MUSEUM OF MAN IS A LARGE MUSEUM WHERE I GAVE A PRESENTATATION WHEN I WAS IN GRADUATE SCHOOL. MY FAMILY HAS VISITED THIS MUSEUM AND IT PROVIDES A VISUAL FEAST. IT WOULD BE MORE ENJOYABLE WITH MORE INTERPRETATION OF THE VARIETY OF CULTURES. IT IS IN A 1915 CALIFORNIA BUILDING. IT HAS SPECIAL EXHIBITS INCLUDING ANCIENT EGYPT, NATIVE CALIFORNIA, FOOTSTEPS, AND HEART OF EARTH, AND DISCOVER THE MAYA.
THEY HAVE A COLLECTION OF EXTRAORDINARY ARTIFACTS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. EACH ARTIFACT IS THE ARTISTS ATTEMPT TO MAKE THE OBJECT FUNCTIONAL, BEAUTIFUL, SPIRITUAL OR A COMBINATION OF THESE ARTIFACTS. THEY MAY SEEM UNRELALATED BUT RELATED REPRESENT HUMANITY AS A WHOLE.
THEY HAVE AN INUIT COLLECTION OF PREHISTORIC MATERIALS OF IVORY., BONE, STONE, ASND WOOD. THEY HAVE SPEARS FOR HUNTING ANIMALS BASKETS AND A FULL SIZE KAYAK. THEY HAVE A COLLECTION OF MOCASSINS, BAGS, AND BASKETS AND JACKETS.
THERE ARE RARE AND OUTSTANDING OBJECTS THAT INCLUDE CHICAT BASKETS AND BEADWORK. THEY HAVE VARIOUS BASKETS FROM KLAMATH, MODOC, AND CHEMEHUEVI TO POMO.
THEY HAVE AN ETHOGRAPHIC COLLECTION FROM THOSE WHO CARVED A COLLECTION OF IRONWOOD. FROM MAYAN CULTURES. THEY HAVE AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF THIS RICH CULTURE BEFORE HAND WEAVING DISAPPEARS FROM THIS COUNTRY. THIS INCLUDES ITEMS WORN FOR RITUAL COLLECTION FROM 42 VILLAGES.
THE KUMEYAAY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHERN BAJA WERE HERE MANY GENERATIONS AGO BEFORE SPANISH DEVELOPED A SOPHISTICATED WAY TO ADAPT TO DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTS.
THE ANCIENT ART OF THE MAYA LEFT IS EVIDENSE OF THERE COMPLEX CULTURE. USING THE CYCLE OF THE MOON, SUN, AND PLANETS. THE CARVED PETROGLYPHS AND PAINTEDPICTOGRAPHS THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO REGARDING NAMES, DATES, THEIR RULERS, AND CEREMONIAL EVENTS.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
A GREAT TECHNIQUE TO STOP AND HEAL A COLD - SPINAL FLUSH
IF YOU WAKE UP TIRED DO THE SPINAL FLUSH TO BRING YOU FRESH ENERGY IN THE MORNING. THE LYMPH SYSTEM GETS PUMPED WHEVER YOU MOVE YOUR BODY.
THE SPINAL FLUSH ENERGIZES YOU AND SENDS TOXINS TO YOUR REWMOVAL SYSTEM REMOVAL SYSTEM AND CLEARS STAGNANT ENERGY FROM THE BODY. IT CONGESTS NEUROLYMPHATIC POINTS FEEL SORE WHEN YOU MASSAGED. BY MASSAGING THEM THERE IS AWAY TO CLEAR THE ENERGY BY APPLYING PRESSURE TO YOUR BACK. MASSAGE EACH POINT THAT IS SORE AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT MISSING A POINT.
BY DOING THE SPINAL FLUSH IT CREATES ANTIBODIES BY HELPING FIGHT BY HELPING FIGHT CONDITIONS RANGING FROM COLDS TO SORES AND CANCER. IT CREATES ANTIBODIES B Y HELPING FIGHT CONDITIONS RANGING FROM COLDS TO SORES AND CANCER. ITR CREATES ANTIBODIES AND PRODUCES 1/4 OF YOUR WHITE BLOOD CELLS.
