history. first spoken. but the. thoughts to. his family. in the making. of. this republic. just as their ancestors have done over the centuries. and his wife vera live in a small village called. it's a. hundred kilometers east of moscow.

i was. there are two main groups. was. the same ethnic group they speak different languages and live in different regions of the compass. these people spent most of. the trip to get away from. dozens of like minded folks. will take the traveling local to the most mysterious places in the republic.

on the freeway as the city has promised to show them. we go here. then we have to get. cold weather. now we're going to try to reach the most interesting places. is the. point. few people have succeeded in reaching its peak it's.

often leads people astray. the drivers went missing. people often get. something. contact with one another. eventually reunite a coup. them. is considered a zone of abnormal activity local people often see unidentified flying objects. at . two hundred meters above sea level is the true.

or were will. only. visit. the capital of marielle the musicians. folk songs to entertain and residents with their traditional melodies centuries ago. was a fortress. but large scale development has recently begun. a large swamp has been replaced with an embankment buildings looking like castles complete with towers and ramparts sprang up here just a short time ago with us. this is a kind of renai sorts. this place is incorporated many aspects of venice. and here we see a northern influence with danish and dutch elements.

similar buildings went up in the mary ellen republic quite a long time ago one example is a magnificent old castle standing on the banks of the volga two hundred kilometers from york. it was built amidst a thick forest by russian eristic rats of the shower much of. the council was built not only by russian masters but also by foreign ones are being made to lend these tiles to the castle. here you can see the rock is then time and drum and stones as well as an alter russian style. in soviet times the castle was turned into a holiday resort but tourists were apprehensive about the building local people spoke of ghostly inhabitants who they believed to be the casals guardians.

today the castle is as imposing as it ever was the mess of doors leading into hollow rooms still produce a sinister creak. the. there are ghosts now castle. we hear the door screwed again as they move from room to room. but they don't bother us we share a common grounds and get along with them quite well. in the village of where you have jenny and coffee live everybody is getting ready for the press office. cleans his body you know both else before facing one of the most important events in his life that's daybreak he will take part in one of the

most ancient of sacred rights for the mari people. to moral take a candle to the sacred grove the mist weeks for such candles are made of him candles bought from shops are no good for this purpose they should be homemade. the candle symbolizes the link between me and god it will take my prayer to him. he is your for giving a mother a blessing to her son's life giving god. unlike christians who pray in church these worshipers go to a grove where they seek communion with nature but before setting else they say a brief prayer and. everybody coming to the grove brings domestic waterfowl with them they serve as

food for both the gods and the people you have getting to mention the office decided to sacrifice the fattest gives him his household a maori raghad geese and ducks a symbols of home and between three basic elements these creatures walk on earth swim in water and fly through the air. eight hundred animals were sacrificed here including a blue collar and a ram as well as nice and ducks. one woman from the romas team has a good knowledge of the area and she provides a running commentary for the rights of the in the praise service is taking place near the five sacred trees each tree is dedicated to particular diety. everyone carefully follows the guides words as they take in the sights along the way it was clear autograph is on the left hand side people praying the sacred place as soon as

we get to the village of new salon for the time that. special day that the committee of couple has been looking forward to as arrived at last. vera and you have jenny had reached the sacred grove situated a hundred kilometers from. they thought was a fellow to sacrifice birds have also been brought by mary from all over the republic also the two off the press to their gods. at first the grove resonates with goose folks soon after their only the echoes of priestly prayers and . these pagan priests. it's know how to communicate with the gods people praying in a grove last amidst pines and birches have strong beliefs in the forces of nature

they insist their faith is the world's oldest. people come with what we call sacrificial water fell. bringing in grievances along to. discuss their problems with the priest. and communicate by means of this tree. their requests and wishes on this table. enormous parts suspended of a bone finds the live side by side with the old. they're used to make porridge and just ceremonial beaks broth. take a look at the ducks and geese a boy. break up the bread into chunks and toss the pieces into the fire the bread and cheese has been brought to by washing peers. this is help people in russia

worship before the arrival of christianity the maori have prayed the same way to their gods for several millennia. old east people are offering prayers to many gods which is the five spalled to being set aside for bonfires in this grow for example. in this one they pray to the god. or asking for his grace in childbirth and happiness. and. the skin and organs of the crimini to in the bond funds it's forbidden to take any leftovers from the sacrificial offerings from the grove. culture is that so much i can't go but i do know god already the more so because the old world difference in these hard times there is no shortage of austerity in the slashing of budgets and the shrinking of the welfare state generate jobs and we

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in the southwest is full of historic sites. but the shortest road. from here a ferry is needed local pigeons of even the boats. to the other.

