{"collection":"asia","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/asia/jss/jss30.htm","path":"asia/jss/jss30.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/asia/jss/jss30.htm","text":"A Journey in Southern Siberia, by Jeremiah Curtin, [1909]\nAbakumovitch leads an expedition to Sibir (Siberia), 1628, 15.\nA birthday in Siberia, 87.\nAdaha Zayang, Buriat divinity, creator of cattle, 46.\nAlamaldjin and his twin sister, 271.\nAlexander of Macedon, visits Yugria, 5.\nAltin Shagoy, a myth, 232.\nAltyn Khan, sends the first tea to Russia, 15.\nArs\u00e1, substance left after distilling tarasun, 92.\nBaiandai, an ex-convict post station, 55; description of, 78; soldiers arrive, 79.\nBaikal, 1, 3, 4, 15, 16, 17, 18, 44, 69, 71, 100.\nBarguzin is founded, 16.\nBarony\u00e9 Tabin, first spirit in the universe, 105.\nBatu, grandson of Jinghis Khan, 1.\nBeketoff, sent against the Buriats, 15.\nBeriozoff, founds, 13.\nBerkut, white-headed eagle, 100.\nBolhovski, first government official sent to Siberia, 11, 12.\nBritish in India, 2; allies of the Mongols, 3.\nBudung Yih\u00e9 Ibi, Buriat divinity, 45.\nBuga Noyon, Buriat divinity, 45.\nBug\u00f3r sent to explore Lena River, 15.\nBuhan Khan, mythical character, 97.\nBulugat, mythical character, 98.\nBuriats, besiege Verholevsk, 15; conflict with Russians, 16, 17, 22; Buriat horsemen, 31; their houses, 35; their religion, 50; beyond the Baikal, 97; burning of the dead, 101; burial, 102; ghost story, 113.\nBurkans, Buriat gods, 43, 45, 49, 107.\nBuruldai Bogdu, a mythical character, No. I., 187; No. II., 196.\nCape Chukchi, easternmost point of Asia, 16.\nChab\u00fakoff, envoy to Sibir, 8; enters Sibir as master, 10.\nChukchi, natives of northeastern Siberia, 16.\nChulkoff, leads an army to Sibir, 12; captures the capital, 13.\nCollecting myths, 38.\nCreation, 121.\nCyprian, first bishop sent to Sibir, 14.\nDanilo, of Moscow, an exile, 79.\nDejneff, leads an exploring party; doubles Shelag Point; first man to discover the passage between the Arctic and Pacific Oceans, 16.\nDifficulties, of introducing a new religion, 50.\nDelquen Sagan Burkan, world white god, Esege Malan, 105.\nEh\u00e9 Ureng Ibi, Buriat divinity, 46.\nEjin, son of Fiery Heaven, 100.\nElantsin, post station, 67.\nEpancha, a Tartar prince, 10.\nEsege Malan, a Buriat god, 39, 46, 99; also called Baronye, 105, 122, 124, 127.\nExile, 25, 35, 55, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83, 85.\nFort Balazansk established, 17.\nGaqui Guldief, a Shaman, 113, 114.\nGesir Bogdo, Buriat god, 39, 122; No. I., 127; No. II., 130; No. III., 134.\nGl\u00fakhoff, sent to Sibir, 10; goes to Moscow, 12; returns to Sibir, 12. Gods of the Buriats, 118.\nGortchakoff (Peter), founds Pelym, 13.\nGrand Moguls, masters of India, 2. Great Britain, in India, 2; conquest of India, 3.\nHabaroff, explores the Amoor River, 16.\nHedgehog, a deity, 45.\nHogotskaya, post station, 56, 59, 78.\nHomutooka, a post station, 24.\nHotogov Mailgan, Buriat goddess, 46.\nHouse Ongons, 120.\nHulagu, grandson of Jinghis Khan, 1.\nH\u00fankuvai and the horse with a round head, 206.\nIrkutsk, established, 17, 18; gymnasium, 52, 77, 86, 91, 111, 113.\nIron Gates, pass in Ural Mountains, 5.\nIron Hero, creation of, 160, 164, 178.\nIvan the Terrible, entitles himself Commander of Sibir, 7; sends Kuchum a message, 8; sends force to capture Yermak, 8, 10, 12, 13.\nIvan Veliki, sends Skryaba to subject Yurgia, 6; adds Yugorski to his titles, 7.