Sky-Universe
Evenki · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Spirit-class supreme/diffuse sky-being (classed as deity). Buga is impersonal 'sky/universe' in everyday speech but personified as the grandmother Enekan Buga in cult; sex given as female reflecting the Enekan ('grandmother') aspect. Ekseri/Eksheri is a regional name for the same upper-world power.
Domains
- sky
- universe totality
- fertility of game
Powers
- renews nature and the reproduction of game and reindeer
- remains the one power no shaman can master
Epithets
- Buga The universe and the sky as the supreme being; the living cosmos itselfA. F. Anisimov; S. Shirokogoroff, on Tungus cosmology (secondary)
Sources
- Buga is the Evenki word for sky/universe/world and names the supreme, eternal being; in the personified form Enekan Buga she is the Mistress of the Universe who dispenses life-force (musun).: S. M. Shirokogoroff, Psychomental Complex of the Tungus, 1935 (secondary); A. F. Anisimov, Cosmological Concepts of the Peoples of the North, 1959 (secondary)
- The Evenki cosmos is tripartite: Upper World (Ugu Buga), Middle World (Dulin Buga), Lower World (Hergu Buga).: Anisimov, Cosmological Concepts of the Peoples of the North (1959), three-world Evenki cosmology (secondary)