Some semantic parallels of the Yakut traditional religious worldview and the teachings of Agni Yoga: the relationship between the concepts of buor kut and salgyn kut and “etheric body” and “astral body”
It is well known that in the Yakut (Sakha) traditional religious-philosophical worldview, a psychophysical basis of a healthy person consists of a system of three parts, so-called kuts (souls): iye kut (mother soul), salgyn kut (air soul), and buor kut (earth soul). All these three kuts interact with each other, as well as with a physical body and the surrounding world through a vital energy called as sur. Most authors, both among ethnographers and modern researchers, unanimously consider iye kut as the main one among the three kuts. At the same time, important life-supporting functions of a living person in an embodied state on Earth are assigned to the concepts of salgyn kut and buor kut. In this work, based on the research of scholars, folk epics, as well as materials collected by visiting local historians, a semantic analysis of the properties reflected by the concepts of salgyn kut and buor kut is carried out. Semantic parallels were found with the currently well-known teaching of Agni Yoga. As the authors established, Agni Yoga uses corresponding concepts that structure a psycho-physical activity of a person to describe and explain the manifestations of a person. Namely, we have investigated concepts “ethereal body” and “astral body” in the framework of Agni Yoga. The Teaching of Agni Yoga was published in Russian in 1924-1938, thanks to the works of Elena Ivanovna Roerich. The authors revealed semantic connections between the categories of buor kut and ethereal body, as well as between the concepts of salgyn kut and astral body, in which their similar properties were established in relation to many processes and objects of the spiritual and material worldview, in accordance with the visions of both religious philosophical systems. The identification of common semantic parallels in the cultural and philosophical terms is the establishment and strengthening of cultural ties between the Russian people and the Sakha people.