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    Tungusic peoples (redirect from Tungus)
    the east by the Pacific Ocean, has its origin from the Tungus people (Evenks). Russian Tungus was likely taken from East Turkic tunguz (literally, 'wild...
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    of all detachments was the Tungus P. Karamzin. On July 14, 1924, Tungus independence was declared at Ayan at the "All-Tungus Congress of the Okhotsk coast...
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    The Tungusic languages /tʊŋˈɡʊsɪk/ (also known as Manchu–Tungus and Tungus) form a language family spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria by Tungusic...
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    cataclysms remains a mystery... to a degree". Skeptoid. Furneaux, Rupert. The Tungus Event: The Great Siberian Catastrophe of 1908, (New York) Nordon Publications...
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  • Eskeri is the Tungus creator god. He retrieved magic mud from the primeval waters and used it to form the Earth. Mike Dixon-Kennedy, 1998, ABC-CLIO publishers...
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    minorities' indigenous religions ■ Mongolian folk religion ■ Northeast China folk religion influenced by Tungus and Manchu shamanism; widespread Shanrendao...
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  • Evenki (/eɪˈvɛŋki/ ay-VEN-kee), formerly known as Tungus, is the largest member of the northern group of Tungusic languages, a group which also includes...
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    been made to create an independent state for the Yakut people, such as the Tungus Republic, while others aimed for higher autonomy within Russia, such as...
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  • "Life-giver"; a Tungus god of souls. Mayin was responsible for giving souls to newborn babies. When this does not happen the baby is soulless. The Tungus believe...
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    shaman feels himself to be "swift, vigilant, watchful, the best animal the Tungus know." Reindeer antlers, in particular, serve simultaneously as weapons...
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    ancient Tungus people had come into contact with the Mongols and Turks who introduced them to horses and horse breeding culture. The Tungus experimented...
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  • omnipotent highest power in the mythology of the Tungusic peoples. For the Tungus the term buga (also buya, boya, boga) refers to the greatest, omnipotent...
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  • refer to Evenks, or Evenki, a people of Russia and China also known as Tungus Evenki languages, languages of Tungusic family Evenki language, a subdivision...
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    The Evenki, also known as the Evenks and formerly as the Tungus, are a Tungusic people of North Asia. In Russia, the Evenki are recognised as one of the...
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  • the Democratic Republic of Congo. The four dialects (Beo, Buru (Boro), Tungu, Hanga) are quite distinct, and may be separate languages. Ngelima at Ethnologue...
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    Shamanism (category Articles with text in Tungus languages)
    Manchu language. The etymology of the word is sometimes connected to the Tungus root sā-, meaning "to know". However, Finnish ethnolinguist Juha Janhunen...
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    Japanese "worö 'tail' + suffix -ti – as well as an obvious Tungus etymology, [Proto-Tungus] *xürgü-či, 'the tailed one'", and notes "this apparently well-traveled...
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  • speakers), Uralic (Samoyedic, Ugric; roughly 100,000 speakers), Manchu-Tungus (ca. 40,000 speakers), Chukotko-Kamchatkan (ca. 25,000 speakers), Eskimo–Aleut...
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    HORDE EMPIRE OF THE GREAT KHAN ILKHANATE GEORGIA DELHI SULTANATE YADAVAS Tungus MYIN- SAING KHMER BEYLIKS MAMLUK SULTANATE GO- RYEO MAJAPAHIT Under its...
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    1881. The one led by engineer George W. Melville was rescued by native Tungus huntsmen. Of the group led by Captain George W. De Long, only two of the...
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    EMPIRE ROMAN EMPIRE HUNS Lombards Franks TOCHARIANS Paleo-Siberians Samoyeds Tungus MEROË The origins of the Huns and their links to other steppe people remain...
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    dóttir Danps konungs, sonar Rígs er fyrstr var konungr kallaðr á danska tungu. Dyggvi's mother was Drott, the daughter of king Danp, Ríg's son, who was...
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    SHEEP TURKS VIJAYA- NAGARA SHAYBA- NIDS TIMURID EMPIRE DELHI SULTANATE Tungus AVA LAN XANG OTTOMAN EMPIRE MAMLUK SULTANATE JO- SEON MALACCA Location of...
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    Yeniseysk. Vikhor Savin (1624) and Maksim Perfilyev (1626 and 1627–28) explored Tungus country on the lower Angara. To the west, Krasnoyarsk on the upper Yenisei...
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    Gagauz Kazakh Khakas Kyrgyz Nogai Tatar Turkish Turkmen Uyghur Uzbek Yakut Tungus—Manchu Even Evenki Manchu Udege other European Abkhaz Basque Dargwa Georgian...
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    International Conference on Manchu-Tungus Studies, Bonn, August 28-September 1, 2000: Trends in Manchu and Tungus studies. Bonn: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag...
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    seeds are used by the Tungus in Siberia. They are likely to be very narcotic (Welter S. 427)). As is the case with his note on Tungus Physochlaina beer,...
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    GOLDEN HORDE EMPIRE OF THE GREAT KHAN ILKHANATE DELHI SULTANATE YADAVAS Tungus MYIN- SAING KHMER BEYLIKS BYZANTIUM MUSCOVY FRANCE ENGLAND SPAIN MARINIDS...
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    Buryats also assimilated other groups, including some Oirats, the Khalkha, Tungus (Evenks) and others. The Khori-Barga had migrated out of the Barguzin eastward...
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    and petrographical composition. The Siberian traps are underlain by the Tungus Syneclise, a large sedimentary basin containing thick sequences of Early-Mid...
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