Adoration of the spirits of localities

Posted: October 15th, 2009 under Central Asia, Silk Road.
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All the everyday life of these peoples ritualizirovanna, there is a wide variety of taboos. Literally every domestic action must be realized in the sense not to offend the fire, water, or some powerful spirit, guardian of the area and not lose a fortune. There are so many different rules that it is impossible to perform them on the machine, the local people themselves must always be attentive to their actions. It is often seen as some type of sweeping economic pursuits of the yurt, pouring tea, or whipping butter turns into a ritual with many parts, and has shamanic ritual with external simplicity of action, they are not “esoteric” is simply saturated with knowledge and concentrated on the fact being done.

Rites performed in honor of the spirits of mountains and hunting and fishing grounds include offerings to these owners. They may differ in nature. Eastern Tuva on the way to hunt for passes spray drops of tea or milk on the four corners of the earth, accompanying these acts singing certain songs, which are known to every hunter. In the case of a successful hunt, they make offerings to the fire, threw pieces of meat produced and spraying the fire drops of tea.

Widely distributed throughout Central Asia, the ritual of building a pyramid of stones ovaa in habitat particularly powerful spirits. At the top of the pyramid, the tour is set pole, which as an offering to hang colored ribbons. Such structures can be seen throughout Tuva and Khakassia passes, mountain tops and in a particularly beautiful places, for example, with unusual trees or springs. Everyone passing by to add his stone pyramid and hang the ribbon on a pole, often divorced from their own clothes, as well as perform strike and make offerings: food, tobacco, horse hair from the mane of a horse or figures carved from wood and depicting animals, for their reproduction or for a successful hunt for them.

In the future, the spread of Buddhism, this custom in Tibet and Mongolia, was transformed into the construction of stupas and putting up multi-colored flags lungta.

In these areas the most respected places are the mountains with the flat treeless peaks, which have a special name taiga and are considered sacred, especially there are many similar facilities, and it was there conducting the ritual shamans. Ordinary people in these places try not to walk only in cases of great public exclamations, and the women there do try not to let.

Another object of worship is a special shaman’s tree, which is a pine or larch, which has several stems growing from one root and fantastically strong izognuty.Osobo are trees, where the larch and spruce grow from the same root. These trees are the property as in individual families, genera, and in some shamans who go there kamlat “for themselves. Each shaman has such a tree, where he conducts an annual ritual. If during the life of the shaman is a tree dies, it is believed that he had lost his shamanistic gift. By branches such trees tied ribbons to fumigate artyshem , Local mozhevelnikom, analog Tibetan Sanga and sprinkles it with milk and Arak.

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