Chosen by the Spirits [Buryat], Appendices

Chosen by the Spirits [Buryat], Appendices

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pp. 203-209 – appendix 1. "Setting up a Ritual Space".

p. 206 orientation to altar

"The shaman’s seat is usually located at the northern side of the circle by the altar, positioned in such a way that your [the officiant’s] back will not be turned to the ongons on the altar". {In the Eastern Orthodox mass, the officiant-priest’s back is likewise not turned to the altar; but, however, the officiant-priest’s back is indeed turned to the altar through the Roman Catholic mass.}

"At each of the four directions are four ward ongons called togoljin." {cf. the Coptic archangels}

p. 208 ritual of the 4 Directions : to ruler of 4 groups of tenger, for the 4 color-directions {N.B. : the #s & colors of the directions are Daoist in origin}

p.	*color*	*direct.*	*# of tenger*	*ruler of tenger*
208	red	south	99	Usan H^an the water-god
	white	west	55	"Eagle, the first shaman"
	black	north	77	Tatai Tenger the lightning-god
	blue	east	44	13 Asarangi Tenger

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pp. 210-232 – app. 2. "The Shamanic Pantheon".

pp. 211-212 primordial events

p. 211

"in the galab time, ... when human were first placed on earth, ... the sky spirits met in the Pleiades in order to determine what to do about the future of mankind ... . They decided to send Eagle down to earth to become the first shaman, but when he arrived he ... found a Buryat girl sleeping under a tree. He mated with her and she became pregnant. ... their child grew up unusually quickly and became the self-taught shaman Mergen Hara, the first black shaman ... . He was so powerful that he could bring the dead back to life. The sky spirits punished him because his powers were too great and he abused them." {Asklepios "could raise the dead" (GM 50.e) : "both he and his patient were killed by Zeus’s thunderbolt." (GM 50.f)}

p. 212

"When the sky spirits sent Abai Geser to earth, at the time of his initiation he summoned thirty-three sons of the sky spirits {= the deva-s, said to be 33 in the R.c-Veda} ... to aid him in cleansing the earth of the contamination that threatened living things. When his work was done, he returned to the sky."

p. 212 groupings of deities established by H^an S^argai Noyon, brother of Esege Malaan Tenger

*# of deities in group*	*of __*
88	the Zaarin clan
99	the S^os^oolog clan
33	shamans who "beat their drums"
73	shaman-smiths who "pounded their metals"

pp. 212-214 immediately subsequent legendary events

p. 212	"Soon afterward, brother Ulaan Zalaa (he of the red shaman badge) also came down to earth, to become the protector spirit of young boys. {is this the boy-savior who came to Yuh.anan the Baptist, according to the Manda<?} Elbite Hara ... came to earth to see what was happening. He was jealous of ... Shargai Noyon ... . He shot a magic arrow that killed him ... . {cf. the the arrow of Hotherus that killed Balderus, according to Saxo Grammaticus.} When the western sky spirits discovered this, they sent
p. 213	down Shargai Noyon’s brother, who ... restored him to life. {cf. Hermo`d, sent into the netherworld to his brother Baldr, according to the Edda.} Afterward, Shargai Noyon had certain adventures with Elbite Hara that converted him into a patron of shamanism, at which time he settled in the Sayan Mountains with a human wife and took the name Buhe Noyon Baabai. ... As a result of these events, Shargai Noyon Baabai, Ulaan Zalaa, and Buhe Noyon Baabai ... have selected ... to join them ... now ninety-nine great shaman spirits living in those mountains."
p. 214	"the shaman Ergil Buga, known as the "crzy one of Tunkhen" (Tunkhenei Galzuu) or Holongoto Ubgen (Sable Man) ... established the tradition of the nine degrees of shamanism (connected with the mystical nine branches of the World Tree) and in his time was responsible for the crowning of ninety-nine shamans and ninety-nine shamanesses with the orgoi crown of the advanced shaman; after their death, all of their spirits joined him in the Sayan Mountains as patrons and protectors of all shamans. His ongon is made of skunk skin ... . It is said that he was the son of a virgin birth : his mother ate a hailstone that contained the semen of one of the sky spirits, which resulted in his conception." (citing JSS, pp. 105-6)