people here take. it from a young age it's a very traditional musical instrument. from. locals insist that the ghostly music reveals to fool. people on the. plane has been handed down from generation to generation you know that there are very many music players here that we call displays that. this road formed a link between russia's capital and its siberian part. connected the country's

western and eastern region it's. russian poet alexander pushkin once travelled along it it was used by stage coaches or. has been at the head of the district for several years during this time he's been able to restore a dozen historical landmarks. we marry from the western bank of the volga are not great in number there are only fifty or sixty thousand of. these these that is why we seek to stick together in order to safeguard our language culture and of course the land where we live in the midst of. the burial site is the only one of its kind in the region cattle breeder's of and. buried here in the second millennium b.c.

the time when the egyptian pyramids were built when excavation work was over scientists restored the burial place to its original appearance. the. twenty eight men between the ages of eighteen and twenty five are buried here there was also a woman and a man who was forty five to fifty years old when he was buried we think he was a blacksmith those men had died in battle arrowheads have been found and some of the skeletons skulls of other men were fractured with an axe. the romans convoy suddenly stops at the edge of a swamp it's too dangerous to drive any further. the travelers spend a good deal of time walking around the frozen silt when they manage to measure the

swamps and everybody realizes that attempting to cross the swamp is out of the question. we. will have to look for another routes. and there is one and a half meters of water underneath is. however another road makes up for their misfortune it leads to what for centuries has been known locally as the fortress mountain. the maori people who lived here a long time ago used it as a hideout against intruders legend has it that the maori people were terrified of being caught by the new forest creatures covered with hair who had chosen to settle in the mountains caves. were black. if they felt their breaths were they were on the. shoulders.

they had little contact with. these happened to long time ago. they were launched forests with tall trees. legends about the region that been handed down over the centuries by mouth to mouth of atrocious knows a great many ancient stories relating to the maori people. one of them tells a story of an old oak tree several generations of mari people have posed in its shade for a rest. the local people.

that. living in this village say the oak tree used to help make. this giant of a tree is seven meters thick and more than thirty meters tall some scientists believe the. is russia's oldest. city is found several kilometers away from the ancient oak in the middle ages the maori sought protection from invaders by building their settlements in out of the way places one of them is high on the bank of a river in the district. natural obstacles provided protection for the inhabitants of these fortifications. team people came to this grove from the region to pray for

a russian victory over napoleon people in the surrounding villages still tell the story of the maori who sacrificed twenty six to the gods. now it's time for me. to join other worshipers at the prayer in appealing to the gods. to the singing of an exodus touched sacrificial animals. this is followed with a meal shared by those taking part in the ritual giving out food from enormous pots to bring the people together according to their beliefs people get closer to the gods by eating in this way. everywhere try to be here for the service.

before nightfall the romans finally find what they set out for at the start of the expedition. depression. pit in the very center of a field. a safe distance from it the people living in this village used to plough these fields and grow crops on it. but. they were awakened by loud noises. when they came here they were surprised to see a large crazy in the middle of a field. where the boat some. scientists have found a stream beneath the depression when it erodes the top layer of the soil the ground sinks. with slope is very slippery and very steep i get scared at times i might be buried by sliding rocks a prospect i don't particularly relish. ok i'm almost there now. well there is no

water here local people prefer not to descend into the depression because this kind of cataclysm might happen at any time. that there is much to be learned from such expeditions people think that such things are only found in faraway lands but they are much closer to home. was pleasantly surprised just as he and his wife vera what about to head home after the service. you get in a good to come here for a moment. the priests whitecap was ceremonially placed upon his head as

a token of great respect. no i'm not able to keep a low profile or stand on the sidelines i will have to be directly involved in the prayers of ordinary people cherish hope they will look to me with hope and in my words expressed their sentiments in front of the sacred tree. and we should good sales and happiness. the couple has taken a plunge into the ancient faces people. by coming here they have truly experienced the joy of communion. they hope it will stay with them for the whole. until the next president that will once again bring the maori people together.

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am in moscow and trends are good to have you with us here on r t our top story of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu blames errata for attacks on its diplomatic staff in the indian and georgian capitals four people reportedly injured in a car bomb blast in new delhi in tbilisi the device was discovered before it went off or at least s. r. so he has more details still trickling in as the investigation continues but what we do know so far is that there have been two car bomb attacks one in new delhi india and wanted to police in georgia both targeting the israeli embassy now the one in georgia will stop before anything could happen the local embassy staff had found the bomb and it was defused before it could go off however in india it's a different case now the number of injured there has risen at present it's now at four and among the injured is a diplomat's wife.