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Abakumovitch leads an expedition to Sibir (Siberia), 1628, 15.
A birthday in Siberia, 87.
Adaha Zayang, Buriat divinity, creator of cattle, 46.
Alamaldjin and his twin sister, 271.
Alexander of Macedon, visits Yugria, 5.
Altin Shagoy, a myth, 232.
Altyn Khan, sends the first tea to Russia, 15.
Arsá, substance left after distilling tarasun, 92.
Baiandai, an ex-convict post station, 55; description of, 78; soldiers arrive, 79.
Baikal, 1, 3, 4, 15, 16, 17, 18, 44, 69, 71, 100.
Barguzin is founded, 16.
Baronyé Tabin, first spirit in the universe, 105.
Batu, grandson of Jinghis Khan, 1.
Beketoff, sent against the Buriats, 15.
Beriozoff, founds, 13.
Berkut, white-headed eagle, 100.
Bolhovski, first government official sent to Siberia, 11, 12.
British in India, 2; allies of the Mongols, 3.
Budung Yihé Ibi, Buriat divinity, 45.
Buga Noyon, Buriat divinity, 45.
Bugór sent to explore Lena River, 15.
Buhan Khan, mythical character, 97.
Bulugat, mythical character, 98.
Buriats, besiege Verholevsk, 15; conflict with Russians, 16, 17, 22; Buriat horsemen, 31; their houses, 35; their religion, 50; beyond the Baikal, 97; burning of the dead, 101; burial, 102; ghost story, 113.
Burkans, Buriat gods, 43, 45, 49, 107.
Buruldai Bogdu, a mythical character, No. I., 187; No. II., 196.
Cape Chukchi, easternmost point of Asia, 16.
Chabúkoff, envoy to Sibir, 8; enters Sibir as master, 10.
Chukchi, natives of northeastern Siberia, 16.
Chulkoff, leads an army to Sibir, 12; captures the capital, 13.
Collecting myths, 38.
Creation, 121.
Cyprian, first bishop sent to Sibir, 14.
Danilo, of Moscow, an exile, 79.
Dejneff, leads an exploring party; doubles Shelag Point; first man to discover the passage between the Arctic and Pacific Oceans, 16.
Difficulties, of introducing a new religion, 50.
Delquen Sagan Burkan, world white god, Esege Malan, 105.
Ehé Ureng Ibi, Buriat divinity, 46.
Ejin, son of Fiery Heaven, 100.
Elantsin, post station, 67.
Epancha, a Tartar prince, 10.
Esege Malan, a Buriat god, 39, 46, 99; also called Baronye, 105, 122, 124, 127.
Exile, 25, 35, 55, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83, 85.
Fort Balazansk established, 17.
Gaqui Guldief, a Shaman, 113, 114.
Gesir Bogdo, Buriat god, 39, 122; No. I., 127; No. II., 130; No. III., 134.
Glúkhoff, sent to Sibir, 10; goes to Moscow, 12; returns to Sibir, 12. Gods of the Buriats, 118.
Gortchakoff (Peter), founds Pelym, 13.
Grand Moguls, masters of India, 2. Great Britain, in India, 2; conquest of India, 3.
Habaroff, explores the Amoor River, 16.
Hedgehog, a deity, 45.
Hogotskaya, post station, 56, 59, 78.
Homutooka, a post station, 24.
Hotogov Mailgan, Buriat goddess, 46.
House Ongons, 120.
Hulagu, grandson of Jinghis Khan, 1.
Húnkuvai and the horse with a round head, 206.
Irkutsk, established, 17, 18; gymnasium, 52, 77, 86, 91, 111, 113.
Iron Gates, pass in Ural Mountains, 5.
Iron Hero, creation of, 160, 164, 178.
Ivan the Terrible, entitles himself Commander of Sibir, 7; sends Kuchum a message, 8; sends force to capture Yermak, 8, 10, 12, 13.
Ivan Veliki, sends Skryaba to subject Yurgia, 6; adds Yugorski to his titles, 7.
Jerdovski, a post station, 26.
