Crossword-Solution: BURYATS
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On the back of an animal
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
LDSORA
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BACK ___!
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Sentences with BURYATS (5)
The shaman of the Buryats of Alarsk prays to "Father Heaven"; in the Altai Mountains the prayer is to "Father Yulgen, thrice exalted, Whom the edge of the moon's axe shuns, Who uses the hoof of the horse.
Those destined to be shamans spend their youth in practices which irritate the nervous system and excite the imagination." Among the Buryats of southern Siberia, it is thought that "the dead ancestors who were shamans choose from their living kinsfolk a boy who is to inherit their power.
Spreading northward and westward from the middle Asiatic plains, this great wave has produced the nomadic tribes of Siberia, like the Chukchi, the Buryats, and the Yukaghir.
Here also the Mongols proper form two main divisions, _Sharra_ in the east and _Kalmúk_ in the west, while a third group, the somewhat mixed _Buryats_, have long been settled in the Siberian provinces of Irkutsk and Trans-Baikalia.
Under the Chinese semi-military administration all except the Buryats, who are Russian subjects, are constituted since the seventeenth century in 41 _Aimaks_ (large tribal groups or principalities with hereditary khans) and 226 _Koshungs_, "Banners," that is, smaller groups whose chiefs are dependent on the khans of their respective Aimaks, who are themselves directly responsible to the imperial government.