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  2. Wu (shaman) - Wikipedia

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    Chen's shaman-king hypothesis was supported by Kwang-chih Chang who cited the Guoyu story about Shao Hao severing heaven-earth communication (above). This myth is the most important textual reference to shamanism in ancient China, and it provides the crucial clue to understanding the central role of shamanism in ancient Chinese politics.

  3. Category:Fictional shamans - Wikipedia

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  4. Seiðr - Wikipedia

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    Author Jan Fries regards seiðr as a form of "shamanic trembling", which he relates to "seething", used as a shamanic technique, the idea being his own and developed through experimentation. [26] According to Blain, seiðr is an intrinsic part of spiritual practice connecting practitioners to the wider cosmology in British Germanic neopaganism ...

  5. Shamanism - Wikipedia

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    Shamanism is a spiritual practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. [3] [4] The goal of this is usually to direct spirits or spiritual energies into the physical world for the purpose of healing, divination, or to aid human beings in some other way. [3]

  6. Category:Ancient Greek shamans - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Ancient Greek shamans" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  7. Heyoka - Wikipedia

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    The heyoka (heyókȟa, also spelled "haokah," "heyokha") is a type of sacred clown shaman in the culture of the Sioux (Lakota and Dakota people) of the Great Plains of North America. The heyoka is a contrarian, jester , and satirist , who speaks, moves and reacts in an opposite fashion to the people around them.

  8. Tengrism - Wikipedia

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    Tengrism (also known as Tengriism, Tengerism, or Tengrianism) is a religion originating in the Eurasian steppes, based on shamanism and animism.It generally involves the titular sky god Tengri, [1] who is not considered a deity in the usual sense but a personification of the universe. [2]

  9. Filipino shamans - Wikipedia

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    1922: a shaman of the Itneg people renewing an offering to the spirit of a warrior's shield [1] A performer depicting a shaman in a recent Babaylan Festival of Bago, Negros Occidental Filipino shamans , commonly known as babaylan (also balian or katalonan , among many other names), were shamans of the various ethnic groups of the pre-colonial ...