Comment
Recorded from
Nikolaj Lixachev
in 1986. Traditionally the Yukaghir believed that after death the human body remains on the earth, while the human soul or shadow
ajbi: goes to the lower world called
ajbid'i: to be with its dead relatives.
Ajbid'i: looks like the real world, but does not have a sun, see Text
40. Elderly Yukaghirs sometimes say that they visit their dead relatives in
ajbid'i: in their dreams.
Translation
(26-1) Dead people live.
(26-2) When they die, their bones remain here, and their souls live together.
(26-3) They live how we live.
(26-4) What we waste, the food, the clothes, they live with that. They eat it and live.
(26-5) The end.
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