Eurasian Indigenous Religions

Eurasian Indigenous Religions

"Eurasian Indigenous Religions", sometimes called "Eurasian Folk Paganism" or "Eurasian Shamanism" is a collective term for traditional indigenous religions found across the Eurasian super continent (Asia and Europe). Many of them hold shamanic and animist beliefs. It contrasts with historical polytheist faiths because they are based on tribal systems and not large settled populations.

Forms

European

*Slavic Mythology is the ancient beliefs of Slavs
*Estonian mythology is the traditional beliefs of the Estonian people.
*Finnish Paganism is the traditional beliefs of the Finnish people.
*Hungarian religion is the traditional beliefs of the Hungarian people.
*Folk Christianity
*Albanian mythology is the traditional beliefs of the Albanian people.
* [Romani religion|Romani mythology] is the traditional beliefs of the Gypsy people.

Asian

*Bön is the traditional religion of Tibet. It has recently been officially absorbed into Tibetan Buddhism by the Dalai Lama.
*Siberian religion is the traditional religions of the Siberian tribes.
*Tengriism is the traditional religion of the Mongol tribes.
*Folk Hinduism

hamanism

While shamanism had a strong tradition in Europe before the rise of monotheism, shamanism remains as a traditional, organized religion in Uralic, Altaic people and Huns; and also in Mari-El and Udmurtia, two semi-autonomous provinces of Russia with large Finno-Ugric minority populations. It was widespread in Europe during the Stone Age, and continued to be practiced throughout the Iron Age by the various Teutonic tribes and the Fino-Baltic peoples.

See also Sami shamanism, Finnish mythology, Astuvansalmi rock paintings, Huns , Tengri and the appropriate parts of Shamanism in Siberia.

Some peoples, which used to live in Siberia, have wandered to their present locations since then. For example, many Uralic peoples live now outside Siberia. The original location of the Proto-Uralic peoples (and its extent) is debated. Combined phytogeographical and linguistic considerations (distribution of various tree species and the presence of their names in various Uralic languages) suggest that this area was north of Central Ural Mountains and on lower and middle parts of Ob River. The ancestors of Hungarian people or Magyars have wandered from their ancestral proto-Uralic area to the Pannonian Basin. Shamanism is no more a living practice among Hungarians, but some remnants have been reserved as fragments of folklore, in folktales, customs. See shamanistic remnants in Hungarian folklore.

Tuva is the only region in the world to have shamanism as an official religion.


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