#korean shaman

[sioma709iie]

Morty (Matsuba) as a Korean shamanist

He pulls off the look quite well :^]

[sunwhashaman]

<Prayer>

Might you not seen them, It will be always there

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As a daughter of Mokosh, maiden of Kostroma, and a mudang, artist, lover, wife, a friend. For those who seek the answer about their life, I pray myself today again.

Such a hard things that you got that all responsibilities, and yet its such an honor, and a gift from the gods. They guide us, to Understand who i am, being brave in this world, helping to be a gudiance of people, and the spirits and souls. The bridge of the heaven and people. I reassuring deeply today and moving on again.

And i am grateful that i they give such a talent of drawing in to a page. sometimes its not enough with sentences. Art showing many more things we cannot feel. I hope i can draw more of them i saw, i felt in the canvas in the future.

Shrine Haewolwha, shaman Sunwha 2023.6

[jareckiworld]

Hyon Gyon — Nobody Cares About Your Misery (wooden sculpture and mixed media, 2018)

[without-ado]

A Ghost Day l Min HyunWoo l Contemporary Korean dance

[artistic-harlom-world]

What I'm cooking rn? definitely something soon ofc for all you RC9GN fans there! sorta 3rd season type of AU, with new Stuff coming soon!

[53rdcenturyhero]

MASH S5. ep .12. Exorcism

The priestess is a mudang shaman. Her attire and dance are real. My guess is that she wasn’t credited because she was not an actress. Southern California has many Koreans who follow the ancient ways and it’s not implausible that they asked permission for a real one. Her dance is probably a dodanggut which removes evil spirits and protects a community (and would be appropriate to bless the set where M*A*S*H was filmed in reality, not just the compound in the show).

Klinger might be interested in the fact that these shamans cross-dress because they embody both male and female deities. I would love to know what inspired Jay Folb to write this episode, which covers the folkloric link between what we think of as superstitions and traditional beliefs.

Bluejay Young blog reply on MASH4077TV.COM which is a greatly helpful add-on to the site post.

Credit this ep for my lifelong study of comparative religions. Each plot event and dialogue in it is a teaching and learning point with absolutely nothing wasted.

[assmaster-8000]

this is my oc's legacy

[neo-zone]

There are total three major possession scenes of Bong-gil in the movie, but this one, this one creeped me out the most. Shout out to Lee Do-hyun's top tier level of acting

[jasminebeanbun]

Decompressing this morning with a doodle from my Korean Shamanism AU: Lucifer as an iteration of Geumsong Shin 금성 신 (Golden Star/Venus Deity). Inspiration for his god regalia was taken from one of the main gods in the Korean pantheon, Chilseong Shin, god of the Big Dipper and fate. Creative liberties were taken with his gat (the hat) and the feathered fan that is often carried by sky and wind gods.

(Also had to include the sotdae, because duck totems.)

And more gugak fusion inspo music until everyone else loves it as much as I do:

Color coming soon!

[quibbs126]

So like, are we not talking about the whole “Longan Dragon canonically being a parent, with their hatchlings being the enemies we see in the final stage of Lustrous Longan Palace” thing that happened? Because I feel like this isn’t being discussed much, at least not over here

Images from Twitter I got this morning regarding this whole thing if that helps context

Edit: for further notice, this has been proven false and there were more messages, we now know that the two guards are simply Longan’s underlings, not hatchlings. Sorry, I probably should have updated when we got that info, I was just too lazy to

[chaoticpersontale]

EXHUMA

[ooahanjs]

Cursed by Love: The Story of a Broken Spirit

What else is there to say in this world, besides hurling curses? I asked myself that question. Having lost everything, all that remained was anger, despair, and an endless stream of profanity. “18! Damn witch!” That was the nickname I gave myself—a woman too despicable to live. No, in truth, I deserved to die. A lunatic like me had no right to exist. I had willingly hurled myself into the…

[thedramagarden]

Café Minamdang (2022) | South Korean Drama

[maxellminidisc]

Its interesting to me how the concept of possession or even "leaving the body" without dying exists across so many cultures. Something about us since who knows when has known that we exist in some sort of shelled state, huh?

[andromeda3116]

if every priest in the world had to be like father mulcahy, the world would be a much better place

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Shamanism (excerpts)

From the book, The Korean Mind: Understanding Contemporary Korean Culture

Korean Sociologists say that the depersonalizing and dehumanizing aspects of Confucianism contributed enormously to the continued survival and popularity of shamanism because shamanistic rituals provided direct, immediate relief to many of the intellectual and emotional problems caused by the strict Confucian code of conduct….

Korean educational writer In Hoe Kim said in an article entitled “The Values of Korean People,” published in 1979 (Seoul, Munumsa), that the traditional shamanistic beliefs of Koreans had become identical with their most basic goals –a long life that was peaceful, mentally and physically comfortable, envied by others, and ensured continuation of the family line. But the very things that made shamanism an “easy” religion for people to accept and follow had a negative side that also fundamentally affected Korean attitudes and behavior.

Recent studies of shamanism conducted by the Korean Institute of Policy Studies (KIPS) say that shamanism promoted childish submission to the supernatural, precluded self-reflection, and discouraged any attempt to develop self-esteem, to improve one’s own character or habits, or to be the master of one’s fate and take pride in creative efforts of any kind. On the plus side, shamanism valued human life and human happiness and sought to maintain a harmonious relationship between people and the cosmos at large, from local nature spirits to the gods of the universe.

While the KIPS noted that the general influence of shamanism on people was that it made them passive and submissive, the flip side was that if their lives were disrupted by any outside force, regardless of its source, they were prone to blindly lash out with extraordinary violence.

The Korean Mind: Understanding Contemporary Korean Culture Boyé Lafayette De Mente    ISBN: 978-0804842716    Reprint edition 2012

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Shamanism is at the heart of Sun Myung Moon’s church

Sun Myung Moon – Emperor, and God

Holy Grounds and the Shamanic Guardians of the Five Directions in Moon’s church

Shamanism: The Spirit World of Korea Any understanding of the so-called New Religions of Korea would be difficult without some knowledge of shamanistic influences upon them.

Fear and Loathing at Cheongpyeong

The Moons’ God is not the God of Judeo-Christianity

Hananim and other Spirits in Korean Shamanism