Saitin Gods in Buryat Shamanism: Semantics of Images and Functions
Bulletin of the Irkutsk State University Geoarchaeology Ethnology and Anthropology Series 2023 N. B. Dashieva
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...