Jinghis Khan, his birthplace, 2; ruler of Russia, 37, 38.
Journey to the Buriats, 18.
Journey to the island of Olkhon, 53.
Kalym, the price paid for a wife, 93.
Kamchatka, added to Russia, 17.
Klamath River, myths, 6.
Koltsó, associate of Yermak, 9; envoy to Moscow, 10; killed, 11.
Kongoroff, rich Buriat, 85; names his gods, 84, 85.
Kosaya Steppe, post station, 67.
Kosostép, post station, 75, 77.
Kublai Khan, grandson of Jinghis Khan, 1.
Kuchum, captures Sibir, 7, 9, 10; killed by Tartars, 13.
Kudá (Where), a village of ex-convicts, 90.
Kurbski, leads troops to Yugria (Sibir or Siberia), 7.
Kutul, a Buriat village, 68, 71, 75.
Lazareff, the Cross-eyed, 33; his home, 36, 51, 53, 75, 77, 78.
Lvoff, founds Surgut on the Ob, 13.
Mahamet Kul, relative of Kuchum, 8; taken to Moscow, 10.
Manshut, a "wise man," 39, 86, 87, 88, 89.
Mansureff, governs Sibir, 12.
Marriage, ceremonies of, 93.
Martyroff, discovers the Yakuts, 14.
Masalski, punishes Kuchum, 13.
Mélûk Shin, mother of Mindiú, 105.
Masalski, crushes Kuchum, 13.
Mikailoff, a pagan Buriat, 20, 21, 25; his home, 27; a visit, 38, 40, 68, 86.
Minga Nudite Mila, mythical character, 111.
Mongols, their origin and rule, 1, 2.
Mother Earth, a Buriat god, 39, 124.
Novgorod counts Yugria as a possession, 6.
Nur, a village on Olkhon, 71.
Obdovski, founded, 13.
Olkhon, island, 15, 51, 68, 69, 73, 74, 100.
Olzoni, post station, 42, 53, 54, 55, 83, 84, 111.
Ongons, household gods, 41, 85, 110.
Ostyáks, an Asiatic tribe, 10.
Ottomans, 3.
Pelym, founded, 13; first place to which exiles were sent, 13, 14.
Perfilyeff, sent to force the Buriats to pay tribute, 15.
Perskin, Curator of Irkutsk museum, 20, 21.
Pisemskì, founds Tomsk, 14.
Pohakoff, founds Irkutsk, 17.
Popoff, editor of "The Eastern Review," 20.
Roboff sent in search of a northern continent, 17.
Rogóvitch, visits Yugria, 5.
Romanoff (Ivan and Vassili), first exiles of rank sent to Siberia, 14.
Romanoff (Fedor), ancestor of the founder of the Romanoff dynasty, 14.
Russia, establishes itself in Siberia, 14; becomes acquainted with Buriats, 14, 17; Russian language, 90.
Russianized Buriats, 57.
Sacred groves, 116.
Sacred trees, 117.
Sam Sosen, village in Olkhon, 71, 72.
Shah Mohammed, slain, 2.
Shaman, 42, 51, 69, 70, 89, 97, 98, 99, 101, 104, 105, 108, 109, 111, 115.
Sharau, mythical hero, 201.
Shauarok, a Buriat village, 33.
Shêlag Point, doubled, 16.
Siberia, extent, 3; lost to Russia, 11, 21.
Sibir, name which preceded the name Siberia, 4, 6, 13; first used as name for whole country, 7, 8, 10; invested by Karacha, 11, 12, 13.
Sojourn on the sacred island of Olkhon, 73.
Starkoff, carries the first tea to Russia, 15.
Stróganoffs, receive grant of land on the Kama, 7, 8, 9; their heirs, 9.
Sukin, extends Moscow rule, 12; founds Tiumen and Tobólsk, 12.
Swans, three daughters of Esege Malan, 98.
Tamarlane, his birthplace, 1; his power, 1, 2.
Tarasun, making of, 92.
Tea, first taken to Russia, 15.
The Iron Hero, 39.
The Twin Boys, a myth, 292.
