古代チュルク人における『狼頭の神』について(<特集>シャマニズム研究)

抄録

According to the T'ang-shu, a wolf-headed beggar appeared and predicted the fall of the Pi-Yen-T'uo 薜延陀, a Turkish tribe, saying, "I am a god, the Pi-Yen T'uo is going to decay." The author, pursuing the meaning of this fragmental record, concludes that this reflects some shamanistic rite in which the shaman appeared in the pelt or mask of a wolf. (1) He refers to the stone-headed human figures reported by Aspelin from Southern Siberia, which, when compared with the faces of the kamennaya babka in the Altai District and in Northwestern Mongolia, resemble participants in some religious rite. (2) He discusses the fact that the prediction of the wolfheaded beggar in the T'ang-shu : "I am a god…" coincides with the formula of the prediction of shamans among peoples of Northern Asia. He points out that among peoples of Northern Asia. He points out that among the ancient Turks one finds legends of wolf ancestors, a golden wolf's head attached to the top of banner standards, and the appellation bari (wolf) given to the guards, and that these phenomena may bear some relationship to the account given in the T'ang-shu.