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A Yakut woman in traditional dress. The Yakuts engage in animal husbandry, traditionally having focused on rearing horses, mainly the Yakutian horse, reindeer and the Sakha Ynagha ('Yakutian cow'), a hardy kind of cattle known as Yakutian cattle which is well adapted to the harsh local weather.
The epics were originally strictly oral, and oral performance continues today in the Sakha Republic. [5] Poets, called Olonkohohut or Olonkohosut [6] (Yakut: олоҥхоһут, romanized: oloñxohut), perform Olonkhos through a mixture of spoken verse descriptions and sung character dialogue, with the olonkhohut indicating different characters and themes through tone and melody. [2]
After the Yakuts adopted Christianity from the Russians, they began to use Russian clerical names in official concerns.The naming conventions are similar to those of Russian names.
During the Soviet era, most or all of the shamans died without successors. In the 1990s, a neopagan shamanist movement called aiyy yeurekhé was founded by the controversial journalist Ivan Ukhkhan and a philologist calling himself Téris. [47] This group and others cooperated to build a shaman temple in downtown Yakutsk in 2002. [48]
She was worshipped throughout what is now called as Altai and Sakha. Her name means "rich, fertile, wealthy". She was the daughter of Kayra. Baianai is sometimes a woodland fairy or protector spirit found in Turkic-Altaic folklore and mythology. In Central Asia she is known as Payna. There are three Baianais: Bai Baianai: Goddess of hunting. [1]
With limited details, he concludes: "there is a lot of female cavalries." As he noted that they were from western Japan, it is possible that women from the western regions far from the big capital cities were more likely to fight in battles. Women forming cavalry forces were also reported during the Sengoku period (c. 1467 – c. 1600). [14] [15]
Shiksa (Yiddish: שיקסע, romanized: shikse) is an often disparaging [1] term for a gentile [a] woman or girl. The word, which is of Yiddish origin, has moved into English usage and some Hebrew usage (as well as Polish and German ), mostly in North American Jewish culture .
Women who inherited the leadership of a samurai clan. A woman who was named commander of the castle by a Daimyo. Due to the death of a male owner, his wife or daughter formally inherit the leadership of the castle. The list does not include: Women who had great political power but were not formally clan or castle leaders. Reigning Empresses or ...