WHITE BLOOD CELLS ARE PUMPED BY THE HEART AND LYMPH NODES AND CARRY PROTEINS AND HORMONES TO THE CELLS AND ELIMINATES DEAD TISSUES.
IT CLEANS THE LYMPH NODES AND SYSTEM AND CLEARS YOR HEAD AS WELL. IF YOU SENSE AN INTERCHANGE IS HEADED TOWARD AN ARGUMENT. YOU ALSO CAN RUB YOUR NECK AND BACK YOURSELF TO HEAD OFF A COLD AND RELEASE UNWANTED TENSION THAT HAS BEEN BUILT UP. YOU WILL FEEL A DIFFERENCE IN ENERGY TESTING BEFORE AND AFTER THESE PROCEDURES.
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TODAY'S AFIRMATION
AS MY CHURCH TOLD ME I AM WRITING MY AFFIRMATION. I AFFIRM THAT I WILL BE GETTING TOGETHER WITH MY SON AND MY HUSBAND VERY SOON. AS WE CAN BECOME MORE CLEAR ABOUT WHO WE ARE. WE WILL ALL GROW FROM THIS EXPERIENCE AND KNOW THAT WE CAN REGAIN BALANCE AS A FAMILY IT IS GOOD TO KNOW THAT THE GROUP OF US WILL ALWAYS STAY TOGETHER WITH A CAT OR TWO.
I ALSO AFFIRM THAT WE WILL BE GETTING OUR OLD HOUSE BACK TOGETHER.
I ALSO AFFIRM THAT WE WILL BE GETTING OUR OLD HOUSE BACK TOGETHER.
EGYPT MUSEUM
MY HUSBAND, MY SON, AND I VISITED A MUSEUM DEDICATED TO ANCIENT EGYPT. THEY ALSO HAVE A PLANETARIUM. IT HAS THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF EGYPTION ART IN NORTH AMERICA. IT FEATURES HUMANS AND ANIMAL MUMMIES AND CANOPIES THEY HAVE A GALLERY OF DAILY LIFE THAT WAS FOR A MODEL OF PEOPLE WORK FROM GAMES TO PERSONAL CARE , TRADE, AND EDUCATION AND ARTIFACTS.
IN THERE KINGSHIP AND RELIGIOUS SECTION THEY WIILL HAVE STATUARY AND JEWEL DATING BACK TO THE RULERS AKHAHATEN AND HS SON KING TVT IN THE 18TH CENTURY.
THE SHRINES GALLERY ARE FULL OF REAL REAL REPLICAS OF ART STUARY AND A SMALL REPLICA OF A STEP PYRAMID. THE MIDDLE KINGDOM TOMB IS AN EERIE EXPERIENCE. IT IS A REPLICA BUILT IN 1935 OF AN OFFERING AND BURIAL CHAMBER ADORNED WITH HIEROGLYPHIC WALL PAINTINGS.
CATS WERE FIRST DOMESTICATED IN EGYPT, THEY WERE WILD IN 6000 B.C. YEARS AGO. ALL OF CATS TODAY DESCENDED FROM EGYPTIAN WILD CATS. THE EGYPTIANS CONSIDERED THEM TO BE PROTECTORS OF THE HOUSE. THEY WERE CALLED 'THE MEOW'. THEY WERE MADE FROM BRONZE, WOOD, AND MUMMIES. SOME CATS WERE BURIED WITH THEIR OWNER. TODAY THEY STILL QARE TREATED WELL. SOME OF THEIR STELLA DATE BETWEEN 2195 B.C. AND
2066B.C.
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IN THERE KINGSHIP AND RELIGIOUS SECTION THEY WIILL HAVE STATUARY AND JEWEL DATING BACK TO THE RULERS AKHAHATEN AND HS SON KING TVT IN THE 18TH CENTURY.
THE SHRINES GALLERY ARE FULL OF REAL REAL REPLICAS OF ART STUARY AND A SMALL REPLICA OF A STEP PYRAMID. THE MIDDLE KINGDOM TOMB IS AN EERIE EXPERIENCE. IT IS A REPLICA BUILT IN 1935 OF AN OFFERING AND BURIAL CHAMBER ADORNED WITH HIEROGLYPHIC WALL PAINTINGS.
