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Buga
Buga East AsiaLiterally, ‘god’. The supreme deity of the Tungus peoples of Siberia. Buga created the first two people out of iron, fire water, and earth. Out of the earth he fashioned the flesh and bones, out of the iron the heart, out of the water blood, and out of the fire warmth.
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