ABSTRACT
Korea is not as rich in cults as some of the countries of the world, but it has had a goodly share of them and slight contacts with a number outside of Korea. Without doubt a part of the Shamanism of Korea either came originally from China and Taoism, or was influenced by it. Possibly the Japanese fulfilled in part that old prophecy, for, when they took over the country in 1910, their dynasty name for the period was, in Korean, “ Great Chung,” “Taichung.” The Shinto cult has been compared to the spirit worship of Korea which we shall discuss in another lecture a little later, but, as one examines them a little closely one finds scarcely a point of contact between them. Somehow they felt, as patriotic Koreans, that Korea should have at least one religion of its own.
