The Cult Associations of Bydzhym Kuala Vyzhy and Lud Vyzhy in Light of the Genealogies of the Village Nizhnie Yuri’s Inhabitants
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Since the beginning of the XX century, researchers of the ethnography of the Udmurt people have repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that representatives of one or another old patrilineal clan (udm. выжы) in some settlements were divided into two cult associations – быдӟым куала выжы (worshippers of the ancestral sanctuary) and луд выжы (worshippers of the sacred grove). Members of one association, as a rule, did not participate in the religious and ritual practices of the other. The reasons for this separation have not received adequate coverage in scientific studies and need further study. In the proposed article, the author, using information from A. I. Pint about the division of representatives of the old Poska clan into the cult associations bydzhym kuala vyzhy and lud vyzhy in the village Nizhnie Yuri, traces through documentary sources the close genealogical connection between members of both associations. Since the positions of guardians of the bydzhym kuala and lud were often hereditary, over time, two related genealogical associations could emerge within a single village. Members of one conducted religious ceremonies in the bydzhym kuala and the other in the lud.
Source: Istoriko-kulʹturnoe nasledie
Author: Vladimir S. Churakov
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7130516157