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for losses sustained during mutual feuds. When the
wedding is over and the guests are ready to leave, the following
ceremony takes place. Holding a goblet of kumiss in
their hands, the guests are conducted by the host and
hostess three times around the konovjasi—poles standing
outside the yurta, to which horses are tied, and which
are considered sacred. Then the guests mount their horses,
drink part of the kumiss, and pour the rest on the manes
of their steeds.
At the present day the Yakuts are often married in
churches according to the orthodox ritual, and they also
bury their dead in the Russian manner. For the last
hundred years they have been nominally members of the
orthodox Church, and very often make the sign of the
Cross, but in their inmost hearts they have stronger faith in
the power of the Shaman over the evil spirits than in the
dogmas of the Church, of which they know but little.
Indeed, not only the Yakuts, but even the Russians
themselves—the officials, too, among the number—apply to
the Shaman to heal their diseases, drive away evil spirits,
and predict coming events.
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