Serge ( Bur. Serge - “horse-knot”) - ritual pillars and trees of the Buryats , Yakuts .
Serge means that the area where it is installed has a host. It is placed in the form of a pillar at the yurt , at the gates of the house (“while the serge stands, the family is alive”). Serge cannot be destroyed - it must itself become worthless.
Serge is associated with the cult of the horse - owners and guests tied horses to it, and it is also a symbol of the tree of life , the world tree that unites the three worlds. Three horizontal grooves are cut on a pole. The upper one is intended for tying horses of celestials of the upper world, the middle one is for horses of people, and the lower one is for horses of the underworld.
In the past, serge were installed near each yurt, and in addition - during the initiation of the shaman (rite of the shanar). In the burial places of shamans, very high serge were installed - for the hitching of the gods and spirits. Also at the shamans' burial site, serge were installed in the form of stone obelisks ( deer stone ). The most famous of these stones - Altan-Serge (“Golden Horse”), is located in the Gusinoozersky datsan .
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Interesting Facts
- In September 2007, a sign in the form of a serge was erected in the Kolomenskoye Museum and Reserve in Moscow in honor of the 375th anniversary of the entry of Yakutia into the Russian state [1] .
- In October 2009, in France, the Yakut diaspora installed serge in the Champagne Valley.
See also
- Inuksuk
Notes
Literature
- Manzhigeev I.A. Buryat shamanistic and pre-shamanistic terms. - M. , 1978.
- Dugarov D.S. The historical roots of white shamanism. - M. , 1991.
- Guide to Aginsky Buryat Autonomous Okrug. - M .: Vanguard, 2006 .-- ISBN 5863942126 .