\nJerdovski, a post station, 26.\nJinghis Khan, his birthplace, 2; ruler of Russia, 37, 38.\nJourney to the Buriats, 18.\nJourney to the island of Olkhon, 53.\nKalym, the price paid for a wife, 93.\nKamchatka, added to Russia, 17.\nKlamath River, myths, 6.\nKolts\u00f3, associate of Yermak, 9; envoy to Moscow, 10; killed, 11.\nKongoroff, rich Buriat, 85; names his gods, 84, 85.\nKosaya Steppe, post station, 67.\nKosost\u00e9p, post station, 75, 77.\nKublai Khan, grandson of Jinghis Khan, 1.\nKuchum, captures Sibir, 7, 9, 10; killed by Tartars, 13.\nKud\u00e1 (Where), a village of ex-convicts, 90.\nKurbski, leads troops to Yugria (Sibir or Siberia), 7.\nKutul, a Buriat village, 68, 71, 75.\nLazareff, the Cross-eyed, 33; his home, 36, 51, 53, 75, 77, 78.\nLvoff, founds Surgut on the Ob, 13.\nMahamet Kul, relative of Kuchum, 8; taken to Moscow, 10.\nManshut, a \"wise man,\" 39, 86, 87, 88, 89.\nMansureff, governs Sibir, 12.\nMarriage, ceremonies of, 93.\nMartyroff, discovers the Yakuts, 14.\nMasalski, punishes Kuchum, 13.\nM\u00e9l\u00fbk Shin, mother of Mindi\u00fa, 105.\nMasalski, crushes Kuchum, 13.\nMikailoff, a pagan Buriat, 20, 21, 25; his home, 27; a visit, 38, 40, 68, 86.\nMinga Nudite Mila, mythical character, 111.\nMongols, their origin and rule, 1, 2.\nMother Earth, a Buriat god, 39, 124.\nNovgorod counts Yugria as a possession, 6.\nNur, a village on Olkhon, 71.\nObdovski, founded, 13.\nOlkhon, island, 15, 51, 68, 69, 73, 74, 100.\nOlzoni, post station, 42, 53, 54, 55, 83, 84, 111.\nOngons, household gods, 41, 85, 110.\nOsty\u00e1ks, an Asiatic tribe, 10.\nOttomans, 3.\nPelym, founded, 13; first place to which exiles were sent, 13, 14.\nPerfilyeff, sent to force the Buriats to pay tribute, 15.\nPerskin, Curator of Irkutsk museum, 20, 21.\nPisemsk\u00ec, founds Tomsk, 14.\nPohakoff, founds Irkutsk, 17.\nPopoff, editor of \"The Eastern Review,\" 20.\nRoboff sent in search of a northern continent, 17.\nRog\u00f3vitch, visits Yugria, 5.\nRomanoff (Ivan and Vassili), first exiles of rank sent to Siberia, 14.\nRomanoff (Fedor), ancestor of the founder of the Romanoff dynasty, 14.\nRussia, establishes itself in Siberia, 14; becomes acquainted with Buriats, 14, 17; Russian language, 90.\nRussianized Buriats, 57.\nSacred groves, 116.\nSacred trees, 117.\nSam Sosen, village in Olkhon, 71, 72.\nShah Mohammed, slain, 2.\nShaman, 42, 51, 69, 70, 89, 97, 98, 99, 101, 104, 105, 108, 109, 111, 115.\nSharau, mythical hero, 201.\nShauarok, a Buriat village, 33.\nSh\u00ealag Point, doubled, 16.\nSiberia, extent, 3; lost to Russia, 11, 21.\nSibir, name which preceded the name Siberia, 4, 6, 13; first used as name for whole country, 7, 8, 10; invested by Karacha, 11, 12, 13.\nSojourn on the sacred island of Olkhon, 73.\nStarkoff, carries the first tea to Russia, 15.\nStr\u00f3ganoffs, receive grant of land on the Kama, 7, 8, 9; their heirs, 9.\nSukin, extends Moscow rule, 12; founds Tiumen and Tob\u00f3lsk, 12.\nSwans, three daughters of Esege Malan, 98.\nTamarlane, his birthplace, 1; his power, 1, 2.\nTarasun, making of, 92.\nTea, first taken to Russia, 15.\nThe Iron Hero, 39.\nThe Twin Boys, a myth, 292.\nTiumen, first Russian city built in Sibir, 13.\nTob\u00f3lsk, founded, 12; made chief city, 13, 14.\nTohtamish, Khan of the Golden Horde, murdered in Sibir, 6.\nTomsk, founded, 14.\nTrahanistoff, founds Berizoff, 13.\nTrans-Baikal Buriats, 99.\nTsar Fedor, sends Mansuroff to Siberia, 12; sends first exiles to Sibir, 13.\nTumbinai, great-great-grandfather of Jinghis Khan, 2.