Rediscovered Kumandy Shamanic Texts in Vilmos Diószegi’s Manuscript Legacy
This article is based on the materials collected by the ethnologists Vilmos Diószegi (of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Feofan A. Satlaev (of the Soviet Academy of Sciences) from the Siberian Turkic Kumandy on a joint field trip in August, 1964. Diószegi was the first Hungarian ethnologist t...
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Molnar & Kelemen Oriental Publ.
2018
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Shaman
Year: 2018, Volume: 26, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 107-132 |
| Summary: | This article is based on the materials collected by the ethnologists Vilmos Diószegi (of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Feofan A. Satlaev (of the Soviet Academy of Sciences) from the Siberian Turkic Kumandy on a joint field trip in August, 1964. Diószegi was the first Hungarian ethnologist to have undertaken fieldwork in Siberia during Soviet times. Diószegi had previously conducted fieldwork in Siberia among Western Buryat, Khakas, Tuva and Tofa in 1957–8, before his final fieldwork in the Altay Republic among the Altay-kizhi and Telengit and Kumandy in the Altaiskii krai. Satlaev, himself a Kumandy, took Diószegi to his home area along the Biia river, where they collected texts from three shamans. During the two-week field trip they collected folklore texts mainly on shamanism and native religion. Later Satlaev typed up the Kumandy texts and sent them to Diószegi. Diószegi died in 1972 and the material remained unpublished, even though there is valuable information on Kumandy shamanic traditions, on how the shaman’s soul traveled to the Lower World to find ürkken jula (runaway soul), to be found among these items. Data are also provided about various spirits, such as šalıg (protector), elči (messenger), ee /ē/ (master spirit), aza (demon), and as well as tayılga (sacrifice) and the kočo ritual. The present article is a short introduction to this valuable material, which is now kept in the archives of the Institute of Ethnology, The Research Center for the Humanities (Hungarian Academy of Sciences). |
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| ISSN: | 1216-7827 |
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