ah mm ah mm . this is the ancient lake by called more specifically, the island of fallen, also known as the heart of bye, call. straight away, you can feel something mystical here. a place of unique traditions, an amazing mix of cultures and peoples, but what makes this place so appealing, we're going to speak to some of the most prominent locals of our horn and uncover some of its secrets are

ah, for. 3 2 3 ah, we're on our way to see you, william with his guide. her family has been on our horn for several generations, reserving the islands legacy, taking care of the local museum. 2 ah julia, hello, thanks for meeting us here. oh, such an interesting interesting place. tell me, have you lived here your entire life and what gives you the motivation to stay here

and preserve this culture in this heritage for everybody? yes, if i, when i was young, my parents used to bring me here to visit my grandparents that i spend whole summer here. you know, that's one thing i can say about all hon island is that i never wanted to live anywhere else. but, but when you come to all hon. yeah. especially in summers you get the sense of freedom is not good. and i don't just mean to move around. do i'm talking about a state of mind who would know you're surrounded by endless blue sky? will the see the mountains and the vast steps of m, i just thought that it gives you an undescribable feeling of inner freedom with them. there is no way i'd trade being here for anything else. i the all hung museum is my life's work, and much more. it's my duty to carry on the legacy of my ancestors. he, it's life in my yeah, it's not just my life, but my whole family's to this such a wonderful energy to this place. you can feel it,

but it's also bringing more traffic to all horn and to the island. is this hurting the energy here, or does it help in some way? is there a balance here? what does nice not you didn't like that there is no clear answer. it stuck with all hahn is millions of years old blue. it was here before you. it's alive now. you and it will live on it. i wouldn't say that the energy of this place is negatively affected him. so i'm really looking forward to seeing the museum. can you show me the way i'm going over share this way? so you ya, we're in the museum that your grandfather built. and there is a theory that the center of civilization is in africa, but we're getting more information that another center is right here in by call. or in fact, we know that native americans can trace some of their ancestry back here to by called, can you tell me a little bit more about that particular unit of cause i pro, i liked to tell you about a researcher from your could scott,

who spent his life studying league by carl i, his name was thing islov girl off. indeed he has since passed away, nor the idea he put forward. it was that at one time before the bye call basin was formed. but as of this area was inhabited by one of the oldest civilizations on the planet, at new sum, then when the tectonic plates started to shift out, and the bottom of lake by karl began to sink. this entire population sank under the water with it. talks of borrowing from the name, atlanta, and girl off called this civilization by carlita. and it's an uncontested fact that the people that inhabited all hon island migrated eastwards because this was during h in times. and the exact reason is still unknown than you. it could have been, you turn, advancing, grace here, don't get maybe they were simply traveling, look, or perhaps they followed animal herds to retain a source of food that good, whatever. the reason they went east to leave you at that time, the bearing straight that did not exist eternal and the 2 continents were connected

through a narrow land way, which scientists later called the bearing land bridge. busy through this land ridge you, people could cross to the other side and settle their equally. it is believed that these people were the original north american indians live. for several years. the experts conducted are here, logical research and excavations, gifts and scientists carried out various lab tests tell you it was confirmed that the people who lives in the bi col region and on all hon islands, see where the ancestor of the north american indians. so this really is a melting pot and mixture of cultures and mixture of religions. um, so how does it affect people on the island? do people get along here? we do, don't love to speak to miss allison, but we do have a mix of cultures here. and not just in the sense of everyday culture it's, we've had people of orthodox faith on sham hands, buddhists, catholics and muslims. a major ta, tardy, asper is so yes, this place really is a melting pot of this is number people would pass along parts of their culture and

borrow other tribes. customers on you these days, almost all the bureau outs and in general, the people living here play combined the practices of both shamanism and orthodox christianity. i know when they go to church services, but they also observe the customs and traditions of shamanism she targets as members of any other faith that happened to be on the island here, respect these geminus, tick rituals and the practices are strictly observed him. so that's the kind of cultural influence we've experienced honey. if i look around the museum, i see many interesting artifacts and exhibits. i understand some of the artifacts that you have here are really rich in heritage, in culture and historical. can you show me some of the artifacts that you have, but it never let me show you then because in one so you tell me about this is very interesting. the design of segment,

