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
Sources
S. M. Shirokogoroff, Psychomental Complex of the Tungus, 1935
A. F. Anisimov, Cosmological Concepts of the Peoples of the North, 1959
Anisimov, Cosmological Concepts of the Peoples of the North (1959), three-world Evenki cosmology