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Shamanism is a spiritual practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, ...
1922: a shaman of the Itneg people renewing an offering to the spirit of a warrior's kalasag shield A performer depicting a shaman in a recent Babaylan Festival of Bago, Negros Occidental. Babaylans (also balian or katalonan, among many other indigenous names) were shamans of the various ethnic groups of the pre-colonial Philippine islands.
The name of some individual shaman includes "Wu" (巫) in the normal position of the family surname, for example, in the case of Wu Yang (巫陽, "Shaman Bright"). Wu Yang is the major speaker in Zhao Hun / Summons for the Soul .
Other sex-differentiated shaman names include nanwu 男巫 for "male shaman; sorcerer; wizard"; and nüwu 女巫, wunü 巫女, wupo 巫婆, and wuyu 巫嫗 for "female shaman; sorceress; witch". The word tongji 童乩 (lit. "youth diviner") "shaman; spirit-medium" is a near-synonym of wu.
While non-Native anthropologists often use the term shaman for Indigenous healers worldwide, including the Americas, shaman is the specific name for a spiritual mediator from the Tungusic peoples of Siberia, [8] which has been adopted by some Inuit communities but is not preferred by Native American or First Nations communities.
The shaman is also known as chonteador, and his most important wand is the chonta defensa; if he dies without disciples, the chonta is thrown, wrapped in rubands [clarification needed] and weighted with stones, to the bottom of a lake with the belief that its power will reemerge when a new shaman will take office.
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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 ...