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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

According to ancient shamanism, the Mongolian practices of worshipping sacred sites are based on the belief in invisible deities of the natural surroundings. The practice builds a sense of community ...

The mystics call them the "weapons of the gods." The Kremlin quickly dismissed claims linking Putin's Mongolia visit to shamanic consultations, calling it "untrue." However, his history of ...