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 ...

Made from cotton, silk, leather, and feathers, the ensemble is, in fact, an early 20th century Mongolian shaman's costume called Oracle’s Attire. A set of small masks that represent jokers show ...

A shaman, referred to as “Grandfather-Spirit,” wearing a fringed costume and face-covering headdress topped with painted-on eyes, dances in a small hut structure. He emits a throaty growl ...

gentle Mongolian shaman and Maralaa, a young woman who takes him outside his world into the, for him, alien urban world of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s capital city. First-timer Tergel Bold-Erdene ...

Ze is a timid 17-year-old shaman. He studies hard at school to succeed in the cold, callous society of modern Mongolia, while communing with his ancestral spirit to help those in his community.

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 ...

The film, which premiered in Venice and is screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, follows the relationship between Ze, a 17-year-old, gentle Mongolian shaman and Maralaa ...