Father Sky
Buryat · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Spirit-class sky-god (classed as deity). Native attested form Esege Malaan ('Bald/Wide Father'); the gloss 'bald, broad' is sometimes attached to malaan. Distinct from the steppe-Mongol Tengri pantheon already in the registry: this is the Mongolic Buryat shamanic sky-father.
Parentage
- parent: Grandmother of the Sky
Domains
- sky
- creation
- fate decree
Powers
- settles the fate of mortals from the sky
- shapes earth, sun and stars into being
Epithets
- Esege Malan Father Bald-Heaven; the supreme sky-god, source of life and lightBuryat (Mongol) shamanic tradition; Jeremiah Curtin (secondary)
- Esege Malaan Father Bald/Clear SkyBuryat Tengri tradition; Esege Malan as creator sky-god of the western horizon (secondary)
Sources
- Esege Malan is the Buryat sky-father, creator of living things, and head of the 55 western (white) tengri.: Uno Holmberg (Harva), Finno-Ugric and Siberian Mythology, 1927 (secondary); cyberleninka.ru, 'Buryat Hesariad: Tengrist mythology and the epic interpretation' (secondary)
- In the divine genealogy the western deities descend in order Manzan Gurme, Esege Malan Tengri, Khan Khormusta Tengri.: cyberleninka.ru, Buryat Hesariad article, descending genealogy of western tengri (secondary)