Bolot-Sagan-Noyon

A Buryat god of diseases, the "owner" of Sibirskaya yazva (in Buryat called bomo), or anthrax. It is believed that every disease has its zagan, "owner."

The name Sibirskaya yazva literally means "Siberian ulcer."

References

Sources

  • Czaplicka, M. A. (1914). Shamanism in Siberia. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Czaplicka, M. A. (1969). Aboriginal Siberia: A Study in Anthropology. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 286.