Portraits of Sound #28 - Shaman Gennadiy (Ceremony)

Artist: DJ Furth Edition: 1/1 Gennadiy is descended from an ancient line of Buryat shamans. His particular form of practice, called darkhan or blacksmith shamanism, involves licking a red-hot iron and blowing on those who come to him for help in order to clarify their energies and purge them of their problems. He shared with us the ongoing revival of shamanism in the region, “Before, under the communists, they didn’t understand. But people are beginning to understand now. Whenever something is wrong, they are coming to us, to the shamans. And we explain to them, we clarify, that you need to live like this or you need to live like this, get on your road, find your road, do not be mista...View all