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KHADAG - SHAMANIC AND BUDDHIST OFFERING SCARVES
Khadags are strips of cloth, used to tie onto things or wrap things.
Their five colours represent the five elements - Yellow = Earth; Green = Air; White = Space; Red = Fire, and Blue = Water - although different traditions associate differernt aspects and elements to these colours, so the colour meaning does vary.
There are also black khadags, used in powerful, wrathful healing work, and white khadags, which are most often used in Tibetan Buddhism, where they are called khata
Khadags are made of a silky material - old ones generally of pure silk - and they are very often decorated with ausptious symbols.
In Mongolia blue is the commonest colour, especially for use in shamanimsm, and shamans and the general public use tie them onto sacred places in nature, ritual objects and shaman's costumes
BLUE KHADAG (Item No. Khadag 01)
Price including postage: £9 (Worldwide)
Origin: Mongolia
Age: New
Length: 1300mm approx
Traditional Mongolian khadag or hadag sky blue offering scarf. These Blue ones are the most commonly seen sort of khadag because of the shamanic relationship with the sky spirits.
BLACK KHADAG (Item No. Khadag 02)
Price including postage: £12 (Worldwide)
Origin: Mongolia
Age: New
Length: 1300mm approx
When doing 'heavy shamanic healing' there is a tradition to tie black (buguutey) khadags onto ritual objects, such as whips and drums and other objects, used in the healing work. This is a sign of deeply wrathful - aggressive - healing, done without mercy, the blackness symbolises the driving away of the spirits of illness, with no quarter given.
Black khadags are very hard to get, and only used in extream cases.
FIVE COLOUR KHADAG SET (Item No. Khadag 03)
including postage: £30 (Worldwide)
Origin: Mongolia
Age: New
Length: 1300mm approx
Traditional Mongolian khadag or hadag offering scarf set.