Sagaj
The Turkic Sagaj (Sagaier; . Chakass Сағай , ISO transliteration Sagaj ) are part of the day as Khakassians population referred to in Khakassia (Southern Siberia ). Today you belong to the Turkic people .
religion
The so-called “classical shamanism” was the ethnic religion of the Sagaier. The ethnologist Klaus E. Müller speaks of "complex shamanism" and means those forms that have developed a complex ritual culture through contact with other religions and neighboring agricultural societies. The central prop for the Sagaiians is the shaman's tree. Often there are shaman fights that determine the hierarchy of the shamans.
Christianization only took place superficially among many remote peoples of Siberia, so that syncretistic mixed religions are common today.
See also
literature
- Yevgeny Zhukov and others: Sovetskaya istoritscheskaja enziklopedija: Tom 12 . Sowetskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1969, col. 454. (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus E. Müller: Shamanism. Healers, spirits, rituals. 4th edition, CH Beck, Munich 2010 (original edition 1997), ISBN 978-3-406-41872-3 . Pp. 30-33, 41.
- ↑ The small peoples of the far north and far east of Russia. Society for Threatened Peoples - South Tyrol, Bozen 1998.