CATS WERE FIRST DOMESTICATED IN EGYPT, THEY WERE WILD IN 6000 B.C. YEARS AGO. ALL OF CATS TODAY DESCENDED FROM EGYPTIAN WILD CATS. THE EGYPTIANS CONSIDERED THEM TO BE PROTECTORS OF THE HOUSE. THEY WERE CALLED 'THE MEOW'. THEY WERE MADE FROM BRONZE, WOOD, AND MUMMIES. SOME CATS WERE BURIED WITH THEIR OWNER. TODAY THEY STILL QARE TREATED WELL. SOME OF THEIR STELLA DATE BETWEEN 2195 B.C. AND
2066B.C.
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EASTER ISLAND, A NATIONAL PARK IN THE PACIFIC ISLAND
THIS IS A POLYNESIAN ISLAND. IN THE SOUTHEAST PACIFIC ISLAND AT THE POINT OF POLYNESIAN TRIANGLE. THIS ISLAND IS FAMOUS FOR 887 EXTANT MONUMENTAL STATUES. THESE ARE CALLED MOAI MADE BY PAPANUI PEOPLE. MUCH OF THE ISLAND IS RAPA NUI NATIONAL PARK. IT NOW IS AN EXAMPLE OF CULTURAL/ENVIRONMENTAL DANGER OF OVER EXPLOITATION.
IN THE 1860'S EUROPEAN SAILORS AND PERUVIAN SLAVE RAIDING DEVASTATED THE LOCAL PEOPLES BY THEIR DISEASES. IT IS THE MOST THE MOST REMOTE INHABITED ISLAND IN THE WORLD.
THE MOAI ARE MONOLTHIC HUMAN FIGURES CARVED FROM ROCK IN 1250 TO 1500 A.D. MANY ARE STILL AT THE MOAI QUARRY. 100'S WERE TRANSPORTED. ALL HAVE LARGE HEADS AND THEY ARE THE LIVING FACES OF DEIFIED ANCESTORS. THEY STARE INLAND. MANY WERE THROWN DOWN DURING LATER CONFLICTS BETWEEN CLANS. EACH MAOI IS ABOUT 4 METERS HIGH, WITH THE LARGEST AT 10 METERS HIGH! THEY WEIGH ABOUT 70 TONS EACH! TO MOVE THESE IT TOOK THEM A REMARKABLE AMOUNT OF ENERGY. SOME ARE MADE OF TUFF AND OTHERS ARE OF BASALT. THE MAORI WERE INCOMPLETED WHEN INCLUSIONS IN THE ROCK SLOWED THEM DOWN.
POLLEN ANALYSIS AT THESE SITES DETERMINED THE ISLAND WAS FORESTED UNTIL C.E. TREE POLLEN DISAPPEARED.
SOME ORAL HISTORIES RECOUNT HOW VARIOUS PEOPLE USED DIVINE POWER TO COMMAND THE STATUES TO WALK. 1500 PEOPLE MIGHT MOVE THE LARGEST MOAI.
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IN THE 1860'S EUROPEAN SAILORS AND PERUVIAN SLAVE RAIDING DEVASTATED THE LOCAL PEOPLES BY THEIR DISEASES. IT IS THE MOST THE MOST REMOTE INHABITED ISLAND IN THE WORLD.
THE MOAI ARE MONOLTHIC HUMAN FIGURES CARVED FROM ROCK IN 1250 TO 1500 A.D. MANY ARE STILL AT THE MOAI QUARRY. 100'S WERE TRANSPORTED. ALL HAVE LARGE HEADS AND THEY ARE THE LIVING FACES OF DEIFIED ANCESTORS. THEY STARE INLAND. MANY WERE THROWN DOWN DURING LATER CONFLICTS BETWEEN CLANS. EACH MAOI IS ABOUT 4 METERS HIGH, WITH THE LARGEST AT 10 METERS HIGH! THEY WEIGH ABOUT 70 TONS EACH! TO MOVE THESE IT TOOK THEM A REMARKABLE AMOUNT OF ENERGY. SOME ARE MADE OF TUFF AND OTHERS ARE OF BASALT. THE MAORI WERE INCOMPLETED WHEN INCLUSIONS IN THE ROCK SLOWED THEM DOWN.
