their prayers will avert floods quakes and manmade disasters. services like the use a rooted in ancient history these words were first spoken nearly a thousand years ago but the worship is gathering here mel a thought to be europe's last pagans. are not online or in. public. over the centuries.

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history. to the most mysterious places in the republic. on the freeway as the city has promised to show. we go here and then we will start with you. then we have to go off the roads here could be. extreme coming here in such cold weather. now we're going to try to reach the most interesting places nation is the point of where we will look for. caves.

republics highest point is mount. only a few people have succeeded in reaching its peak it's that this often leads people astray during this expedition three vehicles lost their way the drivers went missing and the walkie talkies weren't working. people often get lost in this area they just lose their bearings there is something odd going on when we can't establish contact with one another either by phone or walkie talkie. however. eventually reunite according to them. is considered a zone of abnormal activity local people often see unidentified flying objects here at. two hundred meters above sea level is the true

apex of the. whole floor. of the. visit. the capital of. the musicians they sing 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 share much of. the council was built not only by russian masters but also by foreign ones. they too lent these tile to the castle. here you can see baroque is then time and drama. as well as an altar russian style.

in soviet times the cultural 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 message of doors leading into hollow rooms still produce a sinister creak. the. the real ghosts. we hear the door screwed as they move from room to room. but they don't bother us we share a common ground and get along with them quite well. in the village of. coffee if everybody is getting ready for the press

office. cleans his body and above else before facing one of the most important events in his life that's daybreak he will take part in one of the most patient of sacred rights for the marri 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 forgiving a mother a blessing her son's life giving god. unlike christians who pray in church these worshipers go to a grove where they seek communion with nature. 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 m.r.e. regard geese and ducks as 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 docks. one woman from the romas team has a good knowledge of the area and she provides a running commentary for the it's a bit of an appraiser basis 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. is on the left hand side people praying the sacred place as soon as we get to the religious new sellout level to left. the 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 oaks soon after their only the echoes of the priestly prayers

and. these pagan priests. how to communicate with the gods people praying in a grove lost amidst pines and birches strong believes in the forces of nature they insist their faith is the world's oldest. people with what we call sacrificial water fell. in grievances along to. discuss their problems with the priest. and communicate by means of this tree. their requests and this table. enormous pots suspended if a bone finds the lips side by side with the old. they're used to make porridge and a ceremonial broth. to take a look at the docks and. break up the breton two chunks and the pieces into the

fire the bread and cheese have 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 the several millennia. old these people are offering prayers to many gods which is. being set aside for in this group for example. they pray to the god. or asking for his grace in childbirth and happiness. the scale. of the mated and the bond funds it's forbidden to take any leftovers from the sacrificial offerings from the.

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district in the southwest of madill is full of historic sites and rich and legends but the shortest road there ends on the shore of the volga the great russian river from here affair is needed local pigeons of even memorised boats. there's a flux of regularly features a ride from one shore of the volga to beata. i'm

. on the. plane has been handed down from generation to generation you know that there are very many. 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. and. the burial site is the only one of its kind in the region cattle breeders of an iranian tribe 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. 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. have been found and some of the skeletons skulls of other men were fractured with an axe. the romas 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 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 mountains. 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 of 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. other shoulders.

they had little contact with. these happened and long time ago. they were launched forests with tall trees. legends about the region have been handed down over the centuries by mouth to mouth of the trove of great many ancient stories relating to the lottery people. one of them tells a story of an old oak tree several generations of married people have posed in it shape for a rest. it

. used to help. the giant of a tree is seven meters thick and thirty meters tall some scientists believe the. oldest. city is found several kilometers away from the ancient oak. in the middle ages protection from invaders by building 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 from the region to pray for. people in the surrounding villages still tell the

story of the. twenty six of the gods. to join. prayer in appealing to the gods. taking part in the ritual. to bring the people together. people get closer to the gods by eating in this way. mari people from all over have come here even those living in moscow and st petersburg. everywhere in russia trying to be here for this press of us.

before nightfall the romans finally find what they set out for at the start of the expedition the depression. of norma's pit in the very center of a field they hold their vehicles at a safe distance from it the people living in this village used to plough these fields and grow crops on it. but. there were awakened by loud noises. when they came here they were surprised to see a large crazy in the middle of a field with some water in the boat some. scientists have found a sub to raney and 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. yevgeny was pleasantly surprised just as he and his wife vera where about to head home after the service. you can 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 as i express their sentiments in front of the sacred tree. i wish you good sales and happiness. the committee of couple has taken a plunge into the ancient face of the 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 to get.

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