By Carol Hiltner | President, Altai Mir University
Svetlana Katynova, our Altaian point person for reviving Altai cultural/environmental sustainability, has just returned from El-Oyin, the annual cultural gathering of the Altai people.
Svetlana has organized a team of experts focusing on reconstructing a dyadagan -- a Pazyryk harp that figures in Altaian epic songs. The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg has remnants of one that was excavated from an archeological site. She writes:
After 3 days of work at El-Oyin, we all returned home tired, but very inspired. There were meetings, negotiations with Hermitage staff about the continuation of the project on the harp, specialists in organizing international festivals from St. Petersburg. It was great.
At El-Oyin our harp did not want to play, for several reasons, including sacred ones. I need to think hard and draw up a clear plan of action.
I send a draft version of sand animation [about how the dyadagan came to be]. We will continue to work on it.
The exquisite 9-minute sand animation video is linked below. I hope it inspires you as much as it does me, to see such beauty being created. Thank you for your support that makes it happen.
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