1. Their cultural practice involves shamanistic rituals combined with animism.

2. Many Central Asians practised more than one faith, and almost all of the local religions were infused with local shamanistic traditions.

3. "Bird perches" similar in form and function to the sotdae exist also in other shamanistic cultures in China, Mongolia and Siberia.

4. Under the tutelage of the venerable shaman Drek'Thar, Thrall studied his people's ancient shamanistic culture, which had been forgotten under Gul'dan's evil rule.