Shaman’s drum is an attribute of the strong shamans. Shamans are known, do not have tambourines and life kamlayuschie with jew’s harp (komus) or with a wooden baton. The material for the production of diamonds is usually a larch, used to make the rim. On the rim with one hand stretched skin deer or a deer. Inside the rim and attached wooden carved handle and crossbar on which hung the iron pendants and belt.
For the shaman drum is a winged horse on which he performs his travels, which he fed with milk and Arak. Accelerating battle rattle a tambourine shaman adjusts the horse, causing it to rise higher and higher, slowing down the fight, he comes back. In any case, the shaman travels to the upper or lower worlds, his journey is connected with the feeling of flight and going through several “layers” of reality. About some of the shamans say that they have for their lives drove six horses, ie replaced six tambourines.
When the shaman makes a new drum, he holds a special ceremony, called the revival of horse-drum. Vargan shamans called the deer or a small horse, it can not fly to the upper world, but only among the mountains of the world average. Shaman’s drum is the prototype for the Buddhist drum. Hence come the submission of the magic abilities Bon lamas fly riding on drums.
In order to urge on a horse shaman uses the tongue, is often considered that a good beater is more important than a good drum. Klopačka made of wood, it is covered by the skin of a mountain goat, deer or bear, and append it to the brass ring, that ring when struck in the drum.
With beater linked very common divination, which makes the shaman during the ritual, and which does not manage, as a rule, no ritual. Beater beat the tambourine and cry to the spirits, asking them a question in a moment she comes out of the beater hands of the shaman and falls to the hem of a handkerchief or a man for whom many predict. For drop clappers ring up – the positive response to the spirits, rings down – negative. Interestingly, this response is not final, and the unfavorable situation can be changed. To do this, make offerings and look – I took their spirits, and so continued until a positive response.
