Great Mythologies of the World
Season 1
Ep 40. Spirits and Syncretism in Korean Myth
- TV-PG
- August 21, 2015
- 32 min
Early Koreans interacted with the spirit world through spirit mediums, primarily women, who perform shamanic rituals and preserve cultural knowledge even up to the modern day. These traditions incorporate religious, mythological, and scholarly borrowings from Japan and China into a distinctively Korean syncretic blend.