\nTyrtoff, founder of Tomsk, 14.\nUgri, same as Yugria, 4.\nUha Soldong, the golden sorrel, a divinity, 46.\nUher, the Hill of Sacrifice, 44, 45, 86.\nUhurut, mythical ancestor of the Vepholensk Buriats, 98.\nUligin Sagan Deda, revered pure earth, a divinity, 45.\nUndir Sagan Tengerin, the lofty clear heaven, 45.\nUniversity of Siberia, 14.\nUrga, capital of Setsen Khan, 16.\nUsturdi, post station and town, 22; arrival at, 29, 30, 36, 39, 41, 42, 44, 53, 86, 90, 109, 116.\nVarhan Tulai Hubun, a mythical character, 222.\nVassili Mihailoff, a young Buriat, 30, 48, 51, 86.\nVernolensk, its ignorant ispravnik, 90.\nYakuts, territory, 14, 15, 16; traveling to Yakuts country, 25, 40, 53, 59, 79.\nYerente Khan and his son, a myth, 247.\nYermak, his origin, 9; meets the natives of Sibir, 10; sends Kolts\u00f3 to lay Tsardom of Sibir at the feet of Ivan\nthe Terrible, 10; his death, 11, 12, 13, 17.\nYugria (Ugri), name for Siberia in the eleventh century, 4; story of the Yugrians, 5; pay tribute to Novgorod, 6, 7, 17.\nZakuska, Russian lunch, 56.\nZayahung Yih\u00e9 Zayasha, Buriat divinity, 45.\nZayang Sagan Tengeri, Buriat divinity, 45.\nArrow, obeys its owner, 142, 149, 167; cuts trees, 168; scatters enemies, 199; with forty edges, 222; given as a sign, 239, 258; sent to kill a sea monster, 243; sent to cut an enemy into seven pieces and cover the pieces with seven mountains, 210.\nAspen tree, restores life and youth, 141, 146, 149, 155, 158, 234, 240, 262.\nBlue Steed of the sky, 131, 145, 161, 167, 169; eight blue steeds, 218.\nBoats made of bits of tamarack bark, cross the sea and then become bits of bark again, 132.\nBook in which every event of its owner's life is foretold, 156; found in hero's liver, 164, 182, 184; found in midriff, 206; taken from the hero's forehead, 222; book of life falls in at smoke hole, 233, 238, 278.\nBoundary, on one side spring on the other autumn, 179.\nBoys, hurl stones so far that a man must travel two days to reach the place where they fall, 217; restore mother's hand, eye, and foot, 219; plot against mother, 230; pray for three days and horses are sent from heaven, 230; pray for horses and outfit, and get them, 233; thrown out by parents, 232.\nBull fights for his owner, 248.\nBurkans make an Iron Hero and breathe life into him, 160.\nCat renders great assistance to hero, 204.\nChild whom only fire from heaven can kill, 227.\nCold so great that horse droppings turn to ice while falling, 168.\nCuckoo, 101; sings and the sea vanishes, 173; assists in restoring life, 240, 275, 276, 277.\nDead men dance, 113.\nDog, gives hero a ring which accomplishes whatever is required of it, 204.\nEagle assists hero in his escape from the underground kingdom, 193; at war with Mogoi Khan, 285.\nEagle's daughters, 242.\nEnchantment, 251.\nEvil spirits cast from heaven, 134.\nFighting, hero and Mangathai, 146, 149, 165, 172, 175, 181, 209, 237, 248, 281.\nForest so dense that the thinnest snake could not squeeze through, 168.\nFox from heaven killed by an arrow, 239; steals shoulder-blade of hero, 276.\nFrogs the size of a bullock, 261.\nGesir Bogdo comes to earth to destroy evil creatures, 127, 135; full grown when three days old, 254; to please his wife turns himself into a horse, gnaws grass and draws a plow, 159.\nGolden stairs from earth to heaven, 243.\nHair with magic power, 262.\nHanhai, goes in search of her brother, 282; given task by father-in-law who supposes her to be a man, 284; feats to prove herself a man, 286; brings her brother to life, 289.