JSS = Jeremiah Curtin : A Journey in Southern Siberia. Boston, 1909.

pp. 217-218 the 9 "Sons of the Sky" [t.=tenger; b.-burhan]

p.	#	*god*	*chief of __*	*father of __*
217	1^st	Ubgen Yuruul	"mate of Ekhe Ekhe Burhan"	2^nd, 3^rd, & 4^th
	2^nd	Esege Malaan		(originator of humans)
	3^rd	H^an Sogto	77 northern t.	2 storm gods : Huherdei Mergen & Hultei Hatan
218	4^th	S^argai Noyon		(on mountains)
	5^th	Aligan Sagaan	99 southern t.
	6^th	Han Hormasta	55 western t.
	7^th	Golto Sagaan	1000 benevolent b.
	8^th	Buuluur Sagaan
	9^th	Atai Ulaan	44 eastern t.

pp. 218-225 the 55 tenger of the western skies (translated from :- B. D. Bazarov : Tainstva y praktika shamanizma. Ulan-Ude : Buryaad Unen, 2000. kniga 2, pp. 30-34, 53-66) [P. = Pauran.ik; V. = Vaidik]

p.	#	*god*	*patron of __*	*{comparative}*
218	1^st	Han Hormasta		*Ahura-Mazda (< ASURa-MASDHA)**
	2^nd	Udaa Munhe	waters
	3^rd	Segeen Sebdeg	"blue ice (winter)"
219	4^th	Buudal Uhan Huhe	water-springs
	5^th	Homon Huhe (Hotoi Sagaan)
	6^th	Ugaal Sagaan	rainbow	>UKAL
	7^th	Huhe Manhan	livestock
	8^th	S^ara Hasar	S^aryaat, S^aranut, & Hangilov clans
	9^th	Buuluur Sagaan	elders	[Irish god] BaLoR
220	10^th	Dabaan Joloo	blacksmiths
	11^th	Odon Sagaan	sahius
	12^th	H^an Buudal	"ninety crucibles ... in the northwestern direction"	*"Yellow Emperor Method for the Nine Crucibles" (24D)*
	13^th	Oyor Sagaan	ancestry
	14^th	Uurag Sagaan	swans (p. 221)	Brahma ?
221	15^th	Bisalgan Sagaan (Pison Sagaan)	Bargut tribe	PIS^O^N river
	16^th	Zada Sagaan Buudal	meteorites
	17^th	Budarguu Sagaan	snow; Bulagat tribe
	18^th	Is^h^ii Bayan	abundance
	19^th	Hurei Bayan	descendants	[P.] SURInama
	20^th	Uhaa Solbon	planet Venus	cf. [Skt.] /US.As/ ‘dawn’
	21^st	Huhei Noyon	Daibagarov
222	22^nd	Sahilgaan Sagaan	lightning; light in southwest
	23^rd	Hute Buumal	dairy products
	24^th	Buumal Sagaan	meteors
	25^th	Mender Zalaa	hail	[P.] MaNDHatR.
	26^th	Hundari Sagaan	marriages	[P.] SUNDARI ‘beautiful’ (a goddess)
	27^th	Gutaar Bayan	destiny	[P.] HUTA havya-vaha
	28^th	H^an Sagaan	nomads & travelers
	29^th	Noyon Sagaan	royalty
223	30^th	Hun Sagaan	shadows; "Eagle Feather"
	31^st	Gal Ulaan	craftsmen	[P.] HALahala fire
	32^nd	Manha Malaan	hermits
	33^rd	Oir Munhe	ripening of fruit
	34^th	Zayaan Buudal	"success" : "fights against evil spirits"	[<ibri^] ZAYiN ‘weapon’
	35^th	Altan	gold	Hiran.ya-garbha ?
	36^th	Huhe Zalaa	vegetation
224	37^th	Hajir Sagaan	bone-setters (cheiropractors)
	38^th	? [omitted]
	39^th	Dun Sagaan	butter
	40^th – 43^rd	Hultei Halhin	the 4 west winds
	44^th – 47^th	Durben Emeers^e	the 4 west breezes
	48^th	Oyodol Sagaan	mirrors	*EIDOLon is reflected by mirror (acc. to Demokritos -- ThLThV)*
	49^th	Somol Huhe	volcanoes
	50^th	Ohiruu Sagaan	costumes
	51^st	Amitai Sagaan	assembly	<AM<aD
	52^nd	Yas^il Sagaan	officials (p. 225)
	53^rd	? [omitted]
225	54^th	Uran Sagaan	actors, artists	[V.] URAN.a
	55^th	Urhe Uuden	gate

