November 1 Iengra Nerjungri area died strongest shaman in Yakutia Savey – Vasiliev Semyon Stepanovich.
He was born in 1938 (the documents), and in fact – in 1932. Throughout his life, Savey spent in the forest with deer, firmly believing in the existence of good and evil spirits.
He became a shaman in 1975, and kamlat – three years earlier. Shaman’s name Savey is known far beyond the borders of Yakutia, he was considered the most powerful shaman in the world such as it is, shamans twelfth heaven on the planet units. In late October, Savey was a few days in Yakutsk, where the new shaman’s costume (the third in a lifetime, made of bear skin), he spent his last five rites. October 29, he returned to his native village and in the night from October 31 to November 1 he was gone. Savey was buried in Iengra November 5. Prior to the memorial service at night near the Savey kamlat Haratala shaman.
Unfortunately, spending Savey last journey could not his disciple – Shaman Fedot Ivanov from Vilyuisk, but flew out of the capital of Yakutia his friend and assistant – a historian, ethnographer, writing a book about Saveye – Anatoly Alexeev. The last way grandpa Savey spent his fellow villagers, residents Nerungri, relatives and friends. During the funeral procession drove by tradition reindeer sled.
At the funeral of Savey one of those present said that the very heavens mourn this loss in Yakutia – the day of the death of a shaman on November 1 in Yakutsk was rain. Who will be the shaman in Iengra know only spirits, but allegedly Haratale during the ritual about the deceased Savey his spirit said that it is likely to be a young female udaganka.
Author: Irina Vasilyeva
Source: SakhaNews
Translation: Google
