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How We Celebrate Summer in World's Coldest City - Yhyakh Festival - YouTube - English
How We Celebrate Summer in World's Coldest City - Yhyakh Festival - YouTube - English
How We Celebrate Summer in World's Coldest City - Yhyakh Festival - YouTube - English
Every year, during the summer solstice, Yakut people are celebrating
“Yhyakh” festival
the rebirth of nature after the long freeze which symbolizes another start to the
year.
During the Yhyakh festival, locals are wearing their finest traditional outfits.
Classic women’s
yhyakh attire consists of an elegant dress called khaladaai with embroidered vest,
bag and
without traditional earrings which feature Yakutian ornamental motifs like flowers
and birds.
Most women will also adorn themselves with a headdress called a bastynga
and a necklace-like chest adornment known as a ilin kebiher which also work as a
talisman.
It’s made of pure silver, it’s very expensive and extremely heavy,
are carrying deibiir, which is a horsetail used to swat mosquitos and evil
spirits.
The Dygyn Games attract the strongest, most dexterous, and fastest sportsmen
from
across the whole region. The winner of the Dygyn Games will get $20000.
pulls the other opponent over the board, lifting him from his seated position
wins.
of Khapsagai is to make the opponent touch the ground with any part of his body
above the knee.
115 kg and whoever travels the longest distance while carrying the stone wins.
The Dygyn games are extremely popular in Yakutia and the winners are revered as
national heroes
Activities continue throughout the night. It never becomes completely dark during
summers in Yakutia.
Around two in the morning, when twilight fades and glowing red
streaks begin to spread across the sky, locals are gathering together
for the most important part of the festival - the Greeting of the Sun.
Locals raise their arms, their palms facing the rising sun to soak up solar
energy,
reenergize themselves for the approaching nine months of winter and showing such
appreciation
for things taken for granted in so much of the world: warmth, summer and the sun.