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Yukaghir folk tale "Why doesn't the sun shine in winter?"

A long time ago, according to the stories of our grandparents, there were no long nights in the tundra in winter, the sun shone brightly in the sky every day. In the tundra, in the sea, it was warm, the trees and grass grew very thick, and the bear’s skin was not thick. Suddenly the sun began to come out less and less, hid itself and stopped shining altogether. Then the inhabitants of the tundra began to wait for the sun, but the sun did not come and did not come, and the nights became longer and it became colder. One day, a fearless Yukaghir went to look for the sun and disappeared, the fearless Yukaghirs went to look for him, but did not return.

Then the residents asked the moon:

- You are the moon and the sun, but you shine at night. You walk across the sky in winter, spring, summer, autumn, so tell us where our sun hid, why it hid from people, where it disappeared. Without the sun it is very bad, without the sun it is very cold.

Luna answers:

- Ask the most fearless person to find the sun.

When the inhabitants of the tundra stood and talked, the oldest grandfather came out of the yurt and said:

- Here, everything living and not living knows me, I have lived in this world for a very long time. Bear cubs and walruses know me, everything that is in the tundra, all the vegetation, everything that lies near the sea, stone, moss. Let the young people go fishing, graze the deer, but every day I sit near the fire, I can’t hunt or fish. Send me, maybe I will find the sun.

Then the inhabitants of the tundra consulted and decided to send the old man to find the sun. Grandfather decided on a long journey. He walks and walks, suddenly he sees the sun sitting by the fire and warming himself, the old man sat down near the fire next to the sun.

Then the sun asked the old man:

- Why did you come here?

And grandfather replied:

- People feel very bad without you. Don’t leave the sky in winter, we would be warm too.

The sun answers:

- In winter, you Yukaghirs are very cold, I’m also cold, I don’t have a fur coat. Look, I’m sitting near the fire, warming myself. The moon can walk across the sky in summer and winter, after all, he, too, was once like me, the sun. In winter, he didn’t go anywhere to warm up, he walked across the sky all day, so he froze and turned into ice. I can go to sky after I warm myself, but when I get cold, I will go to warm myself.

The old man could not help and had to return back. Since then, the Yukaghirs have no sun in winter, but it is always light in summer.

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Yakutian life summed up by artist Tuyaara Shaposhnikova

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Иллюстрации "Хозяин Ольхона". На основе бурятского фольклора Illustrations "The owner of the Olkhon Island". Based on Buryat folklore

Illustrator G. A. W. Traugot Иллюстратор Траугот Г. А. В.. Сказки Прибайкалья: бурятские сказки, тофаларские сказки, якутские сказки

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Reposted from YouTube. Altai - Telengits

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An Inuit woman with papoose, 1900, Alaska

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A shaman, or medicine man, from the Altai Mountains. In full dress, and with sacred drum and image, he is ready to invoke the weather-gods on behalf of his people.

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Ethnolinguistic map of Dagestan & Chechnya.

by atlas_cartography

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Lak Grandaughter. Dagestan, North Caucaus, Russia.

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The women of Kubachi, Dagestan. Photos by Anna Bernal.

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A detailed map of Sápmi (Traditional Sámi territory)

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Painfully true

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Please, when you see something written in Cyrillic, don't assume right away that it's russian. Russian is not the only language that uses Cyrillic. There are also Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Mongolian.

It's a sensitive topic especially for us Ukrainians because russian language is a weapon. It's a colonial language, it's presented like one and only true slavic language, it erases and replaces other languages. Belarusian is literally on the verge of extinction because of russian. Ukrainian has been banned 134 times throughout history, it is still called a "village language", a dialect of russian. Russian colonialism is literally the reason why there are so many russian speaking people in Ukraine (I was one of them btw). Ukrainian is banned on russian occupied territories and people are getting in trouble or even killed for using it there, Ukrainian POWs in russian captivity are getting brutally beaten for speaking Ukrainian.

Like okay, I can get why there's this confusion, so here's a clue to understand that the language you're looking at definitely is not russian — the letter і. If you see ї (like i but with two dots) it's 100% Ukrainian. If you see j it's Serbian. Russian alphabet also doesn't have such letters as Ђ, Љ, Њ, Ў, Џ (dont confuse with Ц ). Yes, it's not always gonna be easy to detect that the language in front of you is not russian, but when you have trouble with it just ask or run it through any translation app and it'll probably tell you the language.

Hope this will be helpful.