Tengrianism Religion of Attila and Genghis Khan

The film tells about the origins of Tengriism: ancient nomadic peoples - Scythians, Turks and Mongols - believed in a single god Tengri. Followers of this ancient belief live in Tataria, Altai and the Caspian steppe. The film includes the following filming: 1 part. The train is moving along the bridge over the river; view of the autumn landscape through the carriage window; type of steppe; view of the roadside vegetable market; young men and women who worship the god Tengri - Tengrians, perform a ritual dance; performing the rite of sacrifice; view of Kazan, the Kazanka River, Orthodox churches, the Kazan Kremlin, a mosque on the territory of the Kazan Kremlin, the Kazan hotel on one of the central streets of the city; road traffic on the highway; a view of one of the rural streets, geese on the street, a woman drinking water from a spring; Tatar Tengrians carry stones to the monument to Chengizkhan, stand at the monument; view of an Orthodox Tatar cemetery in one of the villages of Tataria; general view of the ruins of an ancient fortress in Bilyar, where the capital of the Volga Bulgaria was located; Muslim Tatars, who have installed black stones on the sacred mountain, where the mosque used to stand, make a ritual round of these stones; type of ribbons on trees. 2 part. View of one of the landscapes of Tataria: fields, copses; men and women in the sacred grove, where the trees are decorated with ribbons, perform Tengrian rites; women collect water from a holy spring; people sit at the laid tables in the grove, go to the monument to Chengizkhan; general view of the mosque in the Kazan Kremlin; general view of the archaeological excavations in the vicinity of the village of Samosdelka, where the ruins of the ancient city of Itil, founded by the Khazars, were found; general view of excavations in the Astrakhan region, in the village of Selitrennyn, where in ancient times the capital of the Golden Horde was located - the city of Sarai; the caretaker of the museum-reserve E. Pigarev shows the finds made in Selitrennoye, talks about them; General view of the memorial on the Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd; view of one of the Muslim cemeteries in the Nogai steppes; residents of one of the Nogai villages in the courtyard of one of the houses; a man plays a folk instrument; the movement of a freight train along the paths through the steppe; horses by the river bank; Nogai hunter shows skins. the wolves he killed; road traffic on the highway during rain; the rider gallops across the snowy steppe; general view of the Chuisky tract in Altai. Part 3 Landscapes of Altai: mountains, rivers; general view of the Katun river, barrows; butchering ram carcasses, cooking araki, barley flour, cheese by residents of one of the Gornoaltaiskiye villages; Mountain Altai people are present at the performance of one of the sacred rituals; the curator of the museum in the village of Mendunsokkon N.A. Shodoev shows ancient flint - white and black, which belonged in the old days to representatives of the white and black pagan faith; the view of a herd of horses galloping at the foot of the mountains; a shepherd with a flock of sheep in the pasture; general view of one of the central streets of Astrakhan, the Astrakhan Kremlin; a woman-nogay hangs up clothes in the yard; a group of Altai kams climb the sacred mountain, approach the altars, perform the Tengrian rite; general meeting of residents of one of the Gorno-Altai settlements; sings Kama Ajahn (sinhr.); general view of the wedding ceremony in one of the Gorno-Altai villages; sings kaychi-narrator. 4 part. General view of Gorno-Altaysk (filmed from the top point); general view of the abandoned Buddhist datsan; road in the steppe; Mountain Altai nomad cattle breeders set up yurts on the site of one of the camps; residents of one of the Altai mountain settlements perform a rite of remembrance for the dead at a cemetery, perform a sacred Tengrian rite; general view of the Altai mountains, rock paintings, a waterfall, a stone desert, one of the Altai villages in the mountains; mountain Altai - residents of the village on one of their local holidays; view of a Muslim cemetery.

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2006