POLLEN ANALYSIS AT THESE SITES DETERMINED THE ISLAND WAS FORESTED UNTIL C.E. TREE POLLEN DISAPPEARED.
SOME ORAL HISTORIES RECOUNT HOW VARIOUS PEOPLE USED DIVINE POWER TO COMMAND THE STATUES TO WALK. 1500 PEOPLE MIGHT MOVE THE LARGEST MOAI.
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
DRIVING IN SNOW IN THE MIDWEST
WHEN I WAS DRIVING IN OHIO IN THE WINTERS I USED A SMALL RAMBLER AND I WENT TO UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOL. I NEVER LEARNED HOW TO MAINTAIN A CAR. THE RAMBLER FINALLY HAD NO OIL AND THE ENGINE BLEW NEARBY MY HOUSE. OH WELL SINCE THEN I HAVE LEARNED MORE ABOUT CARS. FINALLY I GOT ANOTHER OLD HONDA AND WORKED AS A COUNSELOR IN DAYTON.
WHEN WE WERE ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN SOUTH DAKOTA, WYOMING, AND NORTH DAKOTA WE USED A TINY 2 CYLINDAR HONDA EVEN DURING THE THE WINTER. WE TOOK IT TO DENVER AND MET MY GREAT AUNT THERE. MY MOM TOOK THE TRAIN THERE AND WE DROVE HER BACK TO VISIT SOUTH DAKOTA.
ONE OF OUR TRIPS WE WENT TO MILWAUKEE AND ON OUR WAY BACK WE GOT STUCK IN A BLIZZARD. THIS SMALL CAR WAS JUST ABOUT BURIED IN IN THE SNOW. THE ROADS WERE SO SLICK WE JUST ABOUT SLIDE OFF THE BANCK. WE DID PLENTY OF SURVEYS ON THE PLAINS. WE HAD ANTELOPES AND BISON AND WILD HORSES DURING OUR SUTVEYS WE HAD TO STAY THREE NIGHTS IN A HOTEL IN MINNESOTA. HERE SOME CHRISTIANS SAID THEY WERE PRAYING WITH THE BIBLE. IT FINALLY LET UP. WE HAD NO PETS THANK GOD!
WHEN WE WERE ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN SOUTH DAKOTA, WYOMING, AND NORTH DAKOTA WE USED A TINY 2 CYLINDAR HONDA EVEN DURING THE THE WINTER. WE TOOK IT TO DENVER AND MET MY GREAT AUNT THERE. MY MOM TOOK THE TRAIN THERE AND WE DROVE HER BACK TO VISIT SOUTH DAKOTA.
ONE OF OUR TRIPS WE WENT TO MILWAUKEE AND ON OUR WAY BACK WE GOT STUCK IN A BLIZZARD. THIS SMALL CAR WAS JUST ABOUT BURIED IN IN THE SNOW. THE ROADS WERE SO SLICK WE JUST ABOUT SLIDE OFF THE BANCK. WE DID PLENTY OF SURVEYS ON THE PLAINS. WE HAD ANTELOPES AND BISON AND WILD HORSES DURING OUR SUTVEYS WE HAD TO STAY THREE NIGHTS IN A HOTEL IN MINNESOTA. HERE SOME CHRISTIANS SAID THEY WERE PRAYING WITH THE BIBLE. IT FINALLY LET UP. WE HAD NO PETS THANK GOD!
MONGOLIA CULTURE ARE PROUD PEOPLE
GENGISH BANDED THE MONGOLIAN TRIBES TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1206. THEY FORMED A STATE OF THE STEPPE EMPIRES AND NOMADIC CULTURES CREATED BY THE ANCIENTS WHO HELD A UNIQUE PLACE IN THE WORLD'S HISTORY. THE MONGOL'S ARE PROUD. THE STEPPE EMPIRES AND NOMADIC CULTURE. THE MONGOL'S ARE PROUD OF THEIR HERITAGE.
