. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . are called, according toone author, Nougait or Nogat, and according to Erman Ongotui. In some form ofthis same word, Nogait, Ongot, Onggod, Ongotui, we are, I imagine, to trace theNatigay of Polo. The modern representative of this Shamanist Lar is still foundamong the Buraets, and is thus described by Pallas under the name of Immegiljin: He is honoured as the tutelary god of the sheep and other cattle. Properly, thedivinity consists of two figures, hanging side by side, one of whom represents thegods
. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . are called, according toone author, Nougait or Nogat, and according to Erman Ongotui. In some form ofthis same word, Nogait, Ongot, Onggod, Ongotui, we are, I imagine, to trace theNatigay of Polo. The modern representative of this Shamanist Lar is still foundamong the Buraets, and is thus described by Pallas under the name of Immegiljin: He is honoured as the tutelary god of the sheep and other cattle. Properly, thedivinity consists of two figures, hanging side by side, one of whom represents thegods wife. These two figures are merely a pair of lanky flat bolsters with the upperpart shaped into a round disk, and the body hung with a long woolly fleece ; eyes,nose, breasts, and navel, being indicated by leather knobs stitched on. The malefigure commonly has at his girdle the foot-rope with which horses at pasture arefettered, whilst the female, which is sometimes accompanied by smaller figures repre-senting her children, has all sorts of little nicknacks and sewing implements. Galsang. Tartar Idols and Kumis Churn. Czomboyef, a recent Russo-Mongol writer already quoted, says also: Among theBuryats, in the middle of the hut and place of honour, is the Dsaiaga^hi or ChiefCreator of Fortune. At the door is the Emelgelji, the Tutelary of the Herds andYoung Cattle, made of sheepskins. Outside the hut is the Chandaghatu, a nameimplying that the idol was formed of a white hare-skin, the Tutelary of the Chase andperhaps of War. All these have been expelled by Buddhism except Dsaiagachi, whois called Tengri, and introduced among the Buddhist divinities. [Dorji Banzaroff, in his dissertation On the Black Religion, Shamanism,1846, is disposed to see in Natigay of M. Polo, the Ytoga of other travellers, Mongol Etugen—earth, as the object of veneration of the Mongol look upon it as a divinity, for its power as Delegei in echen, the Lord ofEarth, and on ac
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