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Locals fear curse of Baikal mummy over tomb robbery
Published: 23 January, 2010, 10:20
Edited: 09 May, 2010, 14:18
A mummy known as the Baikal Princess is at the centre of a scandal in Siberia. Local shamans are unhappy that the sacred symbol has been moved to a museum and are worried about invoking the wrath of the gods.
It was telling that the museum director had lot of RussianChristian Orthodox images all over the walls of his office even as he was denying the symbolic significance of this dead princess to local non-Christian ethnic people. There something deeply disturbing about his attitude. The remains of this woman shall be returned to its burial grounds immediately and the museum director should apologize to the local community whose moral values and traditions have been violated but a Christian skelton hunter. Are there no lows in the Russian Federation which protect the cultures and the traditions of non-Christian ethnic groups? If such laws exit, then they must include the prosecution of grave raiders and skeleton thieves. The utter disrespect this clearly Christian museum director speaks of the local traditions shall be enough to show his close mindedness and that he cannot be a museum director with broad liberal mindedness.
Are there any qualifications one needs to satisfy to call himself a "shaman" nowadays? I'm a shaman too and I strongly feel the proper place of the "princess" is in the museum. Wake up sheeple, it's the 21st century!
Let them have the mummy back,jesus wouldn't you want your remains to be kept where your loved ones put you. GIVE IT BACK or suffer the curse,what goes around comes around and if you all have children the shamans are specefic on attacking your children first so just stop it before you all lose everything you ever loved
Perhaps I've missed some thing, what part of the 21st century says grave robbing is ok?,
Biff The museum guy is hypocrite, he reminded me of John McCain’s hypocritical assertion that "in the 21 century nations do not invade nations"! The Museum guy is thick with Christian Orthodox religious symbolism- he does not oppose religious feelings as such, only he does not respect the values of the local non-Christian community. He is a grave raider and the remains of this princess must be returned to its original burial grounds.
Katrina,. It's the comment, wake up sheeple, it's the 21st century, i find hard to swallow. because it IS the 21st century we should be past this rather unpleasant habit of grave robbing. Yes, I think the mummy should go back and the sooner the better.
January 23, 2010, 10:40, Biff wrote > This is unreal in the world of the settled dead. If the mummy isn't rare and of little scientific help, why can't the Shamans have it back?
The translation is wrong. Irkutsk city and Buryat republic are two different places. And it is mostly buryats who want the Princess to return, not Irkutians. It is not really good to rob the tombs. 2 A. Reader Shamans is not chemistry or physics to go into specs or classifications. Shaman is a high-spirited person who can communicate with the spirits of nature, and you can tell a person is a Shaman once you see him/her no matter what century is now. So please stop playing upon words. The director doesn't know what he has in hiis shack. He is an Irkutian, they are christians and forgot the roots. The Princess must be returned to Buryatia!!!
If the mummy isn't rare and of little scientific help, why can't the Shamans have it back?