Shamanism in Korea

The shaman wears a fabric veil while a trance state is being reached. The mask not only blocks out reality, but additionally cover from evil spirits. Restricted in which a shaman returns the soul to the body is through a string-tying custom. Different colours such as white, red, blue strings are fixed to protect individuals from spirits in the form of illness. These strings signify the binding up and holding in place of the life-souls. When Paja and his wife became sick, their relative performed a healing ceremony for them (McSilver & Siegel, 2001). During this ceremony, strings are tied around their wrists to restore their souls to their bodies. The Hmong culture has a lot of traditional activities they perform. During funeral rituals of the Thaos' relative, Uncle Por, relatives give up a chicken for Uncle Por to bear on his excursion to discover his ancestors. Shamans endeavor to mend illnesses through sacrifice to the spirits, for example, with animals. Hmong trust that the souls of creatures and people are firmly connected. They give up a cow to call Paja's soul home, a pig to assuage the mother's soul, and they tie strings around their wrists to keep their souls bound to Earth. In Hmong culture, the souls of conciliatory animals are joined with human souls, in this way, a shaman uses a animals spirit to protect the patient's soul. (McSilver & Siegel, 2001). The Hmong individuals trust

Shamanism and ancestor reverence are key religions of the Chinese. Shamans are spiritual healers who call on spirits while they are dreaming to relieve an individual from uncertainty or cure an individual from a disease (Laughlin & Rock, 2014). Shamans are seen as elders of the Chinese community and are respected for the tremendous healing power they have on others. Furthermore, ancestor reverence is the respect many younger generations have for their

Culture is one of the most important parts of the life as spirituality. Native American, people practice many different ceremonies as a ritual, which represent their culture, such as, Sun Dance, healing ceremony, and Gallup ceremony, etc. The first ceremony that Native American celebrates the Sun Dance, which is also known as thanksgiving ceremony. This ceremony is like a vision dance. It is a ritual in which people stare at the sun, until everything blackout or spirit break in (Lecture notes). The other ceremony is Gallup ceremony, which is one of the major celebrations that Indian-Tribe celebrates. According to the text, “The Gallup Ceremonial had been an annual event for a long time. It was good for the tourist, they liked to see Indians and Indian dances; they wanted a chance to buy Indian Jewelry and Navajo rugs. Every year it was organized by the white men there” (111). It demonstrates that, how the Native people celebrate their ceremonies every year, with all the respect to their culture. The last ceremony is healing ceremony. Healing ceremony is the ritual that a female Pomo Shaman conducts a ritual healing ceremony over the man’s body. She is performing the ancient doctoring to heal the man spiritually, in which she was dancing with a two sticks, chanting and rubbing her hand on the body (Lecture notes). As we compare, ancient and recent Native American cultures were almost the same because in the past, people celebrate the cultures with a very good sight to enjoy their rituals. Even though, now society has developed a lot, but values of traditions are not changed

The Aztecs were very serious about their religion and it affected every Aztec’s daily life. Their religion revolved heavily around human sacrifices in order to please the gods. Sacrifices to the sun were essential to them because they did not want the sun to burn out on them. They do this because in their religion there was believed to be four other suns which had burned out before the sun we have now. Other than that it united its people and was what shaped the magnificent Aztec empire to what it was.

Another characteristic of an indigenous religion deals with the emphasis placed on the spiritual specialists. The general consensus is that anyone can have personal or direct access to spirits or that which is unseen, yet felt (democratized shamanism). There is no special requirement in most indigenous systems that stipulate ‘who’ can commune or interact with spirits, however, as a general rule, many feel that it is best to leave interactions with spirits to those that have been taught or trained through ritual or purification of some sort. Most indigenous religions are not written down, but based on oral

Totemism was practiced by the Northwest Indian. They believe of having a natural object or aminate being, such as a bird or animal, as the emblem of a family, clan, or tribe. An shaman was a spiritual leader and a healer who believed that within the Shamanism creed that the shaman communicated with spirits in other worlds. They used dances, gestures and sounds as the symbolic powers of Shamanism to enter the spirit world. They would wear ceremonial clothes and would carry objects like rattles and drums to incarnate the spirits of nature and amplify their

Shamans do their work by changing the state of their mind, or consciousness. This can be achieved through the use of the rhythm of the drum or of music. It can be achieved through physical activities such as long ceremonies of dancing and singing. It can also be achieved through the use of hallucinogens such as Ayuhuasca. What shamans do to shift their consciousness is different in different cultures. It is important to know that a large amount of shamanic healers don’t use

There is an importance and reason behind every dance or celebration, which I think is a very good way to worship the spirits. European domination truly expanded into all aspects of life, which is a horrible way to kill tradition.

Shamans, people believed to call spirits and would cure the sick, were important to Coahuilticans and Karankawa beliefs.

The east native americans used shamanism as their religion.The first detail Is about what weapons the southeast indians used like blow guns made out of hollowed rods and seeds.The second detail is about what building and hunting tools they used like bow and arrows made of stone and carved wood.The third detail is about what buildings the southeast american’s used like daub houses which was made of mud and dirt.

During hooded dances, ancestral dead are thought to walk among the living. Many believe that to touch the spirit possessed dancer could kill you. In the religion talismans are bought and some like fetishes. The talismans represent gods and deities through dried animal heads or other body parts. These can be salad as medicine and spiritual power.

support, providing cures to illnesses not only using herbs, but also via the spirit world. They would

shaman.Through the use of drums and rattles and the smoking of mixtures of tobacco or peyote,the

Similar to magical and mystical practices worldwide, Korean mysticism and shamanism comes in various form and even structurally encourages people to worship a wide variety of deities. European-based mysticism, particularly neo-paganism, also tends to include different pantheons and respects different worship within their communities. Despite the shared views on the surface level, Korean and European forms of shamanism and mysticism tend to be quite different in nature. However, they share the similar aspects of ritualistic offerings, polytheism, and divination. Beginning with divination, the idea behind divination is being able to speak to spirits and deities in a way that provides some insight into the future, whether the fate of the situation is malleable or not in the eyes of those practicing.

Talchum is a type of Korean dance performed with a mask, miming, speaking, and singing. It is loosely choreographed in the traditional sense of a dance, and organized more towards theatre. It was a farcical caricature of its contemporary era, with a sick twist of vicarious humor, from its very roots traced back to the era of ancient Three Kingdoms of Korea (37 BC-668 AD). The leading appeal of Talchum has always been the biting satire and vicarious ridicule it pointed at apostate Buddhist monks, decadent upper classmen, and incompetent shamans. It is interesting to note that the aggressive nose-thumbing was towards the upper class, religious leaders, and generally figures higher in the social rung.