Mammoths are not extinct! They still live in Siberia, hiding under the ground and water. They were seen by many eyewitnesses, and in the press there are often notes about them.
Where do modern mammoths live?
According to the existing legend, the famous conqueror of the Siberian land Ermak with his warriors met elephants in the dense forests of impressive size as early as 1581. They were covered with thick and very long hair. Local guides explained that the unusual "elephant", i.e. the mammoth is inviolable, since it is a meat reserve, if animals used for food disappear in the taiga.
Legends of mammoths
From the Barents Sea to Siberia, there are still beliefs about shaggy colossus with the character of underground inhabitants.
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Eskimo beliefs
This is a mammoth, which the Eskimos living on the Asian coast of the strait call “Kilu Kruk”, which means “the whale whose name is Kilu”. There is a legend that says about a whale who quarreled with a sea monster named Aglu, who washed him ashore. Since the whale is extremely heavy, it sank deep into the ground, forever settling in the permafrost, where, thanks to the most powerful tusks, it gets its own food and makes tunnels.
Who do the Chukchi mammoth consider?
The Chukchi consider the mammoth to be the bearer of evil. They are convinced that he also moves along underground narrow corridors. They are sure that, upon encountering mammoth tusks sticking out of the ground, they must be dug up immediately in order to deprive the sorcerer of the power. So he can be forced to return underground again. There is a known case. When the Chukchi noticed the fangs of a mammoth peeking out of the ground and, as the ancestors' covenant required, began to dig them up. It turned out that they had unearthed a living mammoth, after killing which the whole tribe ate fresh meat throughout the winter.
Who are the Holkhuts?
Mention is made of mammoths and Yukaghir beliefs living in the Arctic Circle. They call it "holkhut". Local shamans claim that the spirit of the mammoth, like other animals, is the guardian of souls. They also convince that the spirit of the mammoth that has taken over a person makes him stronger than other cult servants.
Legends among the Yakuts
People living on the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk also have their own legends. Yakuts and Koryaks tell about the "mammoth" - a giant rat that lives underground, which does not like light. If she goes out into daylight, immediately thunder begins to rumble and lightning flashes. They are also guilty of earthquakes shaking the area. The ambassador from Austria, who visited Siberia in the sixteenth century, later wrote "Notes on Muscovy", which tells about Siberian inhabitants - a variety of birds and various animals, including a mysterious beast called Ves. Little is known about him, as well as the commentators of this work.
A message to the Chinese emperor Toulishen, the envoy of China, who came to Russia through Siberia in 1714, reported about mammoths to his emperor. He described an unknown beast that lives in a cold region of Russia and walks around the dungeon all the time, because he dies as soon as he sees the sun. He called the unprecedented animal "mammoth", which in Chinese sounds "hishu". Of course, this again means the Siberian mammoth, which two videos offer to get acquainted with. In fact, many believe that the first video was of a typical bear hunting fish. And the second is completely borrowed from a computer game.
Echo of legends of Siberia
It sounds in a work called "The Mirror of the Manchu Language", written in the eighteenth century. It describes a rat that lives underground, called "fengshu", which means "ice rat." A large animal, comparable to an elephant, only its habitat is underground. If the sun's rays touch him, the animal, weighing almost ten thousand pounds, instantly dies. The ice rat only feels comfortable in the permafrost. Long hair is located on it in several steps. It is used for carpets that are not afraid of moisture. And meat is edible.
The world's first expedition to Siberia
When Peter I learned that huge reddish-brown animals live in the Siberian tundra, he ordered to collect evidence of this and equipped a scientific expedition for mammoths under the leadership of the German naturalist Dr. Messerschmidt. He entrusted him with the development of the endless Siberian expanses, as well as the search for an amazing earth-moving animal, now the well-known mammoth.
How do mammoths bury their relatives?
The ritual is very similar to how it happens in humans. The Mari saw the process of burying mammoths: they pluck the hair from a deceased relative, dig the earth with tusks, trying to get him to be in the ground. They throw soil over the top of the grave, then tamp the mound. Obda does not leave any traces due to the long hair growing on the feet. Long hair also covers the mammoth's poorly developed tail. This was told back in 1908 in Gorodtsov's publications in the West Siberian Legend of Mammoths. A local historian from Tobolsk writes based on the stories of a hunter living in the village of Zabolotye, located near Tobolsk, about mammoths living in the underground today, but their number is limited in comparison with former times. Their appearance and body structure are very similar to that of moose and bulls, but much larger than the latter in size. Even the largest of the moose is five times, or maybe more times smaller than a mammoth, whose head is crowned with two powerful horns.
