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This film, shot in the Ethno-Kudo Museum in Podlesnaya Tavla, is my treasure! I made it so that you too could soak up the beauty, depth and hospitality of the Erzya people. The entire epic of the Erzya people is incredibly poetically laid out in the book Mastorava. Mastorava is Mother Earth, where we all live. And I brought with me a book that looks like the Bible of ancient people and weighs 4 kg and read it to my children. In it, age-old wisdom is laid out in myths and legends in such a beautiful language, in such fabulously interesting turns of speech! A signaling instrument that is a symbol of the unity of the people is the torama. According to mythology, a torama is a copper pipe; in the film, Peter plays a birch bark torama. More than 100 nationalities live in the Republic of Mordovia. I have always been interested in the issue of ethnicity. I remember how my grandfather taught me as a child that there are Erzya and Moksha. These are different peoples. We talk about this with the director of the museum, Petr Vladimirovich Ryabov. But still, the word "Mordvin" has firmly established itself in the lexicon. For example, my mother often called me "stubborn Mordvin" as a child. It turns out that I was not the only one called that ???? Petr talks about Nizhny Novgorod as the ancient capital of the Erzya. About how people moved to Saransk from Nizhny Novgorod in the 17th century. And the entire Nizhny Novgorod land between the Oka and Volga rivers was Erzya land. We talked about the origin of surnames. About the fact that my surname has been preserved as purely Erzya. It means an address to grandfather. The film has an interesting story about how each family has family signs and a family word. Podlesnaya Tavla is a unique Erzya village. Here the folk crafts of wood carving originated, there is a children's art school, many craftsmen live, the founder of the Tavla toy. And you will see the solar Tavla horse 7.5 meters long, 5 meters high. In "Ethno - Kudo" there is a tradition for guests to pass through the Tavla customs, where Vir Ava meets them with a broom. By the way, "ava" is a woman, and also a goddess. According to Erzya mythology, when the supreme god Nishkipaz created the earth, he appointed earthly assistants. All assistants are women, goddesses, ava. The goddess of the forest is Vir ava, the goddess of water is Ved ava. Watch with pleasure! ❤️ Natalia Bodina is a children's music teacher, the author of the "DNA Genius" method for teaching children music from birth, composer, musician, pianist. / nataliya_bodina https://t.me/natalia_bodina / natalia.bodina https://vk.com/nataliya_bodina