this is part of a we're out your, to my traditional housing. who does, it usually has 8 walls and every space serves a specific purpose. you the fireplace was in the center room and it's where the family guardian spirit dwelled us in the master of the fire. and the urine is i because when the family sat down to eat or had guests over the 1st bite was always given to the fire of these guys only after that they would start eating e b at the burnouts believe that fire purified everything cause it cleans the urine from evil spirits that could harm residence, don't say. so this is the central part. when i go, there were also the east and west sides of the yard of the east side was for women with crazy because a woman has children, the giver of life, the beginning of a new life and the sun rises in the east and a new day begins this symbolizes the beginning of something new i zion's cap. ah you men occupied the west facing part of the yard where the sun sets in the west

and the day's over i'd really be end death years in men were hunters and warriors they brought death. now and if there was a baby in the yard, the cradle would be between the entrance and the fireplace. if that's where they would hide it, we might. the fire was supposed to protect the baby from all evil spirits. natasha nests used various elements to protect them and gone, saying that there is one hanging over there, but they made them to be extremely scary. looking, shamans would make spirit dwell in such an angle, so it would gain protective powers. ah, that's why they had to look terrifying, so that evil spirits trying to get into the yard would be scared and run away. just ease up, but here is another symbol. always good sir. j ask me if you can see these posts all around. all hon sir gay means a tethering post. wouldn't it was used to tie horses up as there are flights steps all around here. after riding for days they needed rest, but they couldn't tie their horses to just anything. so bore out started installing

these posts on the boundaries between their villages. soon the sergei posts became sacred, narrow because they turned into meeting spots between families and tribes for them . good. they would spray them in a ritual. as they believed they had sacred powers, with the guarding spirit grew stronger, and people began to do rituals near them again to put them fellowship. oh glen, you provided god. i love how everything has not just a purpose, but it also has a meaning to it as well. um you mentioned about shamanism. it's not just a part of the culture or religion. it's really important to part of all of everything here. oh, well i to go with it. can you tell me more about shamanism

in better culture? so my knees looked at the excursion. shamanism is not really a culture or religion really. it's more like the world view of the variety of people living here. so in ancient times, people watch different processes for analyzed them and made conclusions. even if there was a storm, there won't be any fish or any of them. if there is thunder, isn't it? is going to rain. if there is drought, there won't be any harvest. louis, yes, yeah. they connected all these processes to territorial spirits. yes, sir. shamanism is the belief that everything has a spiritual master and you should be very careful with the spiritual world you shouldn't damage nature. so it is more like a world view and people have maintained it for generations. i see celia have you ever visited the showman or do you believe in sherman powers? yes, i'm going to go well, i've never tried to them. i do believe in that power. you but it should be

a last resort. i am lucky to have never been in a situation where i might need it. of some ways when i'm ill, the doctor can diagnose or treat me as to me that you could. you have to understand that shamanism is not to be mast, whether there are so you have to be careful with that of really chairman's communicate with evil spirits as well when they enter a trance with the spirits of the underground and you process, it's not right to think of them in terms of good and evil spirits can harm people sometimes. so you shouldn't go after the services of a sharman, for sheer curiosity. um, you can talk to them, but ask for their help only when you have no other option ones and i never had to thankfully, of the both noise. all hon is the heart of shamanism in eastern siberia. those because its energy is strong here. and you have to face the spiritual world, whether you like it or not, you know, sometimes the spirits guide you as people say, some unemployed. anyone can go out into the woods or did you get lost them and

simply travel in circles until they die. she put them you, nobody knows why this happened. allah, a person can be living here his whole life, and still get lost once he leaves his village from when you this has happened more than once, the media, another thing. but you must always make an offering to the spirits at the highest mountain between the town of career v and the ferry. look at the tip of all, hans. spirits are powerful. they're not, not what you have to make an offering of even if you don't believe in spirits most . but you, when i was a child with my family, you lived on gar school, you'd somebody, and one time we came to the island by car, with our friends, you believe it was in the seventy's when cars were slow and the roads bumpy? will we? but we stopped to have a snack near the sir gave post. he not the very i was at 7 with my brother was 14, was up there was another boy with us, my mother and the boy's father who was driving him. the boy and i saw coins scattered by the sir j. u. so we ran to collect them. why don't you look at the man

