Chapter 4 The Yakut Epos (Olonkho) and Its Connections with the South

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter iii
2. Contents xiii
3. Abbreviations xv
4. Illustrations xix
5. Author’s Foreword to the English Edition xxiii
6. Notes and References for Author’s Foreword to the English Edition xxxvii
7. From the [Soviet] Editor xxxix
8. Introduction 1
9. The Stone Age Within the Territory of the Present-Day Yakut A.S.S.R.
10. The Beginnings of Human Life in Yakutia
11. The Preglacial and Glacial Periods in Yakutia 9
12. The Most Ancient Traces of Man in Yakutia 23
13. The Late Paleolithic of Yakutia 49
14. The Neolithic Period
15. Material Culture and Economy of the Population of the Middle Lena 65
16. Art, Beliefs, and World-View of the Neolithic Tribes of the Middle Lena 89
17. Tribes of Northern Yakutia in the Neolithic Period 105
18. The Connections of the Neolithic Tribes of Yakutia with the West and the East 123
19. The Tribes of Yakutia in the Age of Metal
20. The Tribes of the Lena Region in the Bronze Age
21. The Discovery of Bronze 133
22. Bronze Age Art in the Taiga 155
23. Connections between the Bronze Age Culture of the Middle Lena and Cultures of Other Peoples 167
24. The Spread of Iron on the Middle Lena
25. The Appearance of Iron on the Lena 185
26. The First Blacksmiths on the Middle Lena 195
27. Changes in Art and Beliefs and the Birth of Ideographic Writing 207
28. The Ancient Tribes of the Arctic Coast 215
29. The Early History of the Yakut People
30. The Origin of the Yakut People
31. Ideas of the Yakuts about the South 229
32. Steppe Survivals in the Economy and Military Technology of the Yakuts 237
33. Southern Elements in the Clothing of the Yakuts 253
34. The Yakut Epos (Olonkho) and Its Connections with the South 263
35. Linguistic Evidence of Yakut Origins 287
36. Northern Elements in the Culture of the Yakuts 291
37. The Early History of the Yakut Nationality
38. The Culture of the Kurykans—the Southern Ancestors of the Yakuts in the Cis-Baykal 305
39. The Lena Forest Ancestors of the Yakuts 339
40. Legends Relating to the Appearance of Yakut Ancestors on the Middle Lena 353
41. The Beginnings of Human Life in Yakutia
42. The Yakuts on the Middle Lena Before the Arrival of the Russians 381
43. The Art and Religion of the Ancient Yakuts on the Basis of Archaeological Data 391
44. The Social Structure of the Ancient Yakuts 395
45. Historical Events of the 16th and 17th Centuries in Yakutia 417
46. Notes and References 449
47. Bibliography 457
48. Index 493