Fu Yuguang, a native Manchu scholar of shamanic and Manchu studies from the Jilin Institute for Ethnology, has been committed to ethnological and anthropological research on the myths, rituals, and cultures of Altaic peoples in northern China for over fifty years and published many influential works.

• 1. Introduction  2. Northern Shamanic Divination  3. The Northern Mythic Heritage  4. The Manchu Creation Myth "War in Heaven"  5. Tribal Myths and Ancestor Worship  6. Spirit Idols  7. The Northern Shaman

Fu Yuguang, a native Manchu scholar of shamanic and Manchu studies from the Jilin Institute for Ethnology, has been committed to ethnological and anthropological research on the myths, rituals, and cultures of Altaic peoples in northern China for over fifty years and published many influential works.

• 1. Introduction  2. Northern Shamanic Divination  3. The Northern Mythic Heritage  4. The Manchu Creation Myth "War in Heaven"  5. Tribal Myths and Ancestor Worship  6. Spirit Idols  7. The Northern Shaman

Fu Yuguang, a native Manchu scholar of shamanic and Manchu studies from the Jilin Institute for Ethnology, has been committed to ethnological and anthropological research on the myths, rituals, and cultures of Altaic peoples in northern China for over fifty years and published many influential works.

• 1. Introduction  2. Northern Shamanic Divination  3. The Northern Mythic Heritage  4. The Manchu Creation Myth "War in Heaven"  5. Tribal Myths and Ancestor Worship  6. Spirit Idols  7. The Northern Shaman