萨满教是地球北半部众多古代民族赖以信奉的一种以“万物皆灵”为精髓(即相当于其他宗教的教义)、以强烈的氏族关系为本位与以牢固的内向性为凝聚力的原始宗教。据研究,它萌生于人猿揖别后的蒙昧时代,兴起并繁荣于母系氏族社会末期。它曾广布于东北亚及北美、北欧等辽阔的寒土地上。其信仰、崇拜与祭祀是在一定范围的社会群体中自发滋生,却不具显赫、明确的创教者;其虽然没有明文规章,但可世代承袭、久 Shamanism is the essence that many ancient peoples in the northern half of the earth rely on for the essence of “all things and all spirits” (that is, the doctrine equivalent to other religions), based on strong clan relations and solid introvertedness as cohesion The original religion. According to the study, it originated in the era of ignorance of the apes, and rose and prospered in the end of the matriarchal clan society. It was widely distributed in northeast Asia and North America, northern Europe and other vast cold land. Its beliefs, worship and worship are spontaneous breeding in a certain range of social groups, but not a prominent, clear creator of the religion; although it does not expressly regulate, but can be inherited from generation to generation