24D = "The Twenty-four Dioceses in the legend of Zhang Daoling" http://www.ecai.org/24Dioceses/24Dioceses_3.html

ThLThV = http://people.brandeis.edu/~sekuler/SensoryProcessesMaterial/Alhazen.html

etymologies must take into account phonetic changes :

*Buryat __*	*derived from earlier __*
/S^/	/S`/
/S/	/S^/
/H/	/S/

pp. 225-227 the 44 tenger of the eastern skies

p.	#	*god*	*controller of __*
225	1^st	Atai Ulaan	punishments
	2^nd	H^an Boomo	epidemic diseases
	3^rd – 11^th	13 Yuhen S^uhan	blood
225-6	12^th – 24^th	9 Asarangi Arban Gurban	medics
226	25^th	Godli Ulaan	"souls of domestic animals."
	26^th	Zulhe Ulaan	war
	27^th	Hara Maxa-Gal	"Black Flesh"
	28^th-33^rd	Bolinguud	bards
	34^th	Uhin Hara	ailments of women
	35^th	Haraan Buudal	clairvoyance & clairaudience
	36^th	Helin Hara	"power over the energetic field of the human spiritual body."
	37^th	Gug Hara	uda
	38^th	Tad Hara	reindeer
	39^th – 41^st	3 Gurban Manan	fogs, smoke, mist
227	42^nd – 44^th	3 Gurban Boroon Buudal	rainstorms

pp. 227-228 other important tenger

p.	*deities*	*attribute*
227	Bayan Hangai	"White Deer" {albino?}
	Dayan Deerh	cave
	Doloon Ubged	"Seven Old Men, the spirits of the seven stars of the Big Dipper."
228	Daic^in	soldiers
	Dulen	aurora borealis
	Eriin & Hani	"patrons of male and female romantic love and sexual attraction. ... honor them by making ... a picture or sculpture of a man and woman."
	Gujer	insults, lies, slander
	Huherdei Mergen	lightning
	Tatai	"stopping storms"

pp. 228-229 major goddesses

p.	*goddess*	*function*
228	Eh^e Eh^e Burhan	"she created the earth by having a duck bring mud from the depths of the ocean and placing it on the back of a turtle." {the turtle underlying the earth is likewise a common North American Indian belief.}
229	Golomt Eej	hearth
	Manzan Gurme Toodei	*"ancestress of the fifty-five western tenger."*
	Mayas Hara Toodei	*"ancestress of the forty-four eastern tenger."*

