Lord of the Lower World

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 Grandfather
• enemy: Creator and Grandfather

Sources

• A. F. Anisimov, Cosmological Concepts of the Peoples of the North, 1959
• A. F. Anisimov, 'The Shaman's Tent of the Evenks', in Studies in Siberian Shamanism, 1963