The alien rulers, accordingly, showed interest in the Chinese shamans as well as in the shamanistic aspects of Mahayana Buddhism.
Closer research has shown that Shih Huang-ti was evidently an average man without any great gifts, that he was superstitious, and shared the tendency of his time to mystical and shamanistic notions.
His priests preserved their old Shamanistic character; the ritual they celebrated was one of spells and incantations, of magical rites and ceremonies.
Among the people generally the old Shamanistic faith had never been eradicated; it was but partially overlaid with the religious conceptions of the Semite, and sorcery and witchcraft flourished down to the latest days of Babylonian history.
Shamanism, however, pure and simple, is incompatible with an advanced state of culture, and as time went on the Shamanistic faith of the Sumerians tended toward a rudimentary form of polytheism.
The purpose of Shamanistic institutions is to control the conduct of the members of the tribe in relation to mythic personages, the mysterious beings in which the savage men believe.
Thus it is that Shamanistic government is held to be of as great importance as tribal government, and the Shamans are the peers of the chiefs.
In many tribes, perhaps in all, the people are organized into Shamanistic societies; but that these societies are invariably recognized is not certain.
The songs of a good many non-shamanistic narratives are danced to when there is a festival or gathering.
This alphabet was at once adopted by the tribe for all purposes for which writing can be used, including the recording of their shamanistic prayers and ritualistic ceremonies.
Color symbolism plays an important part in the shamanistic system of the Cherokees, no less than in that of other tribes.
How does the prospective shaman seized with his fit know about the shamanistic drum that forms a necessary accessory of his office?
The culture of the Mongol proper about the beginning of the thirteenth century was that of an essentially primitive people, sharing the shamanistic beliefs of their general habitat and ignorant of writing.
He can derive his knowledge, however informally, only as the member of a group holding certain definite views as to the shamanistic office.
The Shamanistic peoples of Siberia, says Georgi, "hold evil to be a self-existing substance which they call by an infinitude of particular names.
One of the most conspicuous features of the religion of the Pomo, who are south of the Yuki, is their shamanistic fetishes.
Perhaps the greatest development of the practice of fasting in North America occurs in connection with the acquisition of shamanistic power.
With them also the peculiar mythological and shamanistic conceptions typical of the region are found in the purest form.
There is a Taikomol ceremony in which this character is impersonated, and which is shamanistic at least to the degree of being performed to cure an individual of sickness.
In some casesshamanistic exhibitions of magic were included in the ceremony.
Shamanistic beliefs and practices also varied, although there was everywhere a clear idea of spirits personally acquired and controlled by the medicine-man.
The Northwestern area is not only exceptional in being the principal one within the state where this deliberate seeking of shamanistic power is prevalent.
The most common way of acquiring shamanistic power in California, as in so many other parts of the world, is by dreaming.
That is to say it was primarily the persons affected by these occurrences, and next to these such as were engaged in acts of intense worship or shamanistic practices, who were prohibited from using certain or all foods.
As in most parts of the world, belief in shamanistic power was centered most strongly about disease and death, which among most tribes were not only believed to be dispellable but to be entirely caused by shamans.
Here the majority of the public ceremonies, like the rattlesnake ceremony that has been mentioned, were of the nature of shamanistic performances.
The delinquent is very commonly of a superstitious habit of mind; he is a great believer in luck, spells, divination and destiny, and in omens and shamanistic ceremony.
It appears to have been only gradually that other elements than those of efficient service of the master found their way into the stock of priestly or shamanistic instruction.
Regular Indian doctors were forbidden to treat members of their own families, a prohibition which appears not to have extended to a non-shamanistic curer.
This last statement clearly indicates the other attitude about Water Babies; they are often guardian spirits of Washo who have special power, particularly shamanistic curing power.
Other shadows of the shamanistic past seem to lie heavily on the minds of modern Washo peyotists.
There is little doubt that he believed he had been approached by spirits offering him shamanistic power.
As the number of active peyotists dwindle (d'Azevedo and Merriam 1957), one gets the impression that the shamanistic forms may again become a more important part of Washo life.
In short, until his shamanistic education was interrupted by white man's schooling, he was a shaman's apprentice.
In light of Washo views about receiving shamanistic power, it would appear that my informant was suggesting that this visitation was a Water Baby making its patronage known.
Another informant, the man who was cured by his mother--curiously another graduate of the Stewart School and outwardly a progressive Indian--was a veritable fountain of shamanistic knowledge.
Peyote curing differs only in detail from shamanistic curing as these two stories may illustrate.
The informant with gallstones did not attend meetings to have his ailment cured; rather, he used water and tobacco, traditional adjuncts to shamanistic curing.
Despite a belief in and a dependence on shamanistic curing or its latter-day counterpart, the peyote curing session, most Washo are willing patients of white doctors.
He did not deny his shamanistic practices but was less than willing to discuss them in detail.
Few, if any, Washo over forty have not attended a shamanistic curing ceremony and many have been patients.
The foundations of this faith and of this magic are an inheritance from the remotest past, from a period, to put it shortly, of shamanistic faith in spirits and souls, of shamanistic magic.
About sixty-five per cent of their medicinal plants were actually valuable medicinally, the remainder being employed in a shamanistic or superstitious manner.
The medicine man depended largely upon his reputation and often cured fancied diseases by shamanistic suggestions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shamanistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
