Siirta, they are Sikhirta (Sirtea), Sihirchi (Sirchi). Location: Yamal Peninsula. Small, stocky people with white eyes, living underground. They differ from the Nenets peoples in their way of life.
And then interesting questions arise!
Yamal Peninsula on the map of Russia.
Siirta not only live underground, but they also hunt for deer, and do not raise domesticated ones, like the Nenets. Whites, like the Slavs, although they seem to have sailed from across the sea, wear "beautiful clothes with metal decorations", they set up their dwellings differently, work gloriously with iron, precious metals, possess great physical strength and magic, and their maidens have incomparable beauty. They also breed herds of mammoths, the so-called “I-chora”, “earthen deer”, “underground”.
Question: "Chud white-eyed"?
Legends about the "white-eyed chud" go north from Finnmark to the Urals. Siirtya - are they? I have not found an answer. Seemingly white-eyed (light-eyed) and light-skinned indicates the Slavs, but why did they come from across the sea, and not come from the south? And why is the chud "white-eyed" and not "white-skinned"? Because only the eyes are visible in warm clothes? I do not know, it was not possible to find out.
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Question: "From Hyperborea"?
Siitra sailed to the Yamal Peninsula from across the sea. At first they lived on the islands, then they moved to the peninsula. And so, according to legends, it turns out that they differed in a different level of technological development. Where did they come from, I wonder? From the Novaya Zemlya archipelago? From the Franz Josef Archipelago? Well, not from Greenland and not from North America, it is far and difficult to sail through the ice of the Arctic Ocean. So where did it come from? Is it not from where the mysterious Hyperborea supposedly existed (exists)?
Question with the answer: "Herds of underground mammoth-deer"?
This is what I, as a lover of various non-standard creatures, can easily answer)) This is a "giant underground mouse" known in narrow cryptozoological circles, which is as tall as an elephant. This mouse lives underground, where it digs passages with its fangs. And this underground mouse with fangs and growth from an elephant is a very real object))
This is explained very simply: in areas with permafrost, the river washes the banks, they collapse and a creature appears on the shore from the ground: a large hairy mouse with huge fangs. Well, it's clear that she lived underground, dug her passages with her fangs, underground and died, but when the river washed away the bank, she became visible, right? Although in fact it is an ordinary mammoth, perfectly preserved in the permafrost))) And since Siirta is an underground people, then they must graze these "underground mice". Everything is logical.
Question: Where did Siirta go?
The legends explain this very simply: they went underground. Remained of them are crafts made of bone and metal, legends, history, ancient settlements, for example, Ortynskoe. Not a single burial place of this culture seems to have been found. So they really went underground? Roerich wrote: “What is behind this world of silence? Traces of a vanished civilization or a mysterious life hidden from the curious eyes of contemporaries?"
N. K. Roerich, Chud underground, 1928-29. Tempera on canvas. 89 x 148 cm.
Official Science
Official science, interestingly, does not deny the existence of this people and refers it to … Now, I will copy it))) "Ust-Poluisk archaeological culture of the Iron Age." This is the Yamal Peninsula, from about 400 BC. and up to 200 years of our era (based on materials from TSB).