Shamanism In The Mongoloid Tribe

Chofia Basumatary

Course Coordinator: Dr. Amit Singh

MA English- Native American Literature

28 November 2015

Tradition of Shamanism in the Mongoloid Tribes

The expression "Mongol" began from a tribe called "Mengwushiwei" in the Chinese book Jiu Tang Shu (The Ancient History of the Tang Dynasty), written in the tenth century. "Mengwushiwei" was changed to "Mongol" surprisingly amid the expanse of Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368). It gradually turned into the indigenous name of numerous tribes. The Mongols initially lived along the east bank of the Erguna River in the centre of Mongolia. Around the seventh century, they began to relocate towards the meadow in the west. In the twelfth century, they lived in the upper ranges of Onon River, Kerulen River,

A Shaman is someone present in all the native cultures a ‘ghost-healer’ of sorts who was responsible for the blessings, protection, healing the ones that seem unearthly and sometimes as weathermen bringing about the desired climates by invoking and satisfying the invisible cosmic forces that bind the Earth into one single entity. The distinction in the middle of spirit and soul is clarified as that just human beings are liable of having a spirit, while soul was an inconceivable idea that could be identified or associated only with a wide range of common

The Mongolian world perspective looks from north to south. Therefore, south is known as the "front" course. Correspondingly, north is called by the same word as "behind" in Mongolian. The right or western side of the world is viewed as being male generally, and the home of the big-hearted sky spirits (tenger). The eastern, left, half of the world is viewed as female, and the sky spirits of that course are accepted to bring ailment and disturbance.

Galsan’s 1999 publication of Shamanic songs titled Oracle Stones as Red as the Sun: Songs of the Shaman , later translated in 2004, contain about nine lyrical compositions which are astounding, profound and very easily comprehensible. In his composition titled To The Sky, the poet very beautifully transforms the anthropocentric world into that which lives in a cosmic stability. In this lyric, Galsan invokes the Earth, Air and Water in a very friendly manner and that for doing so he has transformed himself into them as could be seen in the lines:

I have transformed myself

Because I had