said, go on, but i will pay for the fairy with them. the fairy wasn't free. baglan was a bill, is that? so we boarded the boat to 7 year olds in the back seat to run. the fairies were small, the only fit 2 cars. our car was at the bag, which is a blue garage. the round was lifted by chains and the fairy set sail with another half way across the all. hans, give her the straight the fairies and and died. i mean, the ram fell down and our car started to roll back towards the water up. but on booth all the men on the fairy tried to hold on to the car, he leased the boy and i the ones who collected the coins were in the back seat, quick at the ferry was narrow and we couldn't open the car doors. this machine, you could go north with the sure you as soon as we were out, the engine started again here. the ramp was able to close and the car stopped moving. what would you will even spirits after that? if my mother became a believer law,

things like this happened here all the time. the keys, shamanism is all around here. you face it and you can't help. but believe in it. he said when you, when you viewed it and you get it, once a developer is in it unless you read it with. yeah. it's been an incredibly interesting conversation. i certainly learned a lot. thank you very much. me shannon ism is an integral part of the culture here we to decided to receive our blessings and we're going to see volunteer her guy of the chief show me on here on a horn. valentine. hi. this is us. i father. i just sort of tied a green ribbon on to the pole here. i hope that's a good luck color. hope that means something good for our team or the chorus of mac . and it's a good omen. emily green is the color of the earth while the earth and the sky will

help you. blue being the sky and green the earth. it'll help you in the hopefully all of us never thought that the be peace and harmony fall. it's like less if she was younger than come over here. these are see again. so tethering post 4 horses, said jack, one are gods. who descended from the sky or cards came down here to save the world from evil. these spirits are own across the shores of by col lucy, but these posts are here because the chief cut lives in this rock. according to legend what your po was here were what the go ahead if you good. so it seems to me that being a sharman, you have to be knowledgeable about medicine, you have to know about what the spirits but also how do you have to be a psychologist as well or yourself. of course, for my sham on needs to know how to be a psychologist, an oracle, a healer, and a fortune teller, or he must be old for things the. how often do people come to see you and i,

can you give me an example of what they come to see for lucia? but of them who are the people come with all kinds of requests alone of self. and they asked for spells to protect and rituals or rights to increase crop yield, a candle, breeding, hunting, or fishing. i think there are also birth and age related rituals for you from marriages to burial ceremonies, all the events that happen in our lives. we're talking about we only perform rituals if we're are just living. this is a, a home, a,

a, a. is there anything that is taboo or anything that's forbidden? a ritual that you as a chairman will not or cannot do. you will judge the boy and i will never do a ritual to start war. we don't want was that we won't agree to harm any one or do evil others what evil violent or wicked things are taboo and something will refuse to do. what guns can you treat any thing with the help of a showman? yet there is a shifting cover. so even of course not one to day modern medicine can do almost anything different. we stay clear. sometimes we use traditional healing practices. when people come to us thoroughly, otherwise we let professional doctors do their job, would have to figure medicine is there to treat people there and we look after the spiritual part have you had it before?

yeah. and what about people relying too much on shamanism? is it, what were you actually have to refer people to actually go see a traditional western medicine? i use the such things happen. of course, if a sharma knows he can't really help someone will send them to a doctor if there's a broken bone for example, to live and the patient needs a sprint or a cost for that they need to see a doctor. what does your does nothing, a shaman can do, in this case, i could hit my tambourine a 1000 times, and it wouldn't help bootable a sham and needs to be able to tell people when they can't help. let's go back to yours. what is a common misconception about sharman is that you would like to clear up or what is something that you can tell people that they don't know about? shamanism law. most people's idea of a shaman is a person jumping around and beating a tambourine. what a good, it's a general misconception. you need to understand that a sham on is some on equipped with spiritual knowledge. i need someone who knows

