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Other Indo-Aryan peoples. The Kho (/ koʊ /, [3] Khowar: کھو) or Chitrali people, [4] are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group [5] native to the Chitral District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan and the Gupis-Yasin and Ghizer districts of Gilgit-Baltistan. [6] They speak an Indo-Aryan language called Khowar.
(2004) [12] stated that "the western Eurasian presence in the Kalash population reaches a frequency of 100%" with the most prevalent mtDNA Haplogroups being U4 (34%), R0 (23%), U2e (16%), and J2 (9%). The study asserted that no East or South Asian lineages were detected and that the Kalash population is composed of maternal western Eurasian ...
Volga Tatars are the second-largest ethnic group in Russia after ethnic Russians. Most of them live in the republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. Their native language is Tatar, a language of the Turkic language family. The predominant religion is Sunni Islam, followed by Orthodox Christianity.
The Sintashta culture[a] is a Middle Bronze Age archaeological culture of the Southern Urals, [1] dated to the period c. 2200–1900 BCE. [2][3] It is the first phase of the Sintashta–Petrovka complex, [4] c. 2200 –1750 BCE. The culture is named after the Sintashta archaeological site, in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, and spreads through ...
Buryats traditionally practised shamanism, also called Tengrism, with a focus on worship of nature. A core concept of Buryat shamanism is the "triple division" of the physical and spiritual world. [8][7] There are three divisions within the spirit world: the tengeri, the bōxoldoy, and lower spirits. [7]
Human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups in Morocco and the world. [1] Moroccan genetics encompasses the genetic history of the people of Morocco, and the genetic influence of this ancestry on world populations. It has been heavily influenced by geography. In prehistoric times, the Sahara desert to the south and the Mediterranean Sea to the north ...
Eurasian Singaporeans is a term that refers to Singaporeans of mixed European – Asian descent. The term, which includes – but is not limited to – the creole and indigenous Kristang people, who form a distinct sub-group within the Eurasian community with their own separate language, culture and identity. The Asian ancestry of Eurasians ...
In their rituals, music, dance, special garments and offerings are part of the performance that surround the spirit journey. [44] Shamanism is a part of Vietnamese folk religion, three branches of shamanism are known today as Đạo Mẫu, Thánh Trần worship and Nội Đạo Tràng (of which the most famous is Đạo Mẫu).