The birch in the calendar culture and traditional beliefs of the Siberian peoples

The article explores the traditional beliefs and practices of peoples from Siberia and Eastern Slavs, associated with a sacred tree - the birch, the veneration of which was closely associated with the culture of the folk calendar, especially in cycles of dying and reviving nature. The cult of the birch is especially characteristic of the Eastern Slavs, but it is also a sacred tree among many Siberian peoples. In this article we report only some facts of the veneration of the birch, which are very clearly shown the world Outlook of different Nations of Eastern Europe and Northern Asia, showing through the birch and through the Curling wreaths of the act of twinning people with nature. Special veneration of the birch trees in Russian Siberia we observe in the period of the week of Trinity Sunday, which is called Semitsky Trinity, and was the seventh week after Easter. Among some peoples of Northern Asia there was taboo. Birch was not his name, and called her a dummy word trudeaumania. In Khakassia the birch is a sacred tree, without her household was forbidden to cut or break. Birch Siberian peoples became the symbol of the “people of the White Tsar ”, namely the Russian people. Most peoples of Northern Asia from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean associated the appearance of birch trees in the Siberian forests with arrival of the Russian people. The essence of the birch in the views of the Siberian peoples is ambivalent: her joy with her death. Thus, in the folk worldview of the Siberian peoples remains a significant body of beliefs of pagan antiquity.