN 0892819138 ...
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  • Bhutan, Ladakh has never parted from Buddhism. Shamanism is also widely practiced, usually incorporated into Buddhism. The practice of fortune-telling ...
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  • to gods or communion with ancestor spirits); shamanism (the vesting of an individual with mystic powers); and divination (magically obtaining the truth). ...
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  • Genghis Khan (1162 – 1227), the founder of the largest contiguous land empire, the Mongol Empire, ever established. He was the son of Yesugei ...
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  • #039; medicine and a departure from Shamanism. No longer do healers look for a supernatural cause of disease: they now observe Nature and, with ...
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  • There is a strong tradition of animism and shamanism, especially in rural areas. Spiteful witches and angry spirits are thought to inflict illness ...
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  • Prior to their conversion, the Kalmyks practiced shamanism. Historically, Kalmyk clergy received their training either on the steppe or in Tibet ...
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  • terms may sometimes be used interchangeably. Shamanism was practiced among many tribes. Common spirituality focused on the maintenance of a harmonious ...
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  • Korean culture to this day as well as Shamanism, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and Christianity, all of which had profound impacts on the varied ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Sociology Category:Anthropology Category:Life sciences Category:Lifestyle ...
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