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“earth god”, “prosperity god”, “war god” etc. They then made their
representative figures and worshipped them. The only difference in
Shamanism is that they did not make carved idols of their imaginary

deities. Instead, the shaman turned to the sky, earth, sea, lake or forest
and worshipped them. In the end, all these teachings amount to ascrib-
ing partners to Allah and are a terrible perversion.
Despite the fact that superstitious Shamanism was a myth that
contradicted reason and logic, it nevertheless was passed down from
generation to generation, each generation adopting it as a tradition of
their forefathers. Many tribes and nations ignorantly continued to wor-
ship and make sacrifices to mountains, rocks or rivers even though
they could clearly see that these objects have neither reason nor will.
The dialogue between the Prophet Abraham (pbuh) and his people is
revealed as follows in the Qur’an:
Recite to them the story of Abraham when he said to his father and
his people, “What do you worship?” They said, “We worship idols
and will continue to cling to them.” He said, “Do they hear you
when you call or do they help you or do you harm?” They said, “No,
but this is what we found our fathers doing.” (Surat ash-Shu‘ara’:
69-74)

IRRATIONAL BELIEFS IN SHAMANISM
The myth of supposedly divine objects in nature is a central belief

of Shamanism and has led them to develop strange rituals:
"The Shors believe in the existence of mountain spirits (tag-azi) and water
spirits (shug-azi). Every clan had its own clan mountain and its mountain
spirit, who protected the members of the clan. Every three years sacrificial
ceremonies were held on that mountain. To express their respect, every Shor
threw a libation to the spirit owner of the mountain or river, when he or she
was near the mountain or river... The spirit owner of the waters was imag-

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)