Dmitriy talks about how to celebrate Zul: First of all, you need to prepare a special boat-shaped candle with wicks equivalent to your age plus one more stick to represent a year that would be added to your age. Kalmyks celebrate their birthday during Zul. Whereas among others groups these boat-shaped candles are called ongts, we call them tselvg. We light these candles when a particular star appears on the sky. Some people light their candles outside so that gods could see them. But my grandmother used to say that it did not really matter where to light one’s candle because gods would see it anyway. We light candles, worship and make offerings to gods.