I kept a couple photos up my sleeve after the Tuva trip. It's a good thing too because the camera has been pretty quiet over the last couple weeks. These are Khakas burial stones. The Khakas are a people group of 76 000, they are related to the Tuvans but not Buddhist. These burial stones are in the fields all along the highway between Abaza and Abakan. Whole families and even horses were buried within a circle of stones. This burial method is similar to that of the Scythians, an ancient people who lived across the steppes of Eurasia.
I previously mentioned that I would not travel again until after semester. That still holds true, but there may be a chance to visit an Evenki festival in March. I may yet go to that and have the chance to visit with Yura the reindeer herder that I met back at Christmas time. Stay tuned for possible details in the next few weeks.
2 comments:
The photos and history are very interesting. There are a lot of people groups.
We don't hear the Schythians mentioned of often. I have a personal theory, which I have made no effort to determine the truth of, that they were the real inspiration for Gene Roddenbury's (sorry about the spelling) Klingons, not the Mongols.
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