| It attracts many as a kind of shamanistic ritual to enter the spirit world. |
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| And, finally, they practised the local religions and accepted the local shamanistic beliefs, and did so with their characteristic intensity. |
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| He draws attention to survivals of shamanistic cults from early modern times to the present. |
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| When you started going to church and you let go of your shamanistic powers, did you have to get baptized? |
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| Obviously ayahuasca is a shamanistic tool, if not the most important Amazonian one. |
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| The shamanistic framework has now become a problem of the hyperreal. |
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| The indigenous pre-Buddhist, pre-Confucian, pre-Daoist, and pre-Christian religion of the Korean peninsula seems to have been shamanistic in nature. |
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| This alluring slots game lets you multiply your wins with shamanistic magic and special golden idols. |
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| Yet despite all that, some Samoyed still practise shamanistic rites and they have conserved an extraordinary tradition of oral literature. |
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| They talk of the danger of the unknown future, of shamanistic intervention to protect their culture. |
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| The drive to the lake leads through vast forests, past the roadside shamanistic altars of the indigenous Buryats, under an enormous Siberian sky. |
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| Greenspan cultivated an oracular air, his utterances vague and technocratic yet hinting at shamanistic powers. |
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| In 1980 he added Trois Villes Saintes, a barely readable exercise in shamanistic geography. |
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| Jones refines her shamanistic readings by arguing that the hero-kings of Celtic literature, rather than the Druids, are the ones who undergo shamanistic initiation. |
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| The oldest Buddhist sect in Tibet, it emphasizes mysticism and incorporates shamanistic practices and local deities borrowed from the pre-Buddhist Bon religion. |
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| We hear about pre-Christian religion, pagan beliefs, shamanistic rituals and healing drums, and the story is narrated in ambiguous and multivocal words and concepts. |
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| For spirit loss, a baci, or a shamanistic ceremony may be performed. |
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| The woman's home was full of shamanistic material, which we gathered and burned. |
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| For many shamanistic cultures, this represents a liminal, or transitional state, and is often compared with the initiatory rites of shamans. |
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| These areas because of their remoteness from the inhabited areas were undoubtedly sacred places dedicated to shamanistic practices. |
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| True shamanistic performances included sakaniq and tuurnginiq, and could be private or public. |
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| The ceremony that I will carry on your name owes its origins in ancient shamanistic practices. |
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| By way of shamanistic ritual he hung suspended from the World Tree, Yggdrasil, and thereby discovered the secret of the runes. |
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| One of the specific features of the festival is the coexistence of Confucian, shamanistic and Buddhist rituals. |
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| Drummers often wore walrus intestine parkas for protection from evil spirits and to ensure they are able to see their way when going on shamanistic journeys. |
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| There is a strong shamanistic influence in the Gelugpa sect among the Mongols. |
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| A respected shamanistic healer, Raoni shows lots of interest for the Innus traditional medicine, and Pinip Pietacho shows him how to heal a sore throat. |
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| Between them is a spiralling column. These figures, which we can identify as the guardians of the Tree of Life, are a symbolic expression rooted in shamanistic beliefs. |
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| The festival includes a shamanistic ritual on the Daegwallyeong Ridge, which pays tribute to the mountain deity and male and female tutelary deities. |
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| Typically induced by a combination of psychedelic plants and music, the shamanistic trance enables one to perceive part of what can't be perceived in ordinary states of consciousness. |
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| Occasionally the crowns were embellished with jade tiger fangs-closely associated with the shamanistic beliefs known to the Japanese as magatama-which symbolized power and hence royal authority. |
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| Quoting the text liberally, she looks at the construction of the confessions, shamanistic perspectives, and the demonological elements. |
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| The origins of the Tibetan bowls and detailed history are lost in the distant past and certainly is a gift from the shamanistic Bon religion that existed in Tibet for several centuries before the arrival of Buddhism. |
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| Performed in the round, Spektator virtually drags the audience into a loud and bloodcurdling world that is at once shamanistic, archaic and post-modern. |
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| Along with several other hallucinogens and narcotics, a strong, dark, high-nicotine and, consequently, mind-altering tobacco was crucial to the performance of shamanistic rituals and social ceremonies. |
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| In what is now Nunavut on the west coast of Hudson Bay in Canada, communal feasting, dancing, singing, games, and shamanistic performances took place within a circle of bones or one of stones. |
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| These plays, which generally show the triumph of Buddhism over Bon, the earlier shamanistic religion of Tibet, may involve hundreds of musicians in the guise of masked dancers with drums, backed by a large temple orchestra. |
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| For thousands of years, ayahuasca has been used by the native people of the forest in both religious ceremonies as shamanistic and therapeutic practices. |
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| The history of smoking dates back to as early as 5000 BCE in shamanistic rituals. |
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| The Sami originally had their own shamanistic religion, but they converted to Lutheranism by Swedish missionaries in the 17th and 18th centuries. |
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| Martin Litchfield West also asserts this in relation to shamanistic initiatory rites of early Greek religious practices. |
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| The visitors got a chance to witness various dances such as Mibu Dagnam, shamanistic dance, Ali Aye Ligang, Gumrag and Selloiya. |
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| The universal features of shamanistic healing practices point to a neurological foundation underlying religious experience and spiritual healing practices. |
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| Members of the Hmong community, many of whom practice an Eastern faith with shamanistic elements, relied on the law to avoid mandatory autopsies, which offend their beliefs. |
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| Anne Solomon challenges the essentially shamanistic nature of San rock art, but significantly fails to see the historical context of southern African research. |
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