Eyewitness accounts
This is far from the only evidence of the existence of mammoths. When, in 1920, hunters who went fishing to the Tasa and Chistaya rivers, which flow between the Yenisei and the beautiful Ob, found animal footprints of unprecedented sizes on the forest edge. Their length was not less than 70 centimeters, and their width was about 50. Their shape resembled an oval, and the distance between the front pair of legs and the back was 4 meters. Large dung heaps were found nearby, also testifying to the size of the mysterious beast. Intrigued, they followed the trail and noticed twigs that someone broke off at a height of three meters. The chase, which lasted for several days, ended with a long-awaited meeting. The hunted beast turned out to be a mammoth. The hunters did not dare to come close, so they watched him from a distance of about 100 m. The tusks,curved upward, the color of which was white; brown long hair. And in 1930, another interesting meeting took place, which we learned about thanks to Nikolai Avdeev, a Chelyabinsk biologist. He talked to an Evenk who was hunting and who heard the sounds of a mammoth as a teenager. Spending the night in a house on the shores of Lake Syrkovo, it was they who woke up the eyewitness. Sounds reminded of roofing felts noise, roofing felts snoring. The hostess of the house, Nastya Lukina, reassured the teenager, explaining that it was mammoths making noise on the pond, which had not come to him for the first time. They also appear in taiga bogs, but you should not be afraid of them. I also asked many people who saw mammoths covered with thick wool, and a Mari researcher. Albert Moskvin described the Mari mammoths from eyewitnesses. Locals call them Obds, preferring snowstorms, in which they feel great. He said,that mammoths protect their offspring, becoming on vacation around him.
What do mammoths dislike?
Compared to elephants, mammoths have better eyesight. These animals do not like some smells: burning; machine oil; gunpowder. Mammoths also met in 1944 for military pilots, when those American planes were ferried through Siberia. From the air, they could clearly see a herd of unusually humped and large mammoths. They walked in a chain through sufficiently deep snow. Twelve years later, picking mushrooms in the forest, a primary school teacher from a taiga village encountered a group of mammoths. A group of mammoths walked only ten meters from her. In Siberia, in the summer of 1978, a prospector named Belyaev observed a mammoth. He washed gold with an artel on a tributary of the Indigirka. The sun had not yet risen, and the season was in full swing. Suddenly he heard a strong stomp near the parking lot. Everyone woke up and saw something huge. This something went to the riverbreaking the silence with a loud splash of water. With guns in hand, people cautiously made their way to the place where the noise was heard, and froze, seeing the incredible - more than a dozen shaggy and huge mammoths, who appeared from nowhere, quenched their thirst with cold water, standing in shallow water. As if enchanted people watched the fabulous giants for more than thirty minutes. Having drunk their fill, they retired into the thicket, decorously following each other.
Where are the giants hiding?
Besides the assumption that mammoths live underground, there is another thing - they live under water. After all, it is easier for them to find food in river valleys and near lakes than in the coniferous taiga. Maybe all this is fantasy? But then what about the numerous witnesses, describing in detail the meetings with the giants? Is this confirmed by an incident that occurred in the 30s of the twentieth century on Lake Leusha in western Siberia? It happened after the celebration of Trinity, when the youth returned home by boats. Suddenly, a huge carcass emerged from the water 200 meters from them, which rose three meters above the water. Frightened, people stopped rowing, watching what was happening. And the mammoths, rocking on the waves for several minutes, dived into the abyss and disappeared. There is a lot of such evidence. Pilots watched the mammoths plunging into the water,who told about this to a cryptozologist from Russia Maya Bykov.
Elephants are considered their closest relatives - excellent swimmers, as it became known recently. You can meet giants in shallow water, but it happens that they go dozens of kilometers into the sea, where people meet them.
Huge swimmers
For the first time, such a meeting was reported in 1930, when the skeleton of a mammoth nailed to the Alaskan glacier, which has well preserved tusks. They wrote about the corpse of an adult beast in 1944. It was found in Scotland, although it is not considered the birthplace of African or Indian elephants. Therefore, the people who found the elephant were surprised and confused. A team from the trawler "Empula", while unloading fish in the port of Grimsby, discovered in 1971 an African elephant weighing over a ton. Another 8 years later, an incident occurred that left no doubt that elephants are capable of swimming for more than one thousand miles. The photo, taken in July, was published in the New Scientist in August. It captured an elephant of a local breed swimming twenty kilometers off the coast of Sri Lanka. The photograph was taken by Admiral Kidirgam. The legs of a huge animal moved in a measured way,and the head towered over the surface of the water. He showed by his appearance that he liked swimming and was not difficult. At a distance of thirty-two miles from the coast, the elephant was discovered in 1982 by the team of a fishing boat from Aberdeen. This did not surprise scientists now, including the most inveterate skeptics.
Remembering the Soviet press, one can also find reports of them doing long swims. In 1953, the geologist Tverdokhlebov worked in Yakutia. On July 30, on the plateau overlooking the lake Lybynkyr, he saw that something huge was rising above the water surface. The color of the mysterious animal's carcass was dark gray. He is a beast swimming with throws, huge waves diverged in a triangle. The cryptozologist is convinced that he saw a species of waterfowl foot and mouth disease, which strangely survived to our time, which for some unknown reason chose ice lakes, where reptiles are not adapted to physiologically live. Much has been written about the monsters encountered in different parts of the world. But they all have similarities: a small head; long neck; dark body color. If these descriptions can be applied to the ancient plesiosaur of the Amazonian jungle or Africa, which has survived to the present time, then it is completely impossible to explain the appearance of animals in the cold lakes of Siberia. These are mammoths, and it is not the neck that rises above the water, but the trunk raised up.