Religion of the Dulong

The Dulong support up to nowadays his traditional religion. An animism that according to the students has been common to the first stages of the human development, which considers that all the things have his spirit, so much the phenomena of the nature, like the ancestors. Since we see in spite of his primitive origin, it is not very distant of the most modern philosophical avant-gardes.

The religion is much tied to his everyday life. In such a way that most of his activities fit to a few norms sanctified by the tradition. The illnesses and other misfortunes are attributed to the demons and bogeys. To help the common person to survive in this world filled with bogeys, the shamans direct the rites destined to obtain the favor of the spirits, generally gifts of wine and sacrifices of chickens, pigs and cows.

There are two types of shamans, called Namusa, who treat illnesses, and the called Duomusa specializing in conjurations and curses. When they do not have religious activity that to realize they make the living as the others.

His principal gods are:

Jubolang, the god of the mountains.

Shenghua, that of the trees.

Waqiang bulang, that of the water.

As well as the Goddess of the Forests.

They believe that every malignant spirit can cause a certain illness. This way Pomolang is responsible for the intestine pain, Mulang of that of eyes and head, Jibulang of other illnesses in general.

The cult frames the ancestors in this animism. In the funerals it is a question of trying that the dead person returns to the ground of the ancestors and his bogey is not bothering to the alive ones. He is buried generally with all his belongings, since they believe that the things also have to be able. Then there is celebrated a big holiday during which nobody works.

Sometimes instead of burying him, realizes a cremation or a "burial in the water"

In the religious world of the Dulong it is important to consult to the spirits in numerous occasions. For it they have a series of systems of divination, as:
The divination for the rooster consists of taking to a rooster for the neck, and axfisiarle. of taking him then as the paws with the hand, and him of turning before releasing it. If the paws finish together it is auspicioso, if not, perniciously.

Divination for egg: that consists of pressing an egg for the fortune teller when the person rises a question, and if it breaks the fact is that he has answered positively, but, negatively.
Divination for water: that consists of interpreting the waves that arise in a water bowl placed in a flat place. If they go in direction of the fortune teller it is a splendor, if not, perniciously.
Divination for the grains of millet. They use it to know if it is auspicioso to go out of fighter or to raise a house.
Other divination methods are realized by poles of bamboo, by tops of bamboo or by a knife.

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