The Eurasian Shamanism: Num-Torum, Korean Buddhism and Shinto

By Nurlan Namatov, Otto Von Feigenblatt, Akira Asakura

The territory of Northern Eurasia, Central Asia, Mongolia and Inner Asia, Korea and Japan populated Finno-Ugric and Altaic peoples. These people have a common language structure, mentality and religious worldview. The religious worldview of these people based on Eurasian shamanism. Shamanism includes: 1. The Cult of Heaven (Num-Torum in Finno-Ugric peoples, Tengri in Turkic-Mongol peoples, Shang-Di in the northern Chinese and Manchurs peoples, Korean Shamanism and the Japanese Shinto) 2. The cult of ancestor spirits 3. Animism: the cult of the wolf, the bear, bull .. 4. The cult of nature spirits The population of Finno-Ugric and Altaic peoples were warlike nomads: the Huns, the proto-Hungarians, Tataro-Mongols, Turks, Manchurs and northern Chinese tribes. Women were warriors and had equal rights with men. Concept the cult of Heaven recognized the variability of worship Heaven through Christianity, Buddhism and Islam.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3659753122
• ISBN13: 9783659753121
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"