Lord of the Lower World
Evenki · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Spirit-class lower-world lord (classed as deity). The name hargi also denotes evil/lower spirits generally in Evenki; capitalized here for the personified ruler of Hergu Buga, who in shamanic cosmology is reached by travelling down the world-river Engdekit.
Domains
- underworld
- death
Powers
- governs the lower world and the land of the dead Buni
- grants the shaman his clan animal-helper spirits
Relations
- sibling: Creator and GrandfatherReciprocal of evenki_seveki.sibling — Creator and his brother, lord of the lower world, in the Evenki dualistic cosmogony.G.M. Vasilevich, Evenki: Istoriko-etnograficheskie ocherki (1969) (secondary)
- enemy: Creator and GrandfatherReciprocal of evenki_seveki.enemy — Khargi spoils Seveki's creations and rules the hostile lower world.G.M. Vasilevich, Evenki: Istoriko-etnograficheskie ocherki (1969) (secondary)
Sources
- Khargi is the Evenki lord of the lower world Hergu Buga and the land of the dead Buni, complementary to the upper-world creator Seveki.: A. F. Anisimov, Cosmological Concepts of the Peoples of the North, 1959 (secondary); A. F. Anisimov, 'The Shaman's Tent of the Evenks', in Studies in Siberian Shamanism, 1963 (secondary)