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What religion do the Mongols believe in?

The Mongols believe in Shamanism. The Mongols have practiced shamanism for a long period of their history. Before the unification of Mongolia by Genghis Khan, shamanism was dominant, and when the Mongol tribes were unified in the early 13th century, and for a period thereafter, shamanism was still the dominant religion.



The Mongols were the first to believe in shamanism, which worships the gods, and the first to believe in Buddhism.

History

Mongolian Empire was founded at the beginning of the various rituals held in the Shangdu were hosted by shamans. At that time, shamanism influenced all aspects of the spiritual and cultural life of the Mongols. The Mongols lived scattered and seldom concentrated their activities, but whenever the shamans jumped to the gods, people concentrated together. The toasts and poems in Mongolian folklore are closely related to shamanism, and what the sorcerer said when he summoned the god is a kind of poem, a poem summoning the god and glorifying the god, which belongs to shamanistic literature.