Talk:Sagaan Ubgen

A fact from Sagaan Ubgen appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 August 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Mongolian shamanism (which comes in yellow and black) reveres a white old man (pictured) besides ongod such as Dayan Deerh and 99 or possibly 102 tngri?

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Statue?

The Russian article links this picture: File:Belyjstarec.jpg, but I can't tell from the Commons description if it is Sagaan Ubgen. LadyofShalott 03:04, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Belyi Staretz, or Belyj Starec in this case, is a transliteration of Белый Старец, the Russian name per Мелетинский 1982, p. 602 of Sagaan Ubgen. See Starets and — well — белый. One of the other names from that encyclopaedia entry (which has been copied in several places on the WWW it seems, including here for example) is in Kalmyk Oirat (калм.), for some reason that I haven't worked out yet. The article makes no other direct mention of Kalmykia, although a quick Google Images search turns up plenty of pictures on the WWW of statues of Цаган Авга/Цаган Аав there. Uncle G (talk) 10:46, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
By the way, that's the statue in front of the Golden Temple in Elista. Uncle G (talk) 10:59, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

more Kalmyk names

Бленд, Ирэна. "Загадки альтиста Данилова". Миф.Ру. {{cite web}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
Батырева, С.Г. (1991). Старокалмыцкое искусство. Элиста. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

According to Бленд, whose reputation for accuracy I haven't determined, Батырева 1991, that I haven't read (but whose author appears to be this Светлана Гарриевна Батырева), lists Джилийн эзэн, Джилийн Нойон, Цаган овген, Цаган авга, Газрын эзэн, Делкян Цаган овген, Делкян эзен, and Когшин Богд as additional Kalmyk names. A few non-scholarly sources (such as this news story) repeat the list, but I prefer to use Батырева 1991 myself. Not having read it, I haven't added these names (and their translations which are also apparently supplied) to the article. Uncle G (talk) 13:31, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]