the legends and traditions of the people. he's the bearer of the people spirit in russia. traditional shamanism is practiced among indigenous ethnic groups inhabiting siberia, the north, and the far east. you don't want some russians, italians or french might have is just a hobby neo shamanism which is not the same traditional shamanism as a religion. a faith practiced by indigenous ethnic groups. while neo shamanism is like a punk some culture with neo shamanism and traditional shamanism. these are 2 entirely different thing. what's our told you that you needed to be a shannon? how did you know that shamanism was your calling? it was tradition that initiated me into sherman hood when i started learning studying the religion. i can't say i've always known i'd be a showman for you. i didn't know. i lived like many other people worked at a factory served in the army. just like most people of my generation and then i was

chosen to become a showman, which was and i took up my new duties for that is from secret form. what can you see about the future, or what can you tell us about, or even your hopes about humanity and what we can expect. moving forward more humankind is standing at the threshold. there's a choice to make, either to slide back and become like reptiles, crocodiles, or move forward to spiritual heights and become better people at each turn at every rebirth. a person should become better, stronger, more beautiful than that, and closer to perfection. each time we need to take one small step upwards and become a little bit better than before with every person needs to work on themselves, improve and re educate themselves, so it's very important. i thank you, dear sure, lou, but it was with

here on all horned magic is everywhere and it can be clearly expressed through art and it can be seen through the eyes of artist dashing number, cough and with ah dashing. hi. hello, thank you for having us in your workshop to see where the magic is made. you

yourself started as a local branch, an artist, and now your world famous. and you said that your success is based on your roots at home. can you tell me about that? that they are a full i think it's because i'm still a berardi and artist. it's just a geography in some regard has become wider. yeah. this area around by kyle has given me everything. knowledge, culture, history. how would you by, coll has a vast history news. archaeological findings indicate a great civilization, was here, a few century dc, and it's a fascinating world. hm. i thought interesting. interesting. now you're an artist, but also every one in your family is an artist as well. talk to me a little bit about a genetic do you think or is it nurture the surrounding culture has inspired, you know? yeah, well i think it's both, but mostly i would say it's genetic, but them for generations. my ancestors were crafts medicating back then it was

difficult to call in the heart of him in those times. so just like in renaissance europe, artists were jacks of all trades, and so were our ancestors midnight. they would create everything from daily items to church goods and your mother in some way. that is an art people by can had a lot of knowledge and a lot of crafty movie missa. now your sculpture on cape a hub boy is known as the guardian of by call. we went out to visit it. it's, it's beautiful piece, but you call it the father of my call. is there a difference? do you have a different meaning to this particular piece? of artwork, what ethical music it in bureaucracy and language i call it by girl by they go by weight, like where by girl is by coll and by they is father. according to our ancient tradition, there are 13 deities around by col. bye, and we worship the 13 keepers of the lake, but as a united them all in one face to emphasize this ancient culture. to me, it's

a collective image. the yeah, related to the national culture and beliefs of the local population of the public knows it as the keeper of biker, but to me, it's by gal buffet. now we live at an age of multiculturalism, where sometimes local indigenous cultures can get lost in their identity, can be lost forever. what do you see yourself as kind of a guardian of brach and culture? or maybe at least preserving your culture for future generations to come? no, yeah, boomers. well, i do this deliberately mindfully minimizing the knowledge i have from my ancestor says, am i pass it on using the instruments i possess? being a sculptor, i cast my ard and bronze, or willow rider or musician, what would of course be different? no, i use visual art to pass on this knowledge greater. so i keep saying though, i grown that we are losing our culture, this knowledge,

an alarming pace. now this is what worries me, a lot of it, which is in your work is an exciting. it's energetic, it's fantastic. um there's also it can, it can actually be intimidating in some ways, but there's also definitely a magical quality to it. do you think that there's a mystical side to be an artist as well, mo ya's name. i don't know about other artists. another culture, something, well, i think what i do is characteristic of my people know and siberian people in general. the union for it or it is only being characterized as buddhist. start for the past few centuries and with in before that it was considered a pagan culture of even today. and buddhism in this region is strongly mixed with pagan culture. what got it? i think this pagan aspect shows quite strongly in my article because siberia is misused what most iberia is all about this raw power through it. and so is by carl

. that is that even with its winds and extreme temperature. so you're on food. if it's cold here, it's freezing when it's hot, here it's hotter and my art is much like nature. and yet whether i wanted or not, it's just the way it is separate other than i used. thank you very much for taking us, taking the time to see us. it's been a pleasure very much. ah ah ah

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