Shamanism is practiced in Ayyavazhi, a Hindu denomination predominantly found in South India. According to Ayyavazhi practitioners, it has been practiced...
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Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of...
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Tatvas Neetham Anbukkodimakkal Thirucchabai Ayyavazhi marriage Elunetru Muthirikkinaru Shamanism in Ayyavazhi Vatakku Vasal List of Hinduism-related topics...
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Ayyavazhi (Tamil: அய்யாவழி, Malayalam: അയ്യാവഴി Ayyāvaḻi [əjːaːvəɻi] , lit. 'Path of the Master') is a Hindu denomination that originated in South India...
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Ayya Vaikundar (redirect from Ayya Vaikundar in Ayyavazhi mythology)
the Ayyavazhi faith. The Ayyavazhis believe him to be the first and foremost Purna avatar of Eka-Paran and the god Vishnu (Narayana). As per Ayyavazhi mythology...
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mythology Christian mythology (in Western Asia) Georgian mythology Greek mythology (see Greco-Buddhism) Hindu mythology Ayyavazhi mythology Tamil mythology...
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Ayyavazhi rituals are the religious practices prevalent among the followers of Ayyavazhi. Most of them are connected with Akilam and Arul Nool and a few...
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religion Evenki shamanism Manchu shamanism Turko-Mongolic religion Altaic shamanism Burkhanism Dukha shamanism Mongolian shamanism Black shamanism Tengrism Aiyy...
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Ayyavazhi phenomenology is the phenomenological variations found in Ayyavazhi society, worship centers etc. from their holy text Akilattirattu Ammanai...
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Ayyavazhi theology is the theology of a South Indian religious Faith and officially a sect of Hinduism known as Ayyavazhi. Several fundamental theological...
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Outline of religion (section Ayyavazhi topics)
Religious war Ritual Anito Philippine shamans Bathala Dambana Ayyavazhi scriptures List of Ayyavazhi-related topics ʻAbdu'l-Bahá The Báb Baháʼí teachings Baháʼu'lláh...
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Spirit possession (redirect from Demoniacal possession in Islam)
Diószegi (12 May 2020). "Shamanism". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 20 May 2020. Shamanism, religious phenomenon centred on the shaman, a person believed...
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Ayyavazhi, a belief system originating from South India, is mentioned in a number of reports by Christian missionaries in the 19th century. In some of...
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Augur - Augustinians - Auspice - Autocephaly - Avatar - Awards - Ayyavazhi - Ayyavazhi mythology - Azazel - Aztec mythology Baal teshuva - Baal - Báb -...
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John Frum (category 1940s in the New Hebrides)
'long South America." In the 1990s, there were still reportedly over 5,000 members of the John Frum movement. Belief in John Frum is in decline, however;...
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Major religious groups (redirect from Religion in the world)
syncretizing, re-interpreting or reviving aspects of older traditions such as Ayyavazhi, Mormonism, Ahmadiyya, Jehovah's Witnesses, polytheistic reconstructionism...
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Profane, or profanity in religious use may refer to a lack of respect for things that are held to be sacred, which implies anything inspiring or deserving...
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Oracle (section In classical antiquity)
prediction. In extended use, oracle may also refer to the site of the oracle, and the oracular utterances themselves, are called khrēsmoí (χρησμοί) in Greek...
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Fetishes were commonly used in some Native American religions and practices. For example, the bear represented the shaman, the buffalo was the provider...
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Pythia (category 390s disestablishments in the Roman Empire)
of the initiatory boiling of the shaman translated from hallucinatory experience into concrete visual terms. It was in this same cauldron, probably, that...
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Apotropaic magic (redirect from Demons in Apotropaic Prayers and Incantations)
ritual in order to protect individuals by warding away evil spirits. In ancient Egypt, these household rituals (performed in the home, not in state-run...
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State religion (section Shamanism)
state-sponsored Christian church was the Armenian Apostolic Church, established in 301 CE. In Christianity, as the term church is typically applied to a place of...
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was a Dutch–German-French ethnographer and folklorist. He was born in Ludwigsburg, in the Kingdom of Württemberg (since 1871, part of the German Empire)...
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Dukun (category Asian shamanism)
folk religion Pawang Shamanism Tajul muluk Graham Harvey; Robert J. Wallis (5 February 2007). Historical Dictionary of Shamanism. Scarecrow Press. pp...
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of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe, such as in the Anishinaabe clan system. While the word totem itself is an anglicisation...
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Tongji (spirit medium) (category Shamanism in China)
expression. The Chinese differentiate a wu 巫 "shaman; healer; spirit medium" who gains control of forces in the spirit world versus a tongji who appears...
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Lunar deity (redirect from The Moon in mythology)
recorded history in various forms. Many cultures have implicitly linked the 29.5-day lunar cycle to women's menstrual cycles, as evident in the shared linguistic...
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include: Australian Aboriginal sacred sites Sacred groves (such as those in India or in Germanic cultures) Sacred mountains Sacred trees Sacred waters Specific...
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Millenarianism is the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming fundamental transformation of society, after which "all things will...
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folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. Frazer was born on 1 January 1854 in Glasgow, Scotland...
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