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."

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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.