Happy New Year!

Evenks observed a national holiday on ancient ceremony
As in ancient times, holiday Bakaldyn, who called the Evenk New Year, brought together representatives of the small people.
Previously, they left their seats and nomadic come at a pre-specified place for a whole month. Because the name of the holiday with Evenk translates as "meeting". During the time they negotiated on the ground kochevki and hunting for the next year, playing weddings, exchanged gifts and deer, water roundelays, competed in force and dexterity. The main actions were considered to be traditional ceremonies, how complex, and so long. For example, in ancient shaman entire eight days, privacy in a special plague, sought a spirit Ikenivke hunting luck. And so - for hunters each mill.
Modern Evenks spend together just three days in the territory of ethnographic complex "Bakaldyn". So now, and ceremonies are conducted in a shorter version. Nevertheless, the holiday is not lost one of its most important tasks - creating new families. For example, with its story about love stories were made by spouses and Vitaly Love Vasilevy, sixteen years ago encountered at the Evenk New Year celebration, when he just revived.

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Now there are approximately 60 thousand Evenks. Of these, half live in Russia. A nationwide most representatives of the people live in Yakutia - about 17 thousand people.