\nHeat so great that horse droppings turn to dust while falling, 168.\nHeavenly hero born of woman, 128, 130, 135.\nHedgehog, 123; curses bulls and horses, 228.\nHero, begs Esege Malan for a horse, 188; makes himself and horse of enormous size, 180; turns to stone, 167, 183; turns himself and bride to ravens, 185; goes to Yellow Dog, 244; curses the heavenly blacksmiths, 244; makes himself old, 225; makes a stone mountain behind him, 261; goes to heaven for aid, 261; prays three days to the Heavenly Burkans, 220; drinks spider oil and has no need of food, 247; poisons food by magic, 264; goes to heaven for chains to bind Yellow Dog, 268; brings a multitude of people to life, 247; makes a journey to Yellow Dog's kingdom, 293; turns to a flea, 297.\nHeroine, looks for insects in Hero's hair, 223; goes to the sky to get aid of the gods, 240; cannot escape, is always drawn back by magic, 139; turns to stone, 236, 281.\nHighest being orders his grandson to come to earth and destroy evil spirits, 130.\nHohodai Mergen (thunder), 151; called upon to kill enemy, 210; sent to kill a hero, 228.\nHorse red as blood, 179; turned to flint, 132, 155, 170, 182; pastured with thirteen deer, gives hair to protect them, 272; drops tears for his master, 239.\nImpaled on stakes, 180, 260, 217.\nJourney so long that a boy of five years of age would be sixty at the end of the journey, 209.\nJuniper, used for incense, 42, 162, 289.\nKerchief with power to bring the dead to life, 177.\nLake of poison, 169.\nLife in a place aside from the body, in woodcocks, 149, 182; in sky-larks, 211; in a feather, 150; in three birds, 226.\nMagic cup, 158.\nMangathais, bad spirits who lived in a world before this, 132, 133, 134, etc.; goes to heaven to get Ashir Bogdo's life, 108; upper jaw reaches the sky, lower touches the earth, 183; cuts slice of flesh from boy's thigh, roasts and eats it, 216, 252, 280.\nMogoi Khan, a sea demon wars with eagle, 243.\nPerfect fool, throws hero over three mountain ranges, 224.\nRaven (ancient of), changed to harmless bird, 138, 151, 181. Red restoring larch tree, 220, 221.\nScissors which multiply cloth, 177.\nSerpent with many lives, 184.\nShalmos, invisible spirits, 130, 131, 137, 183, 223.\nSilver stairway to the sky, 158.\nSpring from which horse never drank, 164.\nSteed, given by Esege Malan, 127; sent in answer to prayer, 139; of terrible speed, 209; from the sky, 215; which can run three times around the world before a cup of milk, placed over a hot fire, boils, 235; red as blood, 249; sinks to the earth to listen, 250; foretells his master's death, 250; gives advice, 267.\nSun and moon fall to the earth, 228.\nTasks difficult of accomplishment given to new son-in-law, 176, 242, 267, 284.\nTraveling on the rainbow, 140.\nTree on which all religions are recorded, 155.\nUncle grinds up and eats the bones of his nephew, 216.\nUnderground kingdom, 190, 195.\nValley filled with serpents, 168.\nWater of Life, restores life, 149, 155, 158, 170, 177, 211, 213, 220, 228, 234, 240, 298.\nWoman of sixty years of age, gives birth to a child, 135, 186; gives birth to twin boys, 196, 249, 232, 271.\nWorld before this, 206.\nYellow Dog, upper jaw touches the sky, lower jaw grazes the earth, rushes toward the sun, 218; draws people into his mouth, 293, 294.\nYurta (Buriat house); hanging between sky and first heaven, 155.","title":"A Journey in Southern Siberia: Indexes","type":"page"}