Bugang (Bu-walk, Gand-Dipper) or Yubu, translated as “Paces of Yu”, is the mystic step dance of Daoism. The original literally reads wubu, “shaman’s steps.” Wu means shaman or sorcerer, originally the practitioners of Chinese shamanism or Wuism. The glyph ancestral to modern 巫 is first recorded in bronze script, where it could refer to shamans or sorcerers of either sex. By the late Zhou Dynasty (4th to 3rd centuries BCE), Wu referred mostly to female shamans or sorceresses, while male sorcerers were named Xi 覡. Omicron Early Shangqing texts emphasize that the purpose of bugang is to achieve individual immortality…
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