This paper analyzes Park Saengkwang(1904-1985)’s artwork,created in the 1980s and influenced by Musok,Korean Shamanism.It explores Musok’s thematic significance in the development of his distinctive style and the in...
Shaman originates from the Tungusic-Ian language.In northeast China,the Shamanism traditions have gradually merged,and formed a compound belief form of polytheism and immortality.When a Shaman enters a special state,h...
The Chukchee in northeastern Siberia have a longstanding historical tradition of shamanism w hich was closely integrated into their traditional society and way of life . In accordance with their different modes of sub...
Native Inuit developed a complex system of shamanic-oriented thinking. They filled the frozen immensities of the Arctic with a number of omnipresent ghosts and spirits. In its shamanic-religious dimension, the Dorset ...
Shamanism(巫wu)in China is an archaic religious tradition tracing back to the beginning of Chinese ideographic writing on the oracle bones of the Shang dynasty(1700-1027 BCE),and probably stretching further back to th...
Rather than addressing the myths or cosmologies supposedly expressed in rock art, this paper explores some of the myths that have been and are still being created about rock art. We know from the study of the last roc...