RUSIN-004 - secondary catalog
Khanty vot vokhty asking-for-wind whirler (Kazym)
Russia - Kazym river, Beloyarsky district, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug; dialect terms also from the Salym, Vakh-Vasyugan and Surgut Khanty - West Siberia
Weather / fertility magic
вот вохты (Kazym); пэрхэттэх (Salym); пухлы (Vakh-Vasyugan); коркимох (Surgut) Russian
Source term: жужжалка: вихревая (пропеллер) и вращаемая
вот вохты (vot vokhty, Kazym) = "to ask for wind"
Etymology. вот вохты (vot vokhty): Kazym Khanty вот "wind" (cognate with Mansi вōт of the wind-calling flying board) + вохты "to ask"; the source glosses the compound «ветер просить». (high confidence)
On the Kazym River, the Khanty called the whirler vot vokhty—“to ask for wind.” A blade circling on its line turned that request into sound. By the time the name was recorded, the weather-maker survived chiefly as a children’s toy.
2 разновидности жужжалки, вихревая (пропеллер) и вращаемая, имеют одно название... вот вохты («ветер просить»).
Two varieties of the buzzer — a whirring propeller and a swung one — bear a single name... vot vokhty ("to ask for wind").
«Музыка хантов», Arctic Megapedia (Sheikin school), archived copy, 2019-03-09
- Object
- A blade swung on a line to produce a whirring sound.
- Function
- Wind-summoning sound instrument, later chiefly a children’s toy; its Kazym name means “to ask for wind.”
- Map confidence
- medium - Kazym river regional anchor (the dialect whose name encodes wind-asking)
- Source location
Page references
Arctic Megapedia «Музыка хантов» (Wayback 2019-03-09)
- Weather magic
- Toy / secular survival