Sky-Universe

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