Goals. The article aims to analyze the functioning of сүнс concept in the works of twenty-first century Mongolian authors. In recent times, modern Mongolian writers and poets have frequently incorporated images of various demonological figures into their texts. In our view, this stems from a desire to engage the reader by offering something mysterious, inexplicable, or supernatural....
The article analyzes the shamanic ritual of requesting a child’s soul from the deity Aiyysyt in the traditional culture of the northern Yakuts. The relevance of the study is conditioned by the need to examine the regional specificity of ritual practice, which has preserved unique forms of existence due to the geographical isolation of the northern uluses, as well as by the importance of...