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Norse religious worship is the traditional religious rituals practiced by Norse pagans in Scandinavia in pre-Christian times. Norse religion was a folk religion (as opposed to an organized religion), and its main purpose was the survival and regeneration of society. Therefore, the faith was decentralized and tied to the village and the family ...
The lên đồng ritual in process. Múa mồi (fire dance) in lên đồng ritual. Lên đồng ( Vietnamese: [len ɗə̂wŋm] , chữ Nôm : 𨖲童), votive dance, "to mount the medium", [ 1 ] or "going into trance" [ 2 ] ) is a ritual practiced in Vietnamese folk religion , in which followers become spirit mediums for various kinds of spirits.
Old Norse religion, also known as Norse paganism, is a branch of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic peoples separated into a distinct branch of the Germanic peoples. It was replaced by Christianity and forgotten during the Christianisation of Scandinavia.
Adils; Alaric and Eric; Arngrim; Ask and Embla; Aun; Berserkers; Bödvar Bjarki; Dag the Wise; Domalde; Domar; Dyggve; Egil One-Hand; Fafnir; Fjölnir; Gudrun; Harald ...
Nordic folklore is the folklore of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.It has common roots with, and has been under mutual influence with, folklore in England, Germany, the Low Countries, the Baltic countries, Finland and Sápmi.
Norse clothing. In modern scholarship, Vikings is a common term for attacking Norsemen, especially in connection with raids and monastic plundering by Norsemen in the British Isles, but it was not used in this sense at the time. In Old Norse and Old English, the word simply meant 'pirate'. [18] [19] [20]
The Vietnamese Wikipedia (Vietnamese: Wikipedia tiếng Việt) is the Vietnamese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Like the rest of Wikipedia, its content is created and accessed using the MediaWiki wiki software.
Diorama of a lên đồng inside the Vietnamese Women's Museum, Hanoi The costume of god Chầu Đệ tam Thoải phủ in lên đồng ritual. The most prominent ritual of Đạo Mẫu is the ceremony of hầu bóng (lit. ' serving the reflections '), in which a priest or priestess mimics the deities by dressing and acting like them.