Evenki people
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Oct 9, 2026
AmoryUNKNOWN
I just learned about this mythical creature called the keglen, which is a reindeer with swan wings, swan beak, and swan heads at the end of its antlers.
AmoryUNKNOWN
It's from the Evenki shamanic tradition out of Siberia.
AmoryUNKNOWN
Cygnus being the location of where souls come into and leave this realm, and reindeer or swans in these mythologies being the mythical animals that carry the souls of the dead.
AmoryUNKNOWN
I recently learned that Cygnus influences neural pathways, and Cygnus is the celestial bird, the swan, and these antlers of the keglen really remind me of neural pathways and synapse.
Steve StocktonHOST
It was around 7.15 in the morning.
Steve StocktonHOST
The Evenki people, nomadic reindeer herders who scratched out a tough living in the frozen woods, were just starting their day.
Steve StocktonHOST
40 miles away, at a little trading post called Vanavara, a local man named Simon Ivanov was sitting on his porch, probably enjoying the brief warmth of the short Siberian summer.
Steve StocktonHOST
Then suddenly, the sky split in two.
Steve StocktonHOST
Now, Kulik expected to find a massive crater, maybe a mountain of twisted space iron worth a fortune.
Steve StocktonHOST
His journey was a nightmare of frozen bogs, disease-carrying mosquitoes, and brutal terrain.
Steve StocktonHOST
As they got closer to the blast zone, his Evenki guides flat-out refused to go any further.
Steve StocktonHOST
They believed the explosion was the work of Ogdy, a vengeful fire god who had cursed the land and smashed the forest.
Steve StocktonHOST
A massive fireball streaked across the sky over the central Siberian plateau.
Steve StocktonHOST
Witnesses, mostly indigenous Evenki people and Russian settlers in remote outposts, described a light so bright it rivaled the sun.
Steve StocktonHOST
One witness, who was sitting on his porch at a trading post 65 kilometers from the epicenter, recalled, "The sky split in two and fire appeared high and wide over the forest.
Steve StocktonHOST
The heat was so strong I felt as if my shirt was on fire." Seconds later, a massive shockwave knocked the man off his porch and left him unconscious.
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The museum is built as a story told in four voices.
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There are Russian, Buryat, Evenk and Tofalar zones, side by side, like the cultures that lived next to each other around Baikal for centuries.
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In the Buryat zone, you'll find yurts.
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In the Evenk camp, there are chums, their conical tents, and nardi, sleds, along with hunting and shamanic scenes.
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The indigenous peoples of the taiga, the great northern forest, are equal participants in a shared history.
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In nineteen ninety-five, Taltzy received the status of a historical and cultural heritage site of federal significance.
Steve StocktonHOST
A massive fireball streaked across the sky over the central Siberian plateau.
Steve StocktonHOST
Witnesses, mostly indigenous Evenki people and Russian settlers in remote outposts, described a light so bright it rivaled the sun.
Steve StocktonHOST
One witness, who was sitting on his porch at a trading post 65 kilometers from the epicenter, recalled, The sky split in two, and fire appeared high and wide over the forest.
Steve StocktonHOST
The heat was so strong I felt as if my shirt was on fire.
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That's why the summits are flat without a single sharp peak.
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The Evenki people called them mountains without tops.
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It's hard to put it better.
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Water found its way into every crack in the basalt.
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The only way in is by water or by air.
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In eighteen forty-four, the naturalist Alexander von Middendorff was the first to describe this place for science.
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The Dolgan, Nganasan, and Evenki peoples had known it long before that, though even these nomadic hunters never lingered here for long.
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Today, the plateau carries Russia's largest migration of wild reindeer.
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On the morning of June thirtieth, nineteen oh eight, at seven o'clock, something exploded over the Siberian Taiga, the forest home of the Evenki people.
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No warning.
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The sound reached villages a thousand kilometers away.
JenHOST
We are talking about shamanism, animism, ancestor veneration, practices that predate written language, practices that were developed on every inhabited continent more or less independently and then developed further over thousands of years.
JenHOST
Korean Mudong spirit mediums, Kuri spirit workers out of Australia tied to the dreaming, and even Evenki shamans out of Siberia, where the word shaman originates from.
JenHOST
The list goes on, and the point is that none of these practices are the same thing.
JenHOST
They share certain recognizable shapes, such as belief in a living spirit world, the importance of altered states of consciousness, the role of an intermediary who moves between human communities and the unseen, But they are not interchangeable.
Steve StocktonHOST
It was around 7.15 in the morning.
Steve StocktonHOST
The Evenki people, nomadic reindeer herders who scratched out a tough living in the frozen woods, were just starting their day.
Steve StocktonHOST
Forty miles away, at a little trading post called Vanavara, a local man named Simon Ivanov was sitting on his porch, probably enjoying the brief warmth of the short Siberian summer.
Steve StocktonHOST
Then suddenly, the sky split in two.
Steve StocktonHOST
Now, Kulik expected to find a massive crater, maybe a mountain of twisted space iron worth a fortune.
Steve StocktonHOST
His journey was a nightmare of frozen bogs, disease-carrying mosquitoes, and brutal terrain.
Steve StocktonHOST
As they got closer to the blast zone, his Evenki guides flat-out refused to go any further.
Steve StocktonHOST
They believed the explosion was the work of Ogdy, a vengeful fire god who had cursed the land and smashed the forest.
Steve StocktonHOST
A massive fireball streaked across the sky over the central Siberian plateau.
Steve StocktonHOST
Witnesses, mostly indigenous Evenki people and Russian settlers in remote outposts, described a light so bright it rivaled the sun.
Steve StocktonHOST
One witness, who was sitting on his porch at a trading post sixty-five kilometers from the epicenter recalled, "The sky split in two and fire appeared high and wide over the forest.
Steve StocktonHOST
The heat was so strong I felt as if my shirt was on fire." Seconds later, a massive shockwave knocked the man off his porch and left him unconscious.
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