THIS COUNTRY IS LOCATED IN CENTRAL ASIA. IT IS SOUTH OF RUSSIA AND AND CHINA. IT IS SOUTH OF RUSSIA AND CHINA. IT MEASURES 604,000 SQUARE MILES. THE COUNTRY IS LARGER THAN WESTERN EUROPE. IT HAS A DESERT STEPPE, AND MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN. THE CLIMATE IS EXTREME WITH LOW PRECIPITATION AND LONG, LONG HARSH WINTERS WITH -50 DEGREES CENTIGRADE. THE CAPITAL ULAENBAATAR, MEANS RED HERO. THIS COUNTRY ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST SPARSELY INHABITED COUNTRIES. WITH 2.6 MILLION. OVER 70% ARE UNDER 30.
THEY SPEAK MONGOLIAN. THE ANCIENT MONGOL EMPIRE CONTAINS KOREAN MANCHU, FINNISH, TURKISH, AND HUNGARIAN FOLKS. THEIR FLAG REPRESENTSFIRE, SUN, MOON EARTH AND THE YIN YANG SYMBOL. DATING TO THE 17TH CENTURY. UNTIL THE 12TH CENTURY THE MONGOLS APPEAR IN HISTORICAL RECORDS AS WARRING CLANS. AFTER 20 YEARS OF WARFARE HE UNITED MOST OF THE MONGAL CLANS WAS CALLED GENGIS KHAN OR UNIVERSAL KING IN 1206. HE AND HIS FOLLOWERS EXPANDED THEIR EMPIRE INTO ASIA AND CENTRAL EUROPE. IT LASTED 175 YEARS. THEN INTERNAL CONFLICTS CAUSED ITS POWER TO WANE IN THE 17TH CENTURY THEY WERE RULED BY MANCHUS FOR 2000 YEARS. IN 1911 THE MANCHUS WERE OVERTHROWN. THE MONGUL'S WERE OVERTHROWN THE SPENT 10 YEARS FREEING THEMSELVES FROM THE CHINESE WITH RUSIAN ASSISTANCE. BUY 1921 THEY BECAME FREED. THEIR NATIONAL CULTURE WAS SHAPED BY THE NOADIC LIFE. THE LEGACY OF GHENGIS KAHN'S EMPIRE I A MONGOL NATIONALIST PRIDE TODAY.
78% ARE KHALKHA MONGOLS. SMALL GROUPS ARE CHINESE AND RUSSIAN.
AFTER WWII MANY PEOPLE MIGRATED FROM RURAL TO URBAN AREAS TO WORK. THEY HAD MORE EXTENIVE FARMING AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION. THE URBAN FOLKS LIVED IN NOMADIC GERS, ROUND TENTS MADE OF FOLDING WOOD WALLS AND FELT COVERINGS.
THEY EAT BEEF AND MILK, CHEESE PRODUCTS. THEY COOK VERY SIMPLY. THEY MAKE STEAMED MEAT FILLED DUMPLINGS, MUTTON SOUP AND FRIED PASTAS. THEY FEED THEIR GUESTS WHEN THEY COME OVER. THEY SET OUT A HOSPITALITY BOWL WITH CHEESES AND CANDY. THEY DRINK VODKA DURING CELEBRATIONS. THEY HAVE FIVE TYPES OF ANIMALS - SHEEP, GOATS, CATTLE, HORSES, AND CAMELS. THEY MAKE HIDES AND WOOL. THEIR COUNTRY IS RICHANIMAL FOODER, POTATOES, AND OTHER VEGETABLES. THEY ARE RICH IN COAL, COPPER, GOLD , FLORSPAR, AND MOLYBDEMON AND OIL. HERDERS USED THE ANIMALS AND PAID TAXES FOR USING PATURELAND. UNDER THE SOCIALIST SYTEM THE NUMBER OF ANIMALS THAT COULD BE WAS TIGHTLY RESTRICTIVE AND IN 1980'S AS THE RESTRICTIONS BEGAN TO BE LIFTED.
THE GOVERNMENT OF MONGOLIA GOT AID FROM RUSSIA FOR FUNDING HEALTH CARE AND THE PROGRAMS FOR HEALTH CARE. THE MEN HANDLED MILITARY AFFAIRS AND TRADE MATTERS. MEN HUNTED AND SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS. WOMEN DID HOUSEWORK AND MILKED ANIMALS.MADE DAIRY PRODUCTS, COOKED AND SEWED AND TOOK CARE OF CHILDREN.
