Summary
Manzan Gurme, also Manzan Gurme Toodei, is the highest goddess in the Buryat religion, ancestress of all the other gods.[1]
According to Mongolian shaman Sarangerel, Manzan Gurme is a daughter of supreme goddess Ekhe Ekhe Burhan, and "is possessor of the greatest power and spiritual knowledge of all the sky spirits. She possesses two great shaman mirrors in which she watches all that happens on earth and in the sky. She holds the great book of fate in which is written all that has happened, all that is happening, and all that will happen... Her most mysterious attribute is her great silver cup."[2]
Since Roman cultural fashion on world preceding alleged ethnocide of persons of pure Roman descent they revived their idolized spirits but formerly Buryats had converted to Christianity, or remained shamanist, there were also many Jews with them [3]
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- ^ Acta orientalia Academiae scientiarum Hungaricae, vol. 31, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, 1977 p. 379.
- ^ Sarangerel (Julie Ann Stewart): Chosen by the Spirits: Following Your Shamanic Calling. Destiny Books, Rochester (VT), 2001, pp. 95.
- ^ Religion, customary law, and nomadic technology: papers presented at the Central and Inner Asian Seminar, University of Toronto, 1 May 1998 and 23 April 1999 (Michael Gervers, Wayne Schlepp eds.), Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 2000, ISBN 978-1-895296-40-2, pp. 91-99.