The second post! #TheDryCreek; #HoytoGol; #Buryatia; #Northernvalley
Look at these photos!
In these two photos you can see the Tunkinsky goltsy again but the main thing is one of the sacred peaks of our mountains - The Altan Mundarga! That's a buryat name, in English it sounds like The Golden Peak. Unfortunately, I don't know a true story of this name and any folklore stories which are related to the Altan Mundarga. But, be sure, I will ask my relatives and look for more information. #Tunka
You can notice that I have marked the Altan Mundarga in the photo. Some geographic information: The height is 3156 meters. It is the second peak after The Mon Uula(Munku Sardyk). (That's all that I have found on the Internet).
Of course the amazing beauty of #Nature goes without saying). Now you are looking at photos that were taken in April this year. There are no green colors but in summer it looks much better! I will post some photos of the summer mountains when summer will come. Oh, and I'm sure that you have seen the snowy mountains in summer on the cover of the address. It happens every summer and snowfalls aren't something supernatural at these places. A climate in the mountains is very hard when snowfalls happen people who are in the mountains at this moment are in a zone of risk because the cold winds, snow and a sub-zero temperature can kill people who don't have warm clothes and can't make a fire.
We believe that the Altan Mundarga is a homeplace of our mountain Gods. We are really venerating them. When people are in the mountains they are not allowed to say something bad about Gods or spirits of these places because God's punishment is coming very soon. So, we never say that we are stronger than the mountains, we never say that it is easy to climb the peaks. And we never conquer the mountains because people are just small creatures which don't have a power. Also we have special rites of worship. There are different ways of worship or paying respect. The first one is "press "F" to pay respect", just kidding). To be serious, we go to people who can do these rites, we call them just "taabay", it means an old man because all of these people are old. So we buy different kinds of food like milk, a vodka, cookies, candies, etc. And we don't use meat because it is a meat of dead creatures.
The second way - we go to a lama(Buddhist monk) and he does the rite. We also bring different kinds of food. And milk is the most important thing in all our rites. We do nothing without milk.
And some people do this rite by themselves if they can. It is not forbidden, but you should know how to do it because if you make a mistake you will be punished by Gods.
So, now you know a small part of our #Culture!
It seems to me that I have told you everything that I knew! )
Once again very beautiful photos you have shared full of information for us, your readers to learn about. Thank you!
It is interesting to read how the Buryat people see the mountains and that they are sacred. It reminds me so much of Nepal and the mountains there such as Mount Everest. I have a love of mountains and what is happening on Mount Everest makes me very sad. For my last writing class I wrote my final paper about Mount Everest and the problems climbers and the mountain are facing. I compared Mount Everest with Disneyland.
We really should take care of these beautiful places. How are the mountains there being treated? How do you feel about people climbing them? Are they treating the mountain well? Mount Everest has become such a dumping ground. If we want to see these beautiful places we should take care of them. I don't understand people leaving behind all their garbage and being disrespectful to nature. Or even disrespectful to other cultures. The Sherpas revere Mount Everest but they have almost been forced to defile it for others who would climb it and abuse it.
Unfortunately, native people almost forgot how we should treat with the environment. They leave their rubbish in the forests and mountains. That's really sad. I really want to protect and save our nature but other people don't understand the importance of clean nature. They don't understand that their children will live in this environment and think that their parents were stupid.
Tourists are the biggest problem. They bring a lot of rubbish and leave it in the mountains. Now there are a lot of garbage and some kind people take away this garbage. Me and my parents work with volunteers, we help them with transport. One of our friends, Andrew Suknev, is a leader of the volunteer organisation. mr.Zverev knows him well.
And I'm against of garbage in nature
We have a myth that when people will be impudent to our nature and Gods enough, our Gods will punish us
The garbage problem should be solved as a state problem. I am sure that we have to create a kind of enterprise where people could cure nature and Ecology should become one of the main subjects at school. Students should be taught to respect nature from the first steps in their schools.