THEIR FAMILIES WERE THE MAIN UNIT OF PRODUCTION IN THIS HERDING. SOCIETIES. IN THE KINSHIP SYSTEM MARRIAGES WERE ARRANGED BY PARENTS. THE NORM BECAME FOR CHILDREN TO THEIR OWN PARTNERS.
SEVERAL GENERATIONS OF FAMILIES CUSTOMARILY LIVE TOGETHER IN A NOMADIC CAMP KNOWN AS A KHOT AIL AND SHARE HERDING TASKS. THIS CAMP CONSISTS OF TWO TO SEVEN HOUSEHOLDS FOR HERDING AND HAS NUMEROUS LOCAL RITUALS. A LARGER GROUPS CALLED NEG MITGUNHAM GENERALLY CONSISTS OF FOUR TO TWENTY KHOT AILS AND FREQUENTLY MOVES AND WORKS TOGETHER.
THEIR RELIGION IS LAMAISM OR THE YELLOW SECT OF TIBETAN BUDDISM. UNTIL THE 16TH CENTURY. UNTIL THE 16TH CENTURY SHAMANISM WAS THE DOMINANT RELIGION IN MONGOLIA. LAMAISON WAS INTRODUCED BY THE POPULACE IN 1507. THEY PREFERRED THEIR MALES TO BE BECOME MONKS VS. WARRIORS. MORE THAN 700 MONASTERIESWERE KILLED. BUDISSM IS EXPERIENCING A RESURGENCE .
THE PATTERN OF INHERITANCE WOULD BE THE YOUNGEST SON WHO WOULD INHERIT THEIR PARENT'S ANIMALS. TODAY THERE IS MORE VARIATION IN INHERITANCE.
CHILDREN ARE TREASURED IN MONGOLIAN CULTURE AND LARGE FAMILIES WERE THE NORM. THIS VIEW IS CHANGING BUT MANY FOLKS THINK LARGE FAMILIES ARE THE NORM. THEY PLACE A HIGH VALUE ON THEIR FAMILIES.
TRADITIONALLY WOMEN ENJOY HIGHER SOCIAL STATUS, THEY MADE FELT. TRAINING FOR LAMAS FOCUSED ON THE THEOLOGICAL STUDIES AND LEARNING TO PERFORM CEREMONIES. THE MAJORITY OF LAMAS RETURNED TO THE WORK FORCE AND SOME OF THE TEMPLES WERE PRESERVED AS SHOWCASES OF TRADITIONAL CULTURE.
DURING A DEATH IN THE FAMILY PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WOULD PROVIDE GIFTS OF ANNUALS AND MONEY TO ASSIST THE FAMILY AT THE TIME OF THE FUNERAL. THEY ALL HAD HEALTH CARE IN SOCIALISM AND USED WESTERN MEDICINE, ACCUPUNCTURE AND MASSAGE ARE PRACTICED IN MONGOLIA. THERAPUETIC SPAS ARE BECAME VERY CHALLENGING AS THEIR IS ONGOING ECONOMIC CRISES.
THEIR LIFE EXPECTANCY WAS 67 YEARS ONLY!
THE MONGOLS WERE HIGHLY MOBILE AND MOST ART FORMS BECAME POPULAR INVOLVED EPIC POETRY, MUSIC AND DANCE, ONE POEM IS ABOUT GHENGIS KHAN POWER. THEY PRACTICED PERFORMING ARTS AND HAVE WIDELY PRACTICED IN MONGOLIAN CENTURIES. THEY PLAY FOLK INSTUMENTS LIKE A HORSE HAIR FIDDLE. MEN WERE EXPECTED TO KNOW HOW TO PLAY THE HORSE HAIR FIDDLE. THEY WERE ALSO HAD FLUTES AND GONGS. THEY NOW HAVE ROCK GROUPS.
IN 1961 THE MONGOLIAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCE WAS FOUNDED BY 14 INSTITUTES.
