Vasiliy Mandzhiev, about the ritual of making offerings to the deities of water
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Terbish, Baasanjav
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Vasiliy talks about a ritual performed by fishermen before going fishing: On the shores we kill a sacrificial sheep. The head of the sheep is put on a raft made from the vine bush and sent to drift on the water. During the ritual people pray so that they have a good catch. After that people go fishing. Before throwing the nets, the fishermen toss white coins into the water.
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Ritual, water, fishermen
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Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge
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Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin