{"id":"RUSIN-006","label":"Enets posi / vyrvyr wind-calling whirler","people_or_site":"Enets","country_current":"Russia","historic_region":"Taimyr / lower Yenisei (forest and tundra Enets)","macroregion":"Siberia / Arctic Siberia","local_name":"поси (forest) / вырвыр (tundra)","source_term":"вращаемая гуделка (rotated hummer), Sheikin school","source_language":"Russian","object_description":"A whirled hummer in the shape of a spindle or a feather.","function_summary":"Whirled to summon the wind; magical weather work named alongside the киука button-buzzer","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"SHEIKIN2002_ENETS_WHIRLER","source_type":"web_encyclopedia","source_url":"https://arctic-megapedia.com/blog/2020/12/04/muzyka-jencev/","page_or_plate":"Instrument list, item 4 (киука / поси / вырвыр sentence)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Potapovo on the Yenisei, the main forest-Enets village, anchoring both dialect terms; the tundra-Enets community sits downriver around Vorontsovo (71.70 N 83.57 E)","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On the lower Yenisei, where the river spreads toward its Arctic gulf, the Enets whirled a hummer carved in the shape of a spindle or a feather. The forest people around Potapovo called it поси; out on the tundra it was вырвыр, a name that is simply the sound itself, vyr-vyr. Swung on its cord, it possessed the magical ability to summon the wind — no small power on a peninsula where a rising breeze means relief from the mosquito swarms of summer. The Enets named it in one breath with the киука, a button spun on a twisted loop, but the two were different tools: the button buzzed between the hands, while the feather-blade flew on its cord. Both belonged to the same sound-world as the shaman's celestial musical bow and the bell rung to address the soul of the dead — instruments for speaking with things that have no ears.","pull_quote":"Вихревая жужжалка из пуговицы или винта киука и вращаемая гуделка в форме веретена или пера поси (лесн.), вырвыр (тундр.) обладали магическими способностями вызывать ветер.","pull_quote_translation":"The vortex buzzer made from a button or screw — kiuka — and the rotated hummer in the form of a spindle or feather — posi (forest), vyrvyr (tundra) — possessed magical abilities to summon the wind.","pull_quote_cite":"Arctic Megapedia, «Музыка энцев», after Sheikin 2002","term_gloss":"вырвыр (tundra Enets) is reduplicated onomatopoeia — the whirr itself, vyr-vyr; поси is the forest-dialect name for the same swung hummer.","cls":"weather","class_label":"Weather / fertility magic","color":"#2F6FA3","is_candidate":false,"flags":["weather"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Arctic Megapedia, 'Музыка энцев' (after Yu. I. Sheikin, 2002), instrument list item 4","url":"https://arctic-megapedia.com/blog/2020/12/04/muzyka-jencev/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260306024821/https://arctic-megapedia.com/blog/2020/12/04/muzyka-jencev/"}],"source_citations":"Arctic Megapedia, 'Музыка энцев' (after Yu. I. Sheikin, 2002), instrument list item 4","source_display":"Arctic Megapedia, 'Музыка энцев' (after Yu. I. Sheikin, 2002), instrument list item 4","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A whirled hummer in the shape of a spindle or a feather.","function_display":"Whirled to summon the wind; magical weather work named alongside the киука button-buzzer","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"enets","display_name":"Enets posi / vyrvyr wind-calling whirler","image":{"full":"assets/objects/RUSIN-004_neprajz_nm39893_middle_ob.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/RUSIN-004_neprajz_nm39893_middle_ob_thumb.jpg","alt":"Ob-Ugric bullroarer from the Middle Ob: a reddish-brown wooden board with a pointed blade, narrow cord attachment and long loose cord.","credit":"Néprajzi Múzeum, Budapest, NM 39893","license":"Museum record marked 'Creative commons license' (variant unstated) — rehosted low-res","source_page":"https://gyujtemeny.neprajz.hu/en/collection/item/101180241/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"An Ob-Ugric bullroarer from the Middle Ob (1850–1900).","pool_id":"auto-RUSIN-004_neprajz_nm39893_middle_ob"},"slug":"rusin-006-enets"}