Mongolian shamanism includes religious beliefs and practises of shamans who enter trances to communicate with deities and spiritual beings who then possess the shaman's body. Shamans wear costumes and ...

Although shamanism was almost made extinct during Mongolia's communist era, the practice is now booming, writes Joshua Kucera for Eurasianet. When Degi, a 24-year-old web designer in Mongolia’s ...

And he reportedly returned from Mongolia satisfied ... In October 2023, Kara-ool Dopchun-ool, who is considered the "supreme ...

On his feet were specially made reindeer-skin shaman boots. He’s a Darhad, one of the ethnic groups indigenous to northern Mongolia, next to the Russian border. Numbering some 20,000 ...

In Mongolian. Their success — The Hu is the ... Shoog,” one of their early songs, is the shamanic call to ancestral spirits. Front man Temuulen “Temka” Naranbaatar, 34, who plays an ...

But Mongolian officials failed to detain him ... Last year state media reported Russia’s chief shaman, Kara-ool Dopchun-ool, ...

(RNS) — An eight-man heavy metal band from Mongolia known as The Hu has done what few thought could happen in the 21st century: Create a new genre of folk-metal music. Decked out in black war ...