SibScriptDecember 24, 2024Alexandr L. Zaika, Ivan V. Siryukin
The rock art of the Middle Yenisei often depicts shamans with various shamanic attributes. The local shamanism has its roots in the Bronze Age. It influenced the plots and patterns of the Middle Yenisei rock art. The earliest images of shaman figures with shamanic attributes date back to the Tesin period. Shamanic images also appear in the art of the Tashtyk culture. However, it is the shamanic...
This article is part of a study of the Buddhist text in modern Russian literature. It focuses on Elena A. Schwartz, who developed some Buddhist ideas, motives, and images in her poetry and prose. Her artistic world is a viable ecumenical utopia that exists due to the mysticism of personages and environment. This chronotope gets narrower and narrower in a territorial and cultural sense, thus...
The article describes the social role of shamanism in Yakutia in the 1920s. The newspaper of Autonomous Yakutia served as the main source. The research is the first-of-its-kind attempt to study Yakut shamanism as a socio-cultural phenomenon based on a comprehensive analysis of local mass media. The newspaper described the shamanic practices, people’s attitude, and anti-shamanism measures. The...