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'ovoo' at the top of a hill near Ulan Bator, circling it three times and giving offerings before the sun rises.
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'ovoo' at the top of a hill near Ulan Bator, circling it three times and giving offerings before the sun rises.
Analysis 2010
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'ovoo' at the top of a hill near Ulan Bator, circling it three times and giving offerings before the sun rises.
Analysis 2010
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'ovoo' at the top of a hill near Ulan Bator, circling it three times and giving offerings before the sun rises.
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'ovoo' at the top of a hill near Ulan Bator, circling it three times and giving offerings before the sun rises.
Analysis 2010
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'ovoo' at the top of a hill near Ulan Bator, circling it three times and giving offerings before the sun rises.
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After hours of driving through the steppe and foothillsthere are hardly any roads in Mongoliawe reached a windy mountain pass with a large ovoo, a cairn of sacrificial stones, that marked the beginning of the traditional land of the
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When we laid our customary three stones on the ovoo, we had reason to be grateful indeed.
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The naadam we were invited to was held near Bayankhongor's Lun Ovoo - the most sacred local ovoo, or shamanistic cairn used to worship the sky and mountains that is found in the Mongol countryside.
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The naadam we were invited to was held near Bayankhongor's Lun Ovoo - the most sacred local ovoo, or shamanistic cairn used to worship the sky and mountains that is found in the Mongol countryside.
trivet commented on the word ovoo
An ovoo (Mongolian: овоо, heap) is a type of shamanistic rock cairn found in Mongolia...They serve as both navigational aids in a country with few roads and fewer signs, and religious sites, used in worship of the mountains and the sky as well as in Buddhist ceremonies.
more here and here.
September 25, 2007
reesetee commented on the word ovoo
Neat! Thanks, trivet.
September 25, 2007