Chukot

Ter nagedachtenis van de burgeroorlog 1918-1923. De Witten tegen de Roden.. Hier wonnen uiteindelijk de Roden van de Witten en namen de stad in bezit. In Jakoetsk duurde de oorlog zelfs nog tot 1929 voordat het rustig werd en mem met experiment van de socialistische heilstaat kon beginnen
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According to the ancient religion of the Yakuts, the whole world was divided into three parts: the Upper World, where light beings lived - the gods, the Middle World, where people lived, and the Lower World, where terrible monsters and evil spirits lived. People were not buried in the ground, so as not to give their souls to the evil monsters of the lower world. In order to bury the deceased, several pillars (from 2 to 7, depending on the wealth of the deceased) were specially dug in with crossbeams, and sometimes just branches of nearby larch trees were used for this purpose. A coffin was hollowed out of a single piece of a tree trunk and installed on top of the crossbeams. In this form, due to the dry climate, the deceased could survive for a long time, turning into a mummy. With the spread of Christianity in the 17th century, they gradually began to move to ordinary underground burials.Read more