The Symmetry Worldview and Scientificity in the Worship of the God of Heaven Buga of the Far Eastern Indigenous People

Among the indigenous peoples of the Far East, the terms for heavenly deities include Buga, Sɛbɛki, ɛkseri, ɛnduri, Amaka, and Main. Buga is common to the Tungusic people, Sɛbɛki is to the northern group of the Tungusic people, ɛzeni and ɛnduri are to the southern group, and Amaka and Main are to local regions or groups. Buga is the earliest product, and the other heavenly deities are variations of Buga. For the indigenous peoples of the Far East, the god of heaven is a hybrid god that possesses the characteristics of a supreme god/god of heaven/god/spirit. As a supreme god, Buga lives with his wife and daughter, unlike other ethnic groups/races, and therefore has nothing to do with marriage. Also, since the god of thunder and lightning Agdi, is his closest assistant god, he was not transformed into the god of thunder and lightning. Since the 18th and 19th centuries, under the influence of Russian Orthodoxy, the god of heaven, Buga, was replaced by Sɛbɛki. Since Sɛbɛki was originally a single god, the reason Sɛbɛki replaced Buga after the adoption of Russian Orthodoxy is because the sun symbolizes absolute power in Russian Orthodoxy. The purpose of this paper is to reinterpret their traditional beliefs as a worldview suitable for the 21st century ecological civilization by clarifying the idea of symmetry that appears in their worship of the god of heaven. To these indigenous people, god of heaven Buga, as the supreme god, symbolizes universality, infinity, transcendence, and eternity. According to their mythological concept, god of heaven Buga was the first god they worshipped, and all other gods emerged through god of heaven Buga.