A Comparison of Manchu Shaman Culture and Indian Shaman Culture

摘要

Shaman culture has played an important role in the Manchu and Indian races in the process of civilization. Both Manchu Shaman and Indian Shaman belong to the panmonotheistic, nature worship, animal worship, plant worship, totem worship, and ancestor worship which coexist and are intertw ined. However, because Manchus and Indians are based on their natural environment, social environment and their own way of life, they need to imagine and make up the spirit of the world, to have the nature of their own and psychological state attached to the gods, and each of them has set a ritual of worship of gods to show the relationship between man and spirit respectively, the forms are diverse and varied.