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The shamanic paraphernalia are the tangible and objectified representation of the origin spirits. Each piece of paraphernalia is animated by an origin spirit. In order to summon these spirits, the ...
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The official shamanic powers consist of completing thirteen shanars for male shamans to become zaarin and seven for females to become equally powerful duurisah. The shamans stage their shanars at i...
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The hierarchy of communal spirits and tengris
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When Baasan recalled the dates and circumstances of the deaths of her great-grandmother, Otgon, and grandfather, Amar, she became convinced that the two skulls her brother Bat saw before he died re...
