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MY BASHKIRS, GET READY TO STUDY!
MY BASHKIRS, GET READY TO STUDY! (Bashkorttarym, ukyu kerek!), a poem. Written in the second half of the 19th century. In it, M.Akmulla appeals to the Bashkir people to become educated, both to master various trades and crafts and to attain general higher degree of knowledge. The author compares educated...
MY URALS
MY URALS (Uralym), a poem, madhia. Created by Salavat Yulayev. First time published in Russian by F.D.Nefedov in the essay Salavat, the Bashkir Batyr (1880). The work belongs to the category of lyrical landscape poetry. The author glorifies the beauty of his native Urals, their forests and meadows,...
MYASKAY
MYASKAY is an evil demon in Bashkir mythology. The character appears in bylichkas and magic fairytales. According to Bashkir beliefs, M. is the spirit of a dead sorcerer or a person that was buried without appropriate rites observed. The demon flies at night and looks like a fireball, it casts evil...
MYSOVAYA
MYSOVAYA, Urta‑Tube, an archaeological site (settlement) of the Stone Age. It is included in the Karabalykty Archeological Complex of artifacts and is located 1 km to the W of Selo Tashbulatovo of Abzelilovsky Raion, on a cape on the western shore of Karabalykty Lake. Discovered and researched between...
MYTHOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE BASHKIR LANGUAGE
“MYTHOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE BASHKIR LANGUAGE”, Bashkir-Russian dictionary of mythological vocabulary (Moscow, 2010). Compiled by F.G. Khisamitdinova. The dictionary includes about 5,000 words and phrases related to Bashkir mythology. The publication is a synthesis of mythological and explanatory...
MYTHS
MYTHS (from Greek mythos – fable, narrative) is the form of integrated mass experience and interpretation of reality by means of sensory-visual images that are considered to be independent phenomena in reality; a main way to understand the world in ancient society. M. has specific features, such as...