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THIS COUNTRY IS LOCATED IN CENTRAL ASIA. IT IS SOUTH OF RUSSIA AND AND CHINA. IT IS SOUTH OF RUSSIA AND CHINA. IT MEASURES 604,000 SQUARE MILES. THE COUNTRY IS LARGER THAN WESTERN EUROPE. IT HAS A DESERT STEPPE, AND MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN. THE CLIMATE IS EXTREME WITH LOW PRECIPITATION AND LONG, LONG HARSH WINTERS WITH -50 DEGREES CENTIGRADE. THE CAPITAL ULAENBAATAR, MEANS RED HERO. THIS COUNTRY ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST SPARSELY INHABITED COUNTRIES. WITH 2.6 MILLION. OVER 70% ARE UNDER 30.
THEY SPEAK MONGOLIAN. THE ANCIENT MONGOL EMPIRE CONTAINS KOREAN MANCHU, FINNISH, TURKISH, AND HUNGARIAN FOLKS. THEIR FLAG REPRESENTSFIRE, SUN, MOON EARTH AND THE YIN YANG SYMBOL. DATING TO THE 17TH CENTURY. UNTIL THE 12TH CENTURY THE MONGOLS APPEAR IN HISTORICAL RECORDS AS WARRING CLANS. AFTER 20 YEARS OF WARFARE HE UNITED MOST OF THE MONGAL CLANS WAS CALLED GENGIS KHAN OR UNIVERSAL KING IN 1206. HE AND HIS FOLLOWERS EXPANDED THEIR EMPIRE INTO ASIA AND CENTRAL EUROPE. IT LASTED 175 YEARS. THEN INTERNAL CONFLICTS CAUSED ITS POWER TO WANE IN THE 17TH CENTURY THEY WERE RULED BY MANCHUS FOR 2000 YEARS. IN 1911 THE MANCHUS WERE OVERTHROWN. THE MONGUL'S WERE OVERTHROWN THE SPENT 10 YEARS FREEING THEMSELVES FROM THE CHINESE WITH RUSIAN ASSISTANCE. BUY 1921 THEY BECAME FREED. THEIR NATIONAL CULTURE WAS SHAPED BY THE NOADIC LIFE. THE LEGACY OF GHENGIS KAHN'S EMPIRE I A MONGOL NATIONALIST PRIDE TODAY.
78% ARE KHALKHA MONGOLS. SMALL GROUPS ARE CHINESE AND RUSSIAN.
AFTER WWII MANY PEOPLE MIGRATED FROM RURAL TO URBAN AREAS TO WORK. THEY HAD MORE EXTENIVE FARMING AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION. THE URBAN FOLKS LIVED IN NOMADIC GERS, ROUND TENTS MADE OF FOLDING WOOD WALLS AND FELT COVERINGS.
THEY EAT BEEF AND MILK, CHEESE PRODUCTS. THEY COOK VERY SIMPLY. THEY MAKE STEAMED MEAT FILLED DUMPLINGS, MUTTON SOUP AND FRIED PASTAS. THEY FEED THEIR GUESTS WHEN THEY COME OVER. THEY SET OUT A HOSPITALITY BOWL WITH CHEESES AND CANDY. THEY DRINK VODKA DURING CELEBRATIONS. THEY HAVE FIVE TYPES OF ANIMALS - SHEEP, GOATS, CATTLE, HORSES, AND CAMELS. THEY MAKE HIDES AND WOOL. THEIR COUNTRY IS RICHANIMAL FOODER, POTATOES, AND OTHER VEGETABLES. THEY ARE RICH IN COAL, COPPER, GOLD , FLORSPAR, AND MOLYBDEMON AND OIL. HERDERS USED THE ANIMALS AND PAID TAXES FOR USING PATURELAND. UNDER THE SOCIALIST SYTEM THE NUMBER OF ANIMALS THAT COULD BE WAS TIGHTLY RESTRICTIVE AND IN 1980'S AS THE RESTRICTIONS BEGAN TO BE LIFTED.
