Do you know the mysterious shaman culture?

Shaman is a mysterious profession, and shaman culture is full of mystery. Shaman is an indispensable profession in many games. They are proficient in magic and medical skills, and are the best candidates for making copies in teams.

Shaman culture exists in northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, North Korea, Mexico and other foreign countries. This profession is respected. People who believe in shamans believe that shamans can communicate with heaven and earth, pray for the blessing of the gods and drive away disasters and evil spirits.

The ancient and mysterious shaman culture is full of mysterious and fantastic colors in the world. Our understanding of shaman mostly stays in shaman rituals and traditions handed down by Manchu and Mongolian ancestors. Most of the shaman images preserved in these cultures are wearing strange masks or tassels on their heads, wearing Peng Fa holding drums and wearing colorful national costumes. During the ceremony, the shaman danced primitive dances, carried strange spells or sang strange songs, and made all kinds of strange moves, which made many people feel mysterious or awe of the shaman.

However, this is only one aspect of shaman in Asian culture. In the shaman culture handed down all over the world, each region has its own culture and form. For example, among the indigenous tribes in North America, shamans appear as "medicine people" or "medicine women", while in some tribes in Central and South America or Africa, shamans mostly appear as witch doctors. In Korean shaman culture, shaman's identity is the same as that of Taoist.

It should be noted that although their names and identities are different and they use their own traditions and methods, they do the same. Shamans in any region are considered to be able to communicate with the world of God and connect the world of matter and energy. Of course, they are also considered to be able to communicate with everything in the world, whether animals or plants, or mountains and lakes. As long as there are gods, shamans can "talk" with them. Maybe you don't know that Genghis Khan, who frightened the East and the West, was only Temujin who dominated the grassland when he established the Great Mongolian Khanate. It was the shaman who begged for immortality for four days and four nights, and finally gave Temujin a name from immortality-Genghis Khan.

So where did the term shaman come from?

According to historical records, the word shaman has existed for at least 2000 years, which comes from the Jiewenke language in Tungusic language and is an indigenous people in northern Russia. Later generations are distributed in today's Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Siberia and other places, and the word shaman is found in Tunguska dialects.

Then why are there shamans in America?

Many anthropologists who study traditional ancient tribes believe that human beings have made numerous great migrations in the historical process, and the primitive tribes in the East entered the American region thousands of years ago. They scattered branches and leaves all the way, and finally settled in America, giving birth to a special culture, but these cultures are rich in oriental colors. Traditional tribes in Asia, Africa, Oceania, America and other parts of the world have very similar beliefs, even in some ceremonies and festivals, they are very similar to the basic world outlook. These primitive tribal cultural beliefs are all classified as "shamans".

Shaman, now the understanding of ordinary people is "jumping into the gods". But shaman was originally a way of divination and communication with gods in the bitter and cold areas outside the customs. Moreover, the primitive nomadic people outside the customs all believe in Shamanism.

Shaman is not so much a culture as a religious system. Because the original shamanism mainly served the royal family, predicting astronomical phenomena, fortune telling and communicating nerves for the royal family. Moreover, there are many strange legends about shamans. These shaman psychics usually wear fur coats, masks and donkey skin drums, and communicate with the gods in the "upper language" that people don't understand.

But now shaman culture has gradually evolved into "jumping gods", which is why people now associate shaman with jumping gods. Moreover, there are some differences between the present jumping god and the traditional shaman. Shamans nowadays are more associated with exorcising evil spirits, treating diseases and cheating money. In particular, some duets now pollute the "jumping god" and make people misinterpret the traditional shaman.

Moreover, the bizarre "jumping god" now has a lot to do with shaman. According to legend, Nurhachi, the founding emperor of the Qing Dynasty, signed an agreement with the shaman to help Nurhachi expand his territory. At the same time, it also set the rule that "fox yellow is not allowed to enter the customs". At present, most of the "jumping gods" in Northeast China offer sacrifices in the form of personal sacrifices. The more common ones are "fox, yellow, white and willow ash", in addition to some legendary other animal fairies and some grass fairies. Moreover, these immortals exist in the form of fairy halls, and there are many rules, so I won't introduce them much.

So the traditional shaman culture is not what people usually see in the media. These are my views on this issue. If there is anything wrong, please let me know.