Irkutsk shamans will help staff the museum collection attribute shamanistic XIX century.

Irkutsk shamans will help staff the museum collection attribute shamanistic XIX century. 


Shamans Pribaikalye visit Irkutsk Regional funds the museum, which houses the largest in the East Siberian shamanistic collection. Visit the museum funds on 10 April at 13.00 hours at the following address: Str. By Liebknecht, 193. The event is held as part of an expanded meeting of the Board of shamanistic communities Pribaikalye. 

The main purpose of the visit: familiarity with the collection, as well as advice to researchers on the subjects of shamanistic graves. 
  
  The collection of religious objects in the Irkutsk regional museum is the largest in Eastern Siberia. The history of its formation begins with the end of XIX century. 


Shamansky costumes materialized as an expression of religious beliefs, are of great value. Tech manufacturing almost identical, which makes it possible to compare the view of the world from different peoples of Siberia. Every detail of the costume had some philosophical sense, carries a certain meaning. 

In addition to the costumes in the museum collection ongonov, various religious objects, which are necessary shaman during rituals. 

Virtually every major ethnic groups of Siberia: Yakuts, Buryats, local ethnic formation Evenks, tofy, Soyot, Mongols and others in the collection of Yakutia, Far East, Eastern Siberia and Mongolia. Therefore, the study of this collection will help to talk about unity and the differences in peoples' attitudes. 

The value of the collection is defined by the fact that she collected at the end of XIX - beg. XX century, when religious retain their traditional appearance.



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