Shamanic Tales of Siberia

    During the dark time of cultural revolution in soviet Russia the shamanistic cultures were nearly being viped out. However, cultural ethnographic efforts in the first three decades of the 20th. century provides us with a rich picture of the once-living shamanic culture in siberia. G.V. Ksenofontov collected many tellings and myths from burjatic, tungusic and jakutic shamans and published them in Moskva in the year 1930. My own resource is a german translation. The stories are taken from this book and translated into english by myself. Here I present a selection from these collected tales. They will provide the interested practitioner with a rich picture of siberian shamanism.

The renewal of shamanic graves The grave of the shaman Temir-Tscharaptschylaach. Informations on the Rite of Raising the Bones. The shaman as spirit of protection Üölän-Kunnjaas. Yrya-Dujaak and Kyrbyjdaan. Batyjalaach, Küstäch and the pocks. The birth of a shaman The shaman Abaasy-Ojun Dschaanaj-Bytschykyj and Jeksökülääch-Örgön Living shamans (around 1925) The descriptions of Alexej Gavriil The shaman Michail Savvitsch Nikitin The sufferings of the shaman S. Sateejev on the shamanic dismemberment The tiermutter and the dismemberment Nikifor Danilov on dismemberment On the dissection and the toll of blood Spiridon Samsonov on the dissection The tiermutter and the bull The tiermutter and the dismemberment The elk as tiermutter The self-shooting trap Ytschim's fight with Bölüökä-Uola
Shaman of the Jakuts calls his allies, 1910, © American Museum of Natural History
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