Flore-A�l Surun | 10,000 Spirits
� Flore-A�l Surun - All Rights Reserved After my return from Hanoi where I launched my H?u �?ng: The Spirit Mediums of Viet Nam photo book, I am naturally keen to start on a new long term project, and researching Asian spirit mediumship, I found Korean shamanism to have many similarities to the Vietnamese H?u �?ng rituals I spent almost two years photographing. By the way, it is said that shamanism is what humans followed before the advent of organized religion. The Korean shamans are called " mudang ", and are usually female (in contrast to the "gender equality" amongst Vietnamese spirit mediumship practitioners). They are known to perform ceremonies called gut in local villages, to cure illness, bring good luck or plentiful harvests, banish evil spirits or demons, and ask favors of the gods. After a death, the mudang also help the soul of the departed find the path to heaven. They communicate with ancestral spirits, nature spir...