Humanities & Social Sciences 10 (2016 9) 2531-2537 ~ ~ ~ УДК 39:256 (=1.571.56) Genesis of Shamanic Instruments in the Light of the Yakuts’ and Mongols’ Mother-Beast Image Valerii E. Vasilev* Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North SB RAS 1 Petrovskogo Str., Yakutsk, Russia, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), 677027, Yakutsk Received 06.07.2016, received in revised form 10.08.2016, accepted 30.09.2016 All the peoples of a vast northern part of Eurasia and the Arctic, in particular, have known the idea of sacredness of the feminine origin of mother-goddesses, giving birth to all life on earth, since the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages. <...> It is probably that time that Siberian shamanism originates from. <...> This can be clearly seen in the bear feast, the genesis of which is observed in Eurasian ancient monuments. <...> In their ethnographic past the peoples of Siberia had the custom of the totem birds’, beasts’ and shamans’ bones burial on the tree branches or in the tree hollows. <...> The fetishes, associated with totemism and the cult of ancestors, have been widely used in Siberian shamanism until recently. <...> However, the fact that remains unchanged is that tambourines and stringed instruments have always been one of the most important attributes, the instruments prototypically running back to hunting bows and bags for storage of their ancestors’ spirits. <...> In a more rigorous understanding of this phenomenon the fetishes in archaic societies served as ancestral shrines and turned into musical instruments much later. <...> Long-term researches of shamanism have lead the ethnographers to a vital conclusion that all early forms of Siberian ethnic groups’ religion must be considered in their organic integrity as every single cult looks disadvantaged and does not reveal the fullness of the ancient people’s © Siberian Federal University. <...> Only a comprehensive approach to religious thinking of the aborigines of Siberia and the Arctic will make it possible to retract the scientific methodology, trying to show shamanism as the mentality of ethnic groups remaining at the Valerii E. Vasilev. <...> Genesis of Shamanic Instruments in the Light of the Yakuts’ and Mongols’ Mother-Beast Image level of their “ahistoric” development and being unable to create their own national ideology. <...> The legend of Ellei, the founder of Sakha who put his blind father into a хааhах bag <...>