families of deities

p.	*deity*	*relationship*
218	Aligan Sagaan	father of : Han Hormasta; Golto Sagaan; Buluur Sagaan
	Han Hormasta	husband of : Gere Sesen Ibii "wise in her house"
	" "	father of : Zasa Mergen Baatar; Buh^e Beligte (Buh^e Tugelder); Habata Gerel
	Segeen Sebdeg	husband of : Ugan Sesen "first wisdom"
	" "	father of : Sesegen Nogoon (goddess of spring season)
219	" "	father of : son having "a fiery eye on the top of his head and a single tooth." {cf. the eye & the tooth acquired by Perseus}
	Sesegen Nogoon	wife of : Zasa Mergen Baatar
220	Dabaan Joloo	father of : Bojintoi
221	Budarguu Sagaan	father of : Uhaa Solbon; Buh^a Noyon Baabai; Sahyaadai Noyon
222	Hute Buumal	son of : Esege Malaan Tenger
229	Alma Mergen Hatan	daughter of : Uha Loson
	" " "	wife of : Buh^e Beligte

pp. 229-230 H^an-s; Zayaan-s; Ezen

p.	*deities*	*trait*
229	Alma Mergen Hatan	warrioress
	Erleg H^an	"judge of human souls. He determines where and when human souls reincarnate."
230	Gerel Noyon & Tuyen Hatan	"spirits of bright sparkling water."
	Guruus^e Noyon & Guruus^e Hatan	"fishing with tackle."
	Sahiaadai Noyon & Sahal Hatan	"The spirits of the kindling of fire, being patrons of the flint and steel used to create fire".
	Uha Loson H^an & Uhan Daban Hatan	*"The chief of the lus* spirits (... spirits of the waters) and his wife."**
	Uir Sagaan Noyon & Yogotor Sagaan Hatan	"patron spirits of farmers."
	Urges^e Zayaan	"controls trickery and gossip."

pp. 230-232 various ongon-s

p.	*ongon*	*repraesentation of __*
230	Abgaldai	bear-ancestor
231	Adaguus^a	humor, comedians
	Altatan	protectress of young animals
	Anda Bars	friend-tigre
	Baljid	Burtu’s daughter "to protect infants from sudden crib death."
	Gohos^o	fishermen
	Zar Zargaac^	legless man : animal-form is porcupine; patron of lawyers & judges
232	Zol Zayaac^	"depicted as a man and woman standing side by side, representing the spirits Zayaas^a Baabai (father of fate) and Zarlig Toodei (mother of justice)."

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pp. 233-236 – app. 3. "The 9 Degrees of Buryat Shamanic Initiation [Consecration]".

(translated from Bazarov, pp. 31-5)

p.	#	*degree*	*insignia of office*	*sacerdotal duties*	*duration*
233	1^st	Manjilaitai (newly initiated)	birch staff	making caerimonial fire	3 y.
233-4	2^nd	Noitolhon (baptized)	(p. 234) gnarled staff	sheep-sacrifice	3 y.
234	3^rd	Jodooto (fir-tree)	pipe & whip	perform marriages	1 y.
	4^th	S^ereete (with altar)	tins^a (cymbals); zele (noose)	"capture spirits"	3 y.
	5^th	Hesete (with drums)	3 drums, of : oxhide, deerhide, goathide	*"merging with the ongon* spirits"**	1 y.
234-5	6^th	Horiboto (with a rod-staff)	metal rod topped with horse-head	" " "	3 y.
235	7^th	Orgoito (with costume)	metallic crown	boiling with heated stone	3 y.
	8^th	Orgoito Buheli (with costume completed)	jingle cones & variegated ribbons	controlling wind, rain, and storms	1 y.
	9^th	Tabilgatai Zaarin (with mandate of heaven)	hat adorned with sun-and-moon	transport self anywhither	--

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by same authoress : translation of "Epic of King Geser of gLing" http://buryatmongol.org/

Sarangerel : Chosen by the Spirits. Destiny Books, Rochester (VT), 2001. [copyright "by Julie Ann Stewart" (publication information page) – "shamaness" (p. x); Born "in the United States, she ... returned to her ancestral homeland in the Tunken region of ... Buryat" (rear cover).]

biography -- http://buryatmongol.org/about/