Ulyana O-O. Donorova

FEATURES OF THE ALGYSH PERFORMANCE OF SEANCHUR SOYAN AND TOZHU DEZHIT – SCHAMANS FROM THE TERE-KHOL (BASED ON ARCHIVAL RECORDS FROM THE FUNDS OF TUVAN INSTITUTE OF HUMANITARIAN AND APPLIED SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH)

The article aims to introduce into peculiarities of the algysh chant in the process of kamlaniye of famous shamans - Seanchur Soyan and Tozhu Dezhit from Kungurtug, Terekholsky district of Tuvan ASSR, who were informants of the Soviet ethnographer S. I. Weinstein [Weinstein 1991; Weinstein 2009]. The author has described archival materials contained in the scientific archive of Tuvan Institute for Humanitarian and Applied Social Economic Research under the Government of the Republic of Tuva, which are chanting samples of the above-mentioned shamans. The article is also based on the author's own research conducted during the First All-Russian Festival of shamans "Dungur" in the Republic of Tuva (in Aldyn-Bulak, Kyzyl kozhuun, 20-22, June, 2022). By interviewing the shaman Tos-Kirish Hohoo oglu Ot-ool (born in 1989), a representative of ethnic Tuvinians, living in the sumon Tsengel Bayan-Ulga aimag of Western Mongolia, the author has revealed differences and common features in shamanic ritual of spiritual communication of shamans from Tuva and Mongolia. The author has made a conclusion that the heritage of shamanic folklore with such components as poetic improvisations, intonational manner of chanting, playing the musical instrument demir-khomus during the kamlaniya, used in the shamanic rite complex of these shamans living in the Southwestern part of Tuva, as well as a shaman from Mongolia. The conclusions made are essential for study of mythology and the ancient beliefs of the Tuvans.