Fake history of mankind. Bashkir yurt

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

I would like to share my questions about the official history of the nomadic peoples who lived on the territory of present-day Bashkortostan. It will be about the ancestors of the modern Bashkirs, among whom I have the honor to live. I myself do not belong to them, and therefore I can judge the aspects of Bashkir history, culture and life only from the outside. So, national historians argue that the Bashkirs were nomadic pastoralists from ancient times, until they settled and engaged, in addition to cattle breeding, agriculture. When there was a transition to a sedentary lifestyle, it is not written anywhere, apparently, historical science is unknown (or not interesting). But this very science assures us that the yurt has always been the traditional dwelling of these peoples. And this is natural: where else can a nomad live if not in a yurt ?! So to this day live nomadic pastoralists of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and some other states. And we believe history until we begin to delve into the essence of things and understand them from the standpoint of common sense.

And common sense tells us that there are factors that make year-round living in a nomadic yurt problematic, to put it mildly. One of these factors is the long, snowy and cold Bashkir winter. Reaches up to - 40 degrees. Let's consider the points:

1. Heating. The yurt is heated by an open hearth, smoke (and most of the heat) from which comes out through a hole in the roof. It is necessary to make a six-month supply of dry firewood, because drowning with dried horse waste (as, for example, it is done in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan or Tibet) is a sure cold death. This means that you cannot move away from the forest.

2. Nutrition. The only animal available for breeding in nomadic conditions in this climatic zone is the horse. Only she is able to survive in frost in the open air on a meager pasture. Question: where will you look for your herd (to taste fresh meat) in an open field knee-deep in snow? This means that you must create a supply of food for your family for the whole winter. And to do this, you need to dig a reliable glacier next to the yurt for storing mushrooms, berries, fish, dried and frozen meat, otherwise your stocks will become easy prey for rodents, foxes, wolves and crank bears. And it's not easy work to do it every year in a new place. A source of drinking water should be located within walking distance: a stream or a river. Because melted snow is distilled water of little use for food.

3. Construction. In conditions of heavy snowfall, there is a high probability that the vault will be pressed through by the snow mass, because snow does not tend to roll off a rough surface. Inhabitants should brush it off regularly. despite the cold, wind and time of day.

Agree, all this is a little like a free and carefree nomadic life.

By the way: in an open hearth, in a few months all your clothes and belongings will be smoked beyond recognition. In this respect, the yurt differs little from the Chukchi plague. That is why the colorful decoration of the exhibition Bashkir yurts has little to do with life.

From all of the above, the only conclusion can be drawn: the yurt, in the conditions of the Bashkir climate, is a purely summer dwelling, i.e. mobile summer house. And the Bashkir winter is more comfortable and safer to spend in a wooden frame. And the official historical science supports us in this conclusion. We read everywhere: from the nomadic way of life, the Bashkirs went to the semi-nomadic. Those. they spent the winter in stationary warm dwellings that satisfied all the requirements listed above, and in the summer they roamed after their herds, carrying a yurt with them. Yes, that's right, most readers will say. No, everything is not so, I will say. Why? Because all these nomadic and semi-nomadic terms were invented by people who wrote such historical tales in warm offices and never lived in a subsistence economy. There is not and cannot be in the conditions of the Bashkir climate either a nomadic or a semi-nomadic way of life, but only a sedentary one. BASHKIRS HAVE NEVER BEEN NOMADS! Let me explain:

In the summer, you graze your herd, count the offspring, everything is fine. Autumn is coming, you need to return to winter apartments and make supplies for the winter. Question: WHAT TO DO WITH TABOO ?! The answer is unexpected and the only possible one: THROW IN A CLEAN FIELD! No options! Alone with wolves, winter cold and lack of food, horses are not geese and do not fly away to the south. Paradox? But you are a nomad and do not prepare fodder for the winter. Yes, and with all the desire to do this is impossible: you do not have a tractor, or even a scythe … And you do not know metal either. And even if they knew, then we are talking about a herd and not about one horse, and this is a completely incommensurable scale. And where do you look for your herd in the spring, or rather what is left of it? And will there be … After all, the number of wolves, with the help of a bow and arrow, cannot be reduced, and horse-stealing has always been an easy and profitable criminal business. In addition, a horse is not a pet and it can easily do without a person in nature, and will not return to you in the spring. And Bashkiria is not the African Serengeti Park, where, at the end of winter, you will go and catch a new herd.

So what can you do? And you, dear nomad, need to moderate your appetites from a herd to a couple of pigs, a couple of cows, a dozen chickens or geese, a dozen sheep (it’s not clear where to get them - after all, neither domestic pigs, nor cows, nor sheep are found in nature, no chicken or geese?) and one horse. To settle in a society of your own kind (so that it is not so scary) in a wooden blockhouse (if, of course, you have an ax, even a stone one, and the strength for its construction), since life in a dugout is contraindicated for human health, and in a yurt it is cold, damp, smoky, dark and unsafe, on the banks of the river, so that there is where to catch fish, near the forest, so that there is where to go for mushrooms, berries and firewood, and all summer long not to sunbathe in the sun, looking at the grazing herds, but to water the land abundantly - my mother's own sweat, preparing fodder for cattle for the long winter (although I have little idea how this can be done without a metal braid). Plant a vegetable garden for yourself and your family (you can use a wooden shovel). Collect firewood and wild plants. And if, God forbid, you already know the cereals, then you are lost: you are no longer a human being, but a working cattle, and you will end your life in a furrow. Because such physical activity that the cheerful men from historical science prescribed for you in their textbooks, not a single human body is able to withstand.

Imagine, your humble servant lived a similar (with great stretch, of course) life in a remote Trans-Baikal village in the 70s of the last century. In order to feed 5 heads of cattle, 2 pigs and a dozen chickens in winter, my father and I waved our braids all summer. And there was also a vegetable garden, and an endless potato field. Everyday care of all this cattle - I remember how one winter night (-42) they helped give birth to a first-calf by pulling the calf by the front legs…. And the parents also worked at the state farm. And cows must be milked at 5 am, and drinking water must be brought in a two-hundred-liter barrel on a cart (on a sleigh) from the river several kilometers away … And a car of firewood must be brought for the winter 120 kilometers away, cut and chopped. Etc. Continuous physical labor that cannot be postponed until tomorrow. And this in the presence of electricity, technology and civilization - at first even a public bath was working! And the bread was not baked, but bought in a store - it was brought from the regional center 50 kilometers away.

Conclusions:

1. The Bashkirs have never been either nomads or semi-nomads, because such a way of life is impossible in the climatic conditions of Bashkortostan.

2. The yurt is not the national home of the Bashkirs, since there was no need for it. People simply did not have time to go out into the countryside with a yurt and smell flowers - in the summer they were faced with hard labor on the ground.

3. Why do Bashkirs consider themselves nomads? I think that SOMEONE (or SOMETHING) WITH POWER OVER US just put this thought into their (and our) minds.

Anyone who does not agree with my conclusions, let him explain: why did the Bashkirs suddenly change their free, well-fed and carefree nomadic life to a settled life full of hardships, hard labor and poverty? WHAT DID THEY EXCHANGE THEIR TABOONS FOR ?!