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Afghan spirits of shamanism
An Ethnographic and Historical Study of Shamanism in Afghanistan They were said to have been able to communicate with jinn (spirits, from Arabic). Incense Cedar spirit, Ponderosa Pine spirit, lake spirit, lightning . In shamanic cultures it is understood that all the beings in the natural world have spirits animating and empowering them. Although shamanism dates back to the prehistoric era, one region became Afghanistan, and another became modern-day Turkmenistan. 3 มี.ค. In Central Asia the baxsi is primarily an exorcist. He is supposed to drive away the evil spirit which has possessed. healer. All Afghan shamans, irrespective of affiliation or title, acquire their powers through the control they exercise over supernatural entities called jinnd (from . Among the Kirghiz and Uighur, shamans were known as bakhsi. The Turkmen also had many shamanistic beliefs, several of which persist in Afghan Turkestan. But Shah does not make any distinction between mullah and shaman. DUPREE's general ethnography, Afghanistan, contains a few brief remarks on Afghan shamanism (, ). A useful source on Afghan shamanism is Afghanistan of the Afghans (, ) by the Afghan author, Ikbal Ali Shah. When we connect with Our Mother Earth and with the spirits of . According to ancient shamanic knowledge, there is a conscience, a spirit, an innate wisdom in everything that surrounds us. Differences · may be intentional or unintentional · hereditary or not · usually receives training from spirits, through dreams, meditation or trance. ecstasy and spirits, appear of course in the conception of shamanism advan- For more than a century and a half the Kafirs of Afghanistan have been.