Tiumen, first Russian city built in Sibir, 13.
Tobólsk, founded, 12; made chief city, 13, 14.
Tohtamish, Khan of the Golden Horde, murdered in Sibir, 6.
Tomsk, founded, 14.
Trahanistoff, founds Berizoff, 13.
Trans-Baikal Buriats, 99.
Tsar Fedor, sends Mansuroff to Siberia, 12; sends first exiles to Sibir, 13.
Tumbinai, great-great-grandfather of Jinghis Khan, 2.
Tyrtoff, founder of Tomsk, 14.
Ugri, same as Yugria, 4.
Uha Soldong, the golden sorrel, a divinity, 46.
Uher, the Hill of Sacrifice, 44, 45, 86.
Uhurut, mythical ancestor of the Vepholensk Buriats, 98.
Uligin Sagan Deda, revered pure earth, a divinity, 45.
Undir Sagan Tengerin, the lofty clear heaven, 45.
University of Siberia, 14.
Urga, capital of Setsen Khan, 16.
Usturdi, post station and town, 22; arrival at, 29, 30, 36, 39, 41, 42, 44, 53, 86, 90, 109, 116.
Varhan Tulai Hubun, a mythical character, 222.
Vassili Mihailoff, a young Buriat, 30, 48, 51, 86.
Vernolensk, its ignorant ispravnik, 90.
Yakuts, territory, 14, 15, 16; traveling to Yakuts country, 25, 40, 53, 59, 79.
Yerente Khan and his son, a myth, 247.
Yermak, his origin, 9; meets the natives of Sibir, 10; sends Koltsó to lay Tsardom of Sibir at the feet of Ivan
the Terrible, 10; his death, 11, 12, 13, 17.
Yugria (Ugri), name for Siberia in the eleventh century, 4; story of the Yugrians, 5; pay tribute to Novgorod, 6, 7, 17.
Zakuska, Russian lunch, 56.
Zayahung Yihé Zayasha, Buriat divinity, 45.
Zayang Sagan Tengeri, Buriat divinity, 45.
Arrow, obeys its owner, 142, 149, 167; cuts trees, 168; scatters enemies, 199; with forty edges, 222; given as a sign, 239, 258; sent to kill a sea monster, 243; sent to cut an enemy into seven pieces and cover the pieces with seven mountains, 210.
Aspen tree, restores life and youth, 141, 146, 149, 155, 158, 234, 240, 262.
Blue Steed of the sky, 131, 145, 161, 167, 169; eight blue steeds, 218.
Boats made of bits of tamarack bark, cross the sea and then become bits of bark again, 132.
Book in which every event of its owner's life is foretold, 156; found in hero's liver, 164, 182, 184; found in midriff, 206; taken from the hero's forehead, 222; book of life falls in at smoke hole, 233, 238, 278.
Boundary, on one side spring on the other autumn, 179.
Boys, hurl stones so far that a man must travel two days to reach the place where they fall, 217; restore mother's hand, eye, and foot, 219; plot against mother, 230; pray for three days and horses are sent from heaven, 230; pray for horses and outfit, and get them, 233; thrown out by parents, 232.
Bull fights for his owner, 248.
Burkans make an Iron Hero and breathe life into him, 160.
Cat renders great assistance to hero, 204.
Child whom only fire from heaven can kill, 227.
Cold so great that horse droppings turn to ice while falling, 168.
Cuckoo, 101; sings and the sea vanishes, 173; assists in restoring life, 240, 275, 276, 277.
Dead men dance, 113.
Dog, gives hero a ring which accomplishes whatever is required of it, 204.
Eagle assists hero in his escape from the underground kingdom, 193; at war with Mogoi Khan, 285.
Eagle's daughters, 242.
Enchantment, 251.
Evil spirits cast from heaven, 134.
Fighting, hero and Mangathai, 146, 149, 165, 172, 175, 181, 209, 237, 248, 281.
Forest so dense that the thinnest snake could not squeeze through, 168.
Fox from heaven killed by an arrow, 239; steals shoulder-blade of hero, 276.
