Korean word senses marked with topical category "Paganism"

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Parent categories: Occult, Religion, Forteana, Supernatural, Culture, Pseudoscience, Folklore, Society, Sciences
Subcategories: Shamanism

Total 53 word senses

• 강신무 (Noun) a type of shaman or priest in Korean shamanism (Korea's indigenous religion) traditionally found in northern Korea, who are personally directly selected by the gods to serve as their oracles in sessions of trance possession, in contrast to hereditary priests of the south who merely inherit their position and do not have any personal contact with the divine; today the dominant stream of shamanism e…
• 거리 (Noun) a component ceremony of a gut ritual
• 공수 (Noun) speech uttered by a Korean shaman in a trance state, thought to be from a deity or ancestor who has possessed the shaman
• 긴업 (Noun) auspicious rat snake; the household spirit of wealth, in the physical form of a rat snake
• 넋 (Noun) soul; spirit
• 넋두리 (Noun) a procedure in Korean shamanic funerals in which the shaman speaks with the voice of the deceased and bids farewell to the bereaved family
• 단골 (Noun) the clientele of a shaman, who regularly consult the shaman for ritual purposes
• 단골 (Noun) a hereditary village priest from southern Korea who officiates rituals at a fixed shrine
• 대령 (Noun) deity, divinity
• 대한국 (Proper name) China
• 도사 (Noun) male shaman; male priest of Korean shamanism, the indigenous religion of the country
• 도사 (Noun) An honorific title for various deities in Korean folk religion
• 돌하르방 (Noun) a stone statue used to protect villages in Jeju Island
• 마달 (Noun) ritual songs and invocations memorized by shamans
• 만신 (Noun) female trance possession shaman; priestess of historically northern traditions of Korean shamanism, the indigenous religion of the country
• 말미 (Noun) the ritual narration of the tale of Princess Bari
• 맞이 (Noun) Short for 맞이굿 (majigut, “welcoming ritual for the gods”).
• 무 (Noun) shamanism; in particular, Korean shamanism, the indigenous religion of Korea
• 무 (Noun) shaman; priest of Korean shamanism
• 무 (Syllable) More information(eumhun reading: 없을 무 (eopseul mu)) (MC reading: 無 (MC mju))(MC reading: 无 (MC mju|mu))(eumhun reading: 굳셀 무 (gutsel mu)) (MC reading: 武 (MC mjuX))(eumhun reading: 춤출 무 (chumchul mu)) (MC reading: 舞 (MC mjuX))(eumhun reading: 무역할 무 (muyeokhal mu)) (MC reading: 貿 (MC muwH))(eumhun reading: 힘쓸 무 (himsseul mu)) (MC reading: 務 (MC mjuH))(eumhun reading: 무성할 무 (museonghal mu)) (MC readi…
• 무녀 (Noun) shamaness, female shaman; female priestess of Korean shamanism, the indigenous religion of the country
• 무당 (Noun) shaman; priest of Korean shamanism, the indigenous religion of the country
• 무당 (Noun) female shaman
• 무속인 (Noun) shaman; priest of Korean shamanism, the indigenous religion of the country
• 무악 (Noun) Korean shamanic music
• 무지내 (Noun) knowledgeable shaman/indigenous priest
• 박수 (Noun) male shaman; male priest of Korean shamanism, the indigenous religion of the country
• 방 (Suffix) Attached to deities and rituals to denote a shaman deemed particularly skilled at holding said ritual.
• 법사 (Noun) any male shaman
• 보살 (Noun) shamaness; priestess of Korean shamanism, the indigenous religion of the country
• 산신 (Noun) Sansin (a mountain deity in Korean folk belief traditionally depicted as an old man with a tiger)
• 삼신 (Noun) [~할머니] the usually female deity of childbirth, often depicted as a crone
• 서낭신 (Noun) The patron deity of a village in Korean shamanism.
• 선무당 (Noun) an inexperienced novice priest or shaman
• 세습무 (Noun) a type of village priest in Korean shamanism (Korea's indigenous religion) traditionally found in southern Korea, who inherit their position within priestly lineages and do not have any personal contact with the divine, in contrast to trance-possession shamans of the north who are personally, directly selected by the gods to serve as their oracles; today mostly displaced by the latter even in Sout…
• 세존 (Proper name) an indigenous agricultural deity often associated with the Buddha
• 손님네 (Proper name) the deities of epidemic (historically smallpox in particular), euphemistically referred to as "the guest folk"
• 승방 (Noun) dormitories in Buddhist monasteries
• 승방 (Noun) a priestess of Korean folk religion from the southern coastline of the peninsula
• 승방 (Noun) Buddhist monastery
• 신법 (Noun) ritual regulations abided by Korean shamans
• 신부모 (Noun) a senior priest who mentors a novice, guiding them into their new vocation
• 신자식 (Noun) a novice priest who is being mentored by a senior one
• 심방 (Noun) initiated priest of the folk religion of Jeju Island
• 애동제자 (Noun) a novice priest or shaman, who has just been initiated and is still being educated
• 업 (Noun) [~신(神)] A household spirit of wealth, often thought to appear in the form of various wild animals.
• 접신 (Noun) entering a state of trance possession; entering a state of communion with the divine world
• 조왕 (Noun) kitchen god
• 천지신명 (Noun) all the gods
• 큰굿 (Noun) a large-scale shamanic ritual
• 큰굿 (Noun) a large-scale shamanic ritual; in particular, a fourteen-day shamanic ritual regularly held in Jeju Island, which also functions as a priestly initiation rite
• 큰무당 (Noun) a great, accomplished priest or shaman
• 풀이 (Noun) shamanic narrative recounting the origin myth of a divinity

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