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Yhyаkh (Sakha: ''Ыhыах'') is the New Year holiday in Sakha Republic. == Celebration == Sakha people celebrate the New Year twice a year – in winter with the rest of citizens of Russia, and in summer – according to the ancient traditions. Yakutia is the largest region of Siberia, almost all of its territory is situated in the Arctic Circle. Sometimes the temperatures reach -60 °C. Summer is very short, it lasts only three months. It begins in the middle of June. And the holiday is celebrated this time of year. The Sakha Yhyakh festival (literally it can be translated as ''abundance'') is related to a cult of a solar deity, with a fertility cult. Before the German invasion of the Soviet Union it was held on 22 June, the longest day of the year. But after 1941, for moral reason (the date of Yhyakh coincided with the beginning of Operation Barbarossa) it began to be spent in the period between 10 and 25 June. Ancient Sakha celebrated the New Year at the Yhyаkh festival. Its traditions include women and children decorating trees and tethering posts with "salama" (nine bunches of horse hair hung on horse-hair ropes). The oldest man, wearing white, opens the holiday. He is accompanied by seven virgin girls and nine virgin boys and starts the ritual by sprinkling kymys on the ground, feeding the fire. He prays to the Ai-ii spirits for the well-being of the people who depend on them and asks the spirits to bless all the people gathered. Afterwards, people sing and dance ''Ohuakhai'' (see below), play national games, eat national dishes, and drink kymys. During the years of stagnation these traditional ceremonies were almost forgotten. Now there is a revival of Sakha culture, including the yhyakh festival. Until 1990, when the first yhyakh was held in Yakutsk, traditionally accurate celebrations were only held in some regions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yhyakh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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