Shaman does not choose his Path. This Path chooses it, and since then it becomes the Guide between two worlds. She can talk with spirits, knows secrets that an ordinary person doesn't know about. In the mountains and steppes of Altay they believe in the Sacred White Mother Ak-Ene, who gave birth to Ulgen, the creator of all things, and the shamans worship these gods, and the spirits ask for help when they are beaten into their magic tambourine.