Events

The events that we live through together, and that our ancestors lived through together, can also bind us with a common identity. This can include celebratory rituals such as holidays and weddings. It can include the competitive games we play together to pass time, form community, and often build valued skills. It can also include painful events such as funerals. Lastly, shared memories of ages both golden and dark and of military victory and defeat can also strongly influence a culture and its identity.

The joy and pain we experience through events become part of who we are as individuals and as cultures.

Filter the below articles about celebrations, rites, games, and other events for: Slavic, Turkic, Caucasian, Baltics, or other cultures.

Yhyakh: A Summer New Year in the Coldest Place on Earth

The original Sakha is given for some terms in parentheses. Photographs provided by Mitrofan kyyha Varvara Egorova-Dygyia, Susan Crate, and Kathryn Yegorov-Crate. Yhyakh (ыһыах) is the Sakha people’s annual summer festival during which Sakha make offerings to sky deities known as aiyy (айыы) and make merry before the laborious hay-cutting season. Yhyakh is often rendered […]

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