Segeen Sebdeg

Segeen Sebdeg, the 3rd of the 55 tenger of the western skies, is the Buryat god of winter, and "is married to Ugan Sesen ... ("first wisdom")".[1] Their daughter Sesegen Nogoon (goddess of the spring season) married Zasa Mergen Baatar.[2]

Another daughter of Segeen Sebdeg was Naran Gohoon ('Sun Beauty'), who was made sick by Atai Ulaan when he was refused to him in marriage by her father.[3]

Segeen Sebdeg's eldest "son has a fiery eye on the top of his head and a single tooth."[4]

Notes

  1. Sarangerel 2001, p. 218
  2. Sarangerel 2001, p. 219
  3. Agnes Birtalan : "Systematization of the Concept of Demonic and Evil," p. 252. In :- Klaniczay 2006, pp. 250-264 http://books.google.com/books?id=HkXBW4eKchQC&pg=PA252&lpg=PA252&dq=Segen+Sebdeg&source=bl&ots=W1-yRoYPG3&sig=go6CCIwqyxAoahcBhiJQaeJ0VdM&hl=en&ei=3m2uSviCMuWttgeF1YGbCA&sa=X&oi=book_r
  4. Sarangerel 2001, p. 219

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