Pásztor Emília (szerk.): Sámánizmus és természethit régen és ma - Bajai dolgozatok 23. (Baja, 2019)

Andrzej Rozwadowski: Varázslyukak: Átjárók a szellemek világába a szibériai sámánizmusban

Sacred holes: Portals to the world of spirits in Siberian shamanism

of communities with mountain spirits were basically never-ending. Game animals, for example, were considered to be herds belonging to the mountain-masters and hunting success depended on their favours (Kyzlasov 1982: 89: Potapov 2001: 124-155). The spirits of the mountains were also feared because they could kidnap humans and bring them to their kingdoms. There is a story of a Shor hunter belonging to the Taiash clan (in the upper basin of the Abakan River), who, having reached a mountain, was ordered by the mountain-master to approach it. Another hunter described how the spirit-master stretched out its hand through an opening in the rock and asked the hunter to give back his glove or hat. In both cases, the hunters were aware that getting close to the surface of the rock, or by giving away their personal possessions to a mountain-master condemned them to death - their souls would be taken by the spirit-owner to the realm inside the mountain (Dyrenkova 2012,148).

Fig.12. Altaic shamanic drum (diameter of ca. 50 cm). Collection of the A. V. Anokhin National Museum in Gorno-Altaisk. Photo A. Rozwadowski.

12 kép. Altáji sémán dob (átmérője kb. 50 cm).