A study of the cycle of childhood rites in traditional Buryat culture reveals surviving archaic traces of maternal worship. An analysis of folklore and ethnographic sources revealed the following stages included in childhood rites: “Laying in the Cradle”, “Name-giving”, “Cutting the Prenatal Hair”, “Eating Sacred Food Together”, and “Invoking Tribal Happiness”. They represent a well-developed...
The article examines the semantics and functions of the deities known in the Buryat shaman pantheon of the Baikal region as “Saitani Burhad” (Saitin gods). The chronological framework of the study covers the period from the last quarter of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. The research is based on historical, ethnographic, ethnolinguistic, folkloristic, mythological and...