THE GOVERNMENT OF MONGOLIA GOT AID FROM RUSSIA FOR FUNDING HEALTH CARE AND THE PROGRAMS FOR HEALTH CARE. THE MEN HANDLED MILITARY AFFAIRS AND TRADE MATTERS. MEN HUNTED AND SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS. WOMEN DID HOUSEWORK AND MILKED ANIMALS.MADE DAIRY PRODUCTS, COOKED AND SEWED AND TOOK CARE OF CHILDREN.
THEIR FAMILIES WERE THE MAIN UNIT OF PRODUCTION IN THIS HERDING. SOCIETIES. IN THE KINSHIP SYSTEM MARRIAGES WERE ARRANGED BY PARENTS. THE NORM BECAME FOR CHILDREN TO THEIR OWN PARTNERS.
SEVERAL GENERATIONS OF FAMILIES CUSTOMARILY LIVE TOGETHER IN A NOMADIC CAMP KNOWN AS A KHOT AIL AND SHARE HERDING TASKS. THIS CAMP CONSISTS OF TWO TO SEVEN HOUSEHOLDS FOR HERDING AND HAS NUMEROUS LOCAL RITUALS. A LARGER GROUPS CALLED NEG MITGUNHAM GENERALLY CONSISTS OF FOUR TO TWENTY KHOT AILS AND FREQUENTLY MOVES AND WORKS TOGETHER.
THEIR RELIGION IS LAMAISM OR THE YELLOW SECT OF TIBETAN BUDDISM. UNTIL THE 16TH CENTURY. UNTIL THE 16TH CENTURY SHAMANISM WAS THE DOMINANT RELIGION IN MONGOLIA. LAMAISON WAS INTRODUCED BY THE POPULACE IN 1507. THEY PREFERRED THEIR MALES TO BE BECOME MONKS VS. WARRIORS. MORE THAN 700 MONASTERIESWERE KILLED. BUDISSM IS EXPERIENCING A RESURGENCE .
THE PATTERN OF INHERITANCE WOULD BE THE YOUNGEST SON WHO WOULD INHERIT THEIR PARENT'S ANIMALS. TODAY THERE IS MORE VARIATION IN INHERITANCE.
CHILDREN ARE TREASURED IN MONGOLIAN CULTURE AND LARGE FAMILIES WERE THE NORM. THIS VIEW IS CHANGING BUT MANY FOLKS THINK LARGE FAMILIES ARE THE NORM. THEY PLACE A HIGH VALUE ON THEIR FAMILIES.
TRADITIONALLY WOMEN ENJOY HIGHER SOCIAL STATUS, THEY MADE FELT. TRAINING FOR LAMAS FOCUSED ON THE THEOLOGICAL STUDIES AND LEARNING TO PERFORM CEREMONIES. THE MAJORITY OF LAMAS RETURNED TO THE WORK FORCE AND SOME OF THE TEMPLES WERE PRESERVED AS SHOWCASES OF TRADITIONAL CULTURE.
DURING A DEATH IN THE FAMILY PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WOULD PROVIDE GIFTS OF ANNUALS AND MONEY TO ASSIST THE FAMILY AT THE TIME OF THE FUNERAL. THEY ALL HAD HEALTH CARE IN SOCIALISM AND USED WESTERN MEDICINE, ACCUPUNCTURE AND MASSAGE ARE PRACTICED IN MONGOLIA. THERAPUETIC SPAS ARE BECAME VERY CHALLENGING AS THEIR IS ONGOING ECONOMIC CRISES.
THEIR LIFE EXPECTANCY WAS 67 YEARS ONLY!
THE MONGOLS WERE HIGHLY MOBILE AND MOST ART FORMS BECAME POPULAR INVOLVED EPIC POETRY, MUSIC AND DANCE, ONE POEM IS ABOUT GHENGIS KHAN POWER. THEY PRACTICED PERFORMING ARTS AND HAVE WIDELY PRACTICED IN MONGOLIAN CENTURIES. THEY PLAY FOLK INSTUMENTS LIKE A HORSE HAIR FIDDLE. MEN WERE EXPECTED TO KNOW HOW TO PLAY THE HORSE HAIR FIDDLE. THEY WERE ALSO HAD FLUTES AND GONGS. THEY NOW HAVE ROCK GROUPS.
IN 1961 THE MONGOLIAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCE WAS FOUNDED BY 14 INSTITUTES.
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