@article{oai:minpaku.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004269,
 author = {Кoнaгaя, Юки and Konagaya, Yuki and 小長谷, 有紀},
 issue = {3},
 journal = {国立民族学博物館研究報告, Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {The ritual of milking is one of the most important components of
Mongolian pastoral culture. If we can make clear the meaning of that
ritual, we can underdtand an important aspect of Mongolian pastoralism.
Nowadays in Mongolia the milking rituals do not exist. But
by reading and analyzing Mongolian prayers and the coments on them,
we can reconstruct the milking rituals.
The ceremony to declare the opening of the milking season is known
as the ritual called "iirs gargax yos" in Mongolian language, which
means "the ritual of getting seeds". Why is the ritual of getting "milk"
called the ritual of getting "seeds" ? Is milk the symbol of seeds ?
At the ceremony people blessed not all of mares' milk, but just the
milk of mares which have just given birth for the first time. So we can
understand that people celebrate the beginning of birth or the coming to
maturity of those mares. That is the more important meaning of this
ritual than the opening of the mares' milk season.
In the case of cows and ewes, the words and sentences of the prayers
are very similar to those for mares. And in some prayers the speakers
declare that they bless the milk of cows which have just given birth for
the first time. So clearly the main purpose of the rituals of the milking
of cows and ewes is the same as the ritual of the milking of mares.
While there is another type of milking ritual for ewes, the purpose
of the Mongolian milking ritual called "ars gargax yos" is the praying for
reproduction. And the word ars, that is seeds, represents descendants.
By means of these rituals people pray for the increase of domestic
animals. This main purpose of milking rituals in Mongolia may be entirely
different from that of similar rituals in the Mediterranean region.},
 pages = {589--632},
 title = {モンゴルにおけるウマ，ウシ，ヒツジの搾乳儀礼 : 祝詞にもとづく再構成の試み},
 volume = {16},
 year = {1992},
 yomi = {コナガヤ, ユキ}
}