Siberian & Mongolian Shamanism

[Ci Celli Ddu]

An interesting and informative site:

Circle of Tengerism (http://www.tengerism.org/)

Circle of Tengerism is a organization dedicated to the preservation of Siberian and Mongolian shaman traditions.

The purpose of this website is to educate Westerners about our ancient beliefs and to keep our traditions alive. Circle of Tengerism is associated with Golomt tuv, the official shaman association of Mongolia.

[MythMath]

There was a show on PBS that looked at archeological
and genetic evidence linking Amazon warriors
(later the Sarmatian culture) with the modern Mongols...

Link: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_amazon/index.html

I assumed at the time when they mentioned the term
Warrior/Priestess, that the women were the shamans as well...

I skimmed through your link,
but I didn't see anything info regarding
women as shamans (in Siberia/Mongolia)...?

[Ci Celli Ddu]

I skimmed through your link,
but I didn't see anything info regarding
women as shamans (in Siberia/Mongolia)...?

Im not aware of there being any gender restrictions to the role of the Shaman in Northern Asia, but then it's not my area of expertese. Most if not all of these people live a communal nomadic lifestyle where everyone has to share the load workwise, more than that I don't know.

[Dragon]

In the Siberian tribes a man or a woman may be a shaman it seems. There was a shaman who came to the states to teach about a decade ago, upon his passing his daughter took up the reins. She was not kicked out of her tribe, nor did she implode at the command of the spirits she served; when she talked about whom was chosen amongst the tribe to serve she used the term children, not "young boys' or "young men", just children. Further research may verify this, but based upon what I have observed so far gender does not seem to be an issue so long as one can "git 'er dun".


~D~

[Ci Celli Ddu]

Yes, quite so Dragon:

Shamanka & Saman (http://www.tengerism.org/shamanka.html)

Shaman was a word that was used for both men and women by the Evenk and Buryat peoples