SIBER-004 - ethnographic attestation
Evenki (Amur Evenki)
Russia - Amur basin (Priamurye), Russian Far East - East Asia
Weather / fertility magic
Source term: ветровой аэрофон / жужжалка
ветровой аэрофон (vetrovoy aerofon) = 'wind aerophone'; жужжалка (zhuzhzhalka) = generic buzzer/noisemaker in Vasilevich's wording.
Among the Amur Evenki, wind could be called rather than merely awaited. Podmaskin records a rotating “wind aerophone” used to summon it; an older account calls the instrument a zhuzhzhalka, a whirring noisemaker, but gives neither its construction nor a village.
Эвенки считали, что ветер можно вызвать магическим способом, вращая ветровой аэрофон.
The Evenki believed that wind could be summoned by magical means by rotating a wind aerophone.
Podmaskin, «Народные знания амурских эвенков», Россия и АТР, 2008, p. 88
- Object
- A rotating sound-maker described by Podmaskin as a 'wind aerophone'; Vasilevich's underlying account calls it a zhuzhzhalka (buzzer/noisemaker). No surviving object or construction is identified.
- Function
- Wind magic: the Amur Evenki believed wind could be summoned by rotating or turning the sound-maker.
- Map confidence
- low - Representative Amur-basin / Priamurye Evenki anchor; neither source names a settlement.
- Source location
- Podmaskin 2008, journal p. 88; Vasilevich 1969, p. 212
- Weather / fertility magic