E13. Tambourine is a lake. 36.39.

The shamanic tambourine is compared or associated with a lake.

Vilyuisk, Central and Verkhoyan Yakuts, Forest and Tundra Yukaghirs.

Eastern Siberia. Vilyui Yakuts (1922-1925) [episode of shamanic bearskin sacrifice: "I, brave, being a howl of a restless sky, being a woodpecker of the vast sky, being a seagull of nine heavens, being a crow of the distant sky, So coming and sitting here with a tambourine the size of a lake, having a friend of Mr. Tambourine with nine knuckles <... >"]: Popov 2008:245 (Yakut. original), 247 (Russian translation); central Yakuts (Ust-Aldan district, 1941) [description of shaman Aitalyyn in olonkho: "if you look at [her], sitting,: /like a round lake/a huge venerable tambourine/placing an edge on your left knee, /in three places ringed silver/booming mallet/holding with your right hand, /with a hole in the middle, /with talkative trinkets, the handle [tambourine] /grabbed across, /fringed clothes/draped over your shoulders, /among Udagan is the greatest, /with an eye like a flaming morning star, /looking insightfully, it turns out"]: Burnashev 1993:252-253 (including the Yakut. original); Verkhoyan Yakuts [ description of the abaasa in the fairy tale: "One arshin long, half a face, half a carcass, in Doha made of sacrificial skin, knee pads made of "bestial death and hunger strike", tightly wrapped from mice to the waist of heaven a thick smooth iron belt; with a disfigured face, like a puddle on a round field (with a lake) in bad weather, bald spot, like a twisted rusty red-copper cauldron, and around this bald spot a few iron hair, like shallow hair; swollen eyes like the twisted iron rings of horse bits, a nose with a nodule like the shin of a good horse, lips with interceptions, like ice piled up by January a month in the ice-hole of a rich man; above his lips there is a black and gray beard, like the tail and mane of a rotten sacrificial skin, several wrong teeth, like split and burnt stumps left ancient inhabitants; in his left hand he had a leather four-angled ringing damask tambourine, like a large deep lake that had just turned ice, and in his right hand a grumpy pounding resin stick (to a tambourine), like a severed individual bone of an elk"]: Khudyakov 1969:292.

SV Asia. Forest and tundra yukaghirs (as well as yukaghir-omoki?) [jalil 'lake; shaman's tambourine']: Nikolaeva 2006, â„– 628:181.