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- | ''(transcription)'' | + | Originally published at the Conservatory of Folk Studies in Bologna, |
+ | Italy in 1931. | ||
+ | Translated and excepted at the Siberian Studies Department of South | ||
+ | Ohio State. | ||
+ | <br><br> | ||
+ | <br> | ||
+ | <center>A PROPAGATION OF ETHNO-SLANDER<br> | ||
+ | How Suslov Sullied the Evenki People's Proud Heritage</center> | ||
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+ | In recent academic writings on the matter of shamanism in the Tunguska | ||
+ | region, noted ethnographer Innokentiy Suslov has made some thoroughly | ||
+ | harrowing claims. He has depicted the tribal feuds between the Shanyagir | ||
+ | and Tungus clans as an almost medieval battle, complete with occult | ||
+ | imagery and epic carnage. He recounts oral histories of shamans taking | ||
+ | revenge on villagers by wiping out their food supply, devouring hundreds of | ||
+ | reindeer at a rime and leaving nothing but pestilence in their wake. | ||
+ | <br><br> | ||
+ | The most disturbing part: these stories date back a mere twenty-three years | ||
+ | to the Tunguska Event of 1908 | ||
+ | <br><br> | ||
+ | Among the many issues we take with these wildly irresponsible tales, we | ||
+ | most vehemently refute Suslov's insistence that shamans in the area took | ||
+ | on demonic forms after the mysterious incident occurred there. In one | ||
+ | essay, Suslov writes: | ||
+ | <small> | ||
+ | ::"The one known as Magankan was told to have grown eight feet in height | ||
+ | ::and developed a voracious appetite for human flesh. His many eyes | ||
+ | ::shone yellow in the night and his dentistry developed into a multi-tier | ||
+ | ::configuration of razor-sharp teeth. Impervious to knives and even | ||
+ | ::bullets, Magankan disappeared into the tundra last winter, never to be | ||
+ | ::seen again." | ||
+ | </small> | ||
+ | The fact that Suslov could give any credence to such nonsense in insulting. | ||
+ | Obviously, he fell victim to a hoax, or perhaps some poorly translated | ||
+ | materials that, when taken out of context, illustrate a much different | ||
+ | folklore than is widely accepted by the academic community. Stereotyping | ||
+ | the simple people of the Evenki ethnicity is abhorrent and wrong, Suslov | ||
+ | should have known better and shown some restraint before publishing his | ||
+ | spurious findings. | ||
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Originally published at the Conservatory of Folk Studies in Bologna, Italy in 1931. Translated and excepted at the Siberian Studies Department of South Ohio State.
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