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 ...

There are shamanic magazines, books, even a reality-TV show that aired earlier this year, the “All Mongolian Shaman Competition”, pitting holy man against holy man in challenges such as ...

From the Steppes With Shamanism: the Hu Makes Hits With Praises to the Sky Deity (RNS) — An eight-man heavy metal band from Mongolia known as The Hu has done what few thought could happen in the ...

Mongolian shamanism may have owed its great vitality and dynamism to the fact that it had already absorbed all kinds of tantric elements when Buddhism first reached Mongolia.

Their success — The Hu is the first Mongolian band to top a Billboard chart (in 2019 and they’ve been streamed 780 million times on Spotify — arguably has little to do with their message ...

(RNS) — Hair flying, war banners waving, a Mongolian heavy metal band sings of shamanist spirituality and their devotion to the chief embodiment of the sky-deity Tengri.

Decked out in black war regalia out of the 13th century, they sing invocations to a Mongolian sky deity and odes to 13th century warlord Genghis Khan. Not that anyone seems to really notice.