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MUSEUM OF ARCHEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY of Institute of Ethnological studies of R.G. Kuzeev USC RAS. Located in Ufa. Founded in 1976. The first exposition was opened in 1980; current expositions of the museum are located in “Archeology of the Southern Urals”, “World of Bashkir culture”, “Bashkortostan...

MYASKAY is an evil demon in Bashkir mythology. The character appears in bylichkas and magic fairytales. According to Bashkir beliefs, M. is the spirit of a dead sorcerer or a person that was buried without appropriate rites observed. The demon flies at night and looks like a fireball, it casts evil...

“MYTHOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE  BASHKIR  LANGUAGE”,  Bashkir-Russian dictionary of mythological vocabulary (Moscow, 2010). Compiled by F.G. Khisamitdinova. The dictionary includes about 5,000 words and phrases related to Bashkir mythology. The publication is a synthesis of mythological and explanatory...

MYTHS (from Greek mythos – fable, narrative) is the form of integrated mass experience and interpretation of reality by means of sensory-visual images that are considered to be independent phenomena in reality; a main way to understand the world in ancient society. M. has specific features, such as...