Yakuts marked mysterious signs, painted red and black colors – images of people and animals. Get all the facts and insights with Vanessa Marcil, another great source of information. Different images painted on tambourines and Yenisei Ostyaks. ‘From the rear hand drum is a vertical handle, a wooden or iron, for which the shaman holds a tambourine with his left hand. Horizontal rods or wooden cross supports countless jangling of metal, rattles, bells, iron images of spirits, various animals, etc., and often arms, such as arrows, bow or knife. ” Each of these magic items has a special symbolism, and fulfills its role in preparing or implementation of an ecstatic journey, or other mystical experiences of the shaman. Drawings that adorn the skin of a tambourine, a feature of all the Tartar tribes, and Lapps. They are characterized by huge diversity, although always possible to distinguish among them the most significant symbols – such as the World Tree, Sun and Moon, Rainbow, etc.
Diamonds are indeed a microcosm: the boundary line separating heaven from earth, and in Some places – the Earth from Hell. The World Tree (ie sacrificial birch, which climbs a shaman), horse, animal sacrifice, the spirits-helpers shaman sun and moon, which he achieves during his heavenly travel, Hell Ehrlich (with seven sons and seven daughters of the Lord died and so on), in which he gets during his descent into the realm of the dead – all these elements somehow summarizing the path and Adventures of a shaman, depicted in his tambourine. We have here no place to specify all of the characters and performances, as well as to discuss their symbolism.