AtDtDA(28): God Didn't Do This?

[rich]

>
>  "Agdy, their God of Thunder"
>
>  The Tungus have only one expression for the thunder - agdy -, by which
>  they also describe the old man, the lord of the thunder as well as all
>  the thunderbirds that come down to earth and cause the thunder.... any
>  wicked shaman can call the Agdy in order to do harm to a group of
>  people he hates or even to a whole clan.
>
>  [...]
>
>  For a long time, there had been tribal feuds between a group of Tungus
>  clans in the basin of the Stony Tunguska and clans living along the
>  right tributaries of the Lower Tunguska. Eventually, this hostility
>  resulted in the shamans sending their evil spirits against each other
>  to cause diseases. Then one of the shamans called the Agdy to destroy
>  the hated enemies. In the early morning of the 30th June 1908 an
>  interminable legion of Agdy came flying down upon the grounds of the
>  Shanyagir clan and brought disaster to many families of the Shanyagir
>  ....Owing to these impressions, the inhabitants of that part of the
>  taiga fled in panic in all directions, leaving every last one of their
>  belongings behind. All this is blamed on the Agdy.
>
>  Now many Tungus believe that only the Agdy can live at the place of
>  that catastrophe; it has already been 20 years since then, and still
>  nobody dares turn up in this area.
>
> ______________________
beyond the connection to Ag the DaY in the title, any other
significance of AgDy also referencing the chemical alloy AgDy?
(Silver-Dysprosium)

Rich