Have you ever heard “Moo Dang”, Korean Shaman.

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They called Korean Shaman "Moo Dang". The origin of Moo Dang is uncertain.
But we suppode that it came from the prehistory age. At that time, religion and political powers were not devided. So Moo Dang had had not only religious but also political leader for long time.

Nowdays Moo Dang’s roles are limited only in the primitive religion, fortune teller and playing special ceremony to prevent evil spirits, etc.

These photos are Moo Dang playing ceremony

I took a photo of Moo Dang, When I had traveled 2 months ago.
It seemed that Moo Dang having a ceremony to receive spiritual power from somewhere.I posted about that

On the business trip, I could’ve taken some photos of Moo Dang’s houses.
At first, their house seems same, but there are big differences among their houses.
I heard that there were strict classifications of hierarchy.

The lowest Moo Dang’s house has only red and white flag

There are Korean national flag and red and white flag in Middle class house.

The highest and strongest house can use the symbol of Buddha.
It looks like hagen cross of NAZI, but quite different from that.
At first colour is red, and the end of symbol goes to opposite direction.

This house can use dried bamboo pole.

In korean Buddhist temple, there are such places to serve the traditional spiritual existence, for example mountain god.

Buddhist temple prepared special place for traditional religion to appease their opposition.

That’s why Moo Dang have been using Buddhist Flag.

I found strange thing. The house of Moo Dang , who has highest spiritual level, looked being almost collapsed.

I heard that the more stronger spiritual power Moo Dang has, the more difficult their live is.

Does your place have this kinds of primitive religion yet ?

You can say superstitious, but it is not enough to say just superstitious.

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@slowwalker another great post what was ya doing in korea ? thx for the upvote on my etherum post your a star

It is very interesting to know the culture of Korea thanks to you @slowwalker! Christianity prevails in Ukraine, which preserved many pagan traditions.

보기 힘든 장면을 사진에 담으셨네요
이제는 보기 힘든 장면이죠
출장잘 다녀 왔습니다.
1000은 제가 채웠습니다. ㅋㅋㅋ

a very interesting post today, @slowwalker

I know a little about Shamans because our native North American indigenous people practice their own forms of ritualistic worship closely related to Nature - so worshipping the mountain god would be similar.

I understand that some of these shrines in Korea have fallen into ruin but lately many are being rebuilt.

You are very respectful of others' beliefs - I admire that.

BTW, I wasn't aware that there were different classes of houses displaying flags and symbols and that the Buddhist symbol was the highest!

Very fascinating, my friend :)

Thank you so much for reading

you're very welcome, @slowwalker

Super photos and nice educational and interesting post, thanks :)

🤗Thank you

Wow that`s extremely out of my realm. Thank you for showing us that fascinating world, in my reality people have fancier cars not different flags lol, pretty mind blowing!

Thank you so much

lol

Thank you for making me realize I know so little about Asian culture. I knew something about Japan but there are just fascinating traditions all over the place. For Romania I won't say there are many things left when I think of superstitions and traditions. At least, not with such a big impact. Being for the last 2000 years at the intersection of multiple cultures and religions made us loose the ones we previously had. So it's even more amazing to find out the diversity we have in the world.

Thank you for your comment

very cool outfits

Thank you so much

its kind of sad that we must imply that the flag has nothing to do with nazi ideas, instead of realizing how wrong hitler's idea of equality was lol

very nice

와, 이런 정성스러운 글이라니! 추천 안 할 수가 없습니다.

Never heard of it before. The first flag looks like polish flag!

Also the history of the swastika is really interesting. There are some theories that ,before it was used by Nazi, this cross symbolised four aspects of nature - the sun, wind, water and soil.

Thank you for this article!

Thank you so much
Your explanation is interesting
It came from Greek philosophy

Thanks for sharing this @slowwalker
The culture of a people should always be appreciated. It is what keeps them going.

always appreciate your work and ... following you!
please do stay in touch.

Yeap
Thank you

You're welcome

저는 무당의 깃발에 저런 차이가 있는지 몰랐네요.
하나 배워갑니다. ^^

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Thanks for sharing your pictures with us...
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Congratulations @slowwalker
You took 12 place in my Top 100 of posts

Awesome story, thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much

i wanna go to korea

Absolutely

I am german. Kind of uncompfortable to see those symbols in a different meaning.

I understand your feeling.
But it is quite different

It looks disturbing but its association in Asia and India is completely different. :-)

I'm korean/german ... its fine with me :)

Ahhhh well, that is interesting indeed! :-)
Ist ja witzig!

😅😂🤣💖

Yea Yea Yea :-D

Moo Dang? Interesting post, thanks for sharing! :)

Very nice photos , i like those Korean thing :)

thank you for sharing those beautiful pictures

Thank you so much

I have not heared of Moo Dang but thanks to following you, I just come across this post and learnt about it and the great culture of Korea. Pictures are beautiful, keep it up and lets stay in touch. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for reading @charles1

Welcome, feel free to check out my latest posts . More success to you.

I'm Korean and never knew about this, it was good reading this 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Thank you so much

Very interesting, have not seen anyting like it thanks for taking us onyour jouney.

Thank you so much

Nice post @slowwalker

Thank you so much

@slowwalker Yes, do not forget to visit me.

I hope you gonna post more posts like this ! :)

very odd, I feel like the internet and education would change this

Thank you for sharing more cultural aspects of Korea, it is eye-opening and also a sense of familiarity at the same time in some ways :)

I did nazi the universal symbol of peace coming.

I saw NAZI stuff and was like wtf.

The symbol was in existence before the Nazis used it, long before =)

Yes I know but now it's associated mostly with them.

Maybe in the western world :)

So that's how they are called. Usually seen them in Korean movies.

You already knew it

By the way, do they really have this power?

A wonderful post about the culture of your country!

Thank you so much

the symbol is very old and nothing to do with nazi - see upanishads

I love traditions

I've never heard of 'Moo Dang' before.
I guess I've learnt something new today.
Thanks slowwalker

Thank you for reading

Many thanks for enlightening us about foreign cultures, upvoted!

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hey i like your Photography and content keep posting stuff like this and please also upvote and
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A very interesting post .. hopefully useful and a place to share.

hi @slowwalker , thats beutiful korea...

Hi @slowwalker!
My culture is the same - We have many shaman that travel and connect to the spirit world. It is always interesting to learn new culture! Thank you for sharing!

Thank you so much

There are some primitive religions in Cambodia too... improving my Khmer language skills so I can learn more about it! It is so interesting to learn about other cultures. Such a great post @slowwalker!

Thank you so much 🙋‍♂️

Oh, you, as always, please us with interesting stories!))) Many thanks)))

Thank y😉u

Have a nice day!))

Nice article, thanks for sharing. 100% upvoted.@chanthasam

Good Clicks, especially of the House ..

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