Frogs the size of a bullock, 261.
Gesir Bogdo comes to earth to destroy evil creatures, 127, 135; full grown when three days old, 254; to please his wife turns himself into a horse, gnaws grass and draws a plow, 159.
Golden stairs from earth to heaven, 243.
Hair with magic power, 262.
Hanhai, goes in search of her brother, 282; given task by father-in-law who supposes her to be a man, 284; feats to prove herself a man, 286; brings her brother to life, 289.
Heat so great that horse droppings turn to dust while falling, 168.
Heavenly hero born of woman, 128, 130, 135.
Hedgehog, 123; curses bulls and horses, 228.
Hero, begs Esege Malan for a horse, 188; makes himself and horse of enormous size, 180; turns to stone, 167, 183; turns himself and bride to ravens, 185; goes to Yellow Dog, 244; curses the heavenly blacksmiths, 244; makes himself old, 225; makes a stone mountain behind him, 261; goes to heaven for aid, 261; prays three days to the Heavenly Burkans, 220; drinks spider oil and has no need of food, 247; poisons food by magic, 264; goes to heaven for chains to bind Yellow Dog, 268; brings a multitude of people to life, 247; makes a journey to Yellow Dog's kingdom, 293; turns to a flea, 297.
Heroine, looks for insects in Hero's hair, 223; goes to the sky to get aid of the gods, 240; cannot escape, is always drawn back by magic, 139; turns to stone, 236, 281.
Highest being orders his grandson to come to earth and destroy evil spirits, 130.
Hohodai Mergen (thunder), 151; called upon to kill enemy, 210; sent to kill a hero, 228.
Horse red as blood, 179; turned to flint, 132, 155, 170, 182; pastured with thirteen deer, gives hair to protect them, 272; drops tears for his master, 239.
Impaled on stakes, 180, 260, 217.
Journey so long that a boy of five years of age would be sixty at the end of the journey, 209.
Juniper, used for incense, 42, 162, 289.
Kerchief with power to bring the dead to life, 177.
Lake of poison, 169.
Life in a place aside from the body, in woodcocks, 149, 182; in sky-larks, 211; in a feather, 150; in three birds, 226.
Magic cup, 158.
Mangathais, bad spirits who lived in a world before this, 132, 133, 134, etc.; goes to heaven to get Ashir Bogdo's life, 108; upper jaw reaches the sky, lower touches the earth, 183; cuts slice of flesh from boy's thigh, roasts and eats it, 216, 252, 280.
Mogoi Khan, a sea demon wars with eagle, 243.
Perfect fool, throws hero over three mountain ranges, 224.
Raven (ancient of), changed to harmless bird, 138, 151, 181. Red restoring larch tree, 220, 221.
Scissors which multiply cloth, 177.
Serpent with many lives, 184.
Shalmos, invisible spirits, 130, 131, 137, 183, 223.
Silver stairway to the sky, 158.
Spring from which horse never drank, 164.
Steed, given by Esege Malan, 127; sent in answer to prayer, 139; of terrible speed, 209; from the sky, 215; which can run three times around the world before a cup of milk, placed over a hot fire, boils, 235; red as blood, 249; sinks to the earth to listen, 250; foretells his master's death, 250; gives advice, 267.
Sun and moon fall to the earth, 228.
Tasks difficult of accomplishment given to new son-in-law, 176, 242, 267, 284.
Traveling on the rainbow, 140.
Tree on which all religions are recorded, 155.
Uncle grinds up and eats the bones of his nephew, 216.
Underground kingdom, 190, 195.
Valley filled with serpents, 168.
Water of Life, restores life, 149, 155, 158, 170, 177, 211, 213, 220, 228, 234, 240, 298.
Woman of sixty years of age, gives birth to a child, 135, 186; gives birth to twin boys, 196, 249, 232, 271.
World before this, 206.
Yellow Dog, upper jaw touches the sky, lower jaw grazes the earth, rushes toward the sun, 218; draws people into his mouth, 293, 294.
Yurta (Buriat house); hanging between sky and first heaven, 155.