ACADEMICIA: AN INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH JOURNAL
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 12

The interaction of ancient religious beliefs elements of nature (based on shamanic materials)

*Associate Professor Namangan State University, Doctor of Philosophy in History (PhD) E: mail: baxtiyorm@mail.ru

Online published on 12 February, 2021.

Abstract

In this article the ethnographic views related to shamanism, one of the ancient religious beliefs, and the elements of nature in its ceremonial attributes are reflected. The connection of the Shamanic belief with nature, the changes in the ceremonial equipment (whip, ash, water, fire, human hair, etc.) of physicians working in the Fergana Valley are described in it.

Keywords

Ancient religious beliefs, Shamanism, Nature, Elements of nature, Water, Fire, Ash, Hair, Physicians, Healing processes, “Avesto”, Islam, Field ethnographic expeditions