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Using traditional knowledge and ritual practices, the shamans heal, prevent sickness and revitalize nature.
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Besides the shamans, the Yeongdeunggut is primarily supported by the female divers and ship owners who prepare food and offer sacrifices.
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Village shamans perform a series of rituals to the goddess of the winds (Grandmother Yeondeung), the Dragon King Yongwang and mountain gods.
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It's just that astrologers, shamans, and natural healers have none of them.
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Early shamans, Davis wrote in "TechGnosis, " became ecstatic technicians of the sacred.
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Shamans and others in the community would experience visions, she said, and then ask expert carvers in the community to make a mask based on that vision.
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This is, after all, a country that just inaugurated an annual Hero of Atheism award. (This year's winner was Sima Nan, a 43-year-old ex-journalist who debunks the "superhuman" feats of local shamans on his TV show.) "The sincere advocacy of freedom of religious belief is based on our understanding of the dialectical materialistic theory, " says Ye Xiaowen, director of the State Council's Religious Affairs Bureau.
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