Anna Sangadzhi-Goryaeva, Worship of the Land
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Kovaeva, Bair
Babaev, Andrei
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This ritual is usually performed in the spring during Ur Sar, a time when grass appears and livestock breeds. Its purpose is to bring rain and success. This ritual is performed in sacred or holy locations. Chapchachi in the village of Chilgir is one of these places. This place is also known as the burial place of Burkhan bagshi, one of the elders of the Zyungar clan whose body, it is said, was exhumed before World War Two and transported to an unknown location for study. In the past in the exact place of his burial stood a prayer house. People took soil from there for medicinal purposes. This activity continues to this day.
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rituals, Ur Sar, Zyungar, clan, bagshi, Chapchachi
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