The tragedy of the mysterious Ainu. The White Race are the indigenous inhabitants of the Japanese islands. Ainu

"All human culture, all the achievements of art,
science and technology that we are witnessing today,
- the fruits of the creativity of the Aryans...
He [the Aryan] is the Prometheus of humanity,
from whose bright brow at all times
sparks of genius flew, igniting the fire of knowledge,
illuminating the darkness of gloomy ignorance,
what allowed a person to rise above others
creatures of the Earth."
A.Hitler

I’m moving on to the most difficult topic, in which everything is mixed up, discredited and deliberately confused - the spread of the descendants of settlers from Mars across Eurasia (and beyond).
While preparing this article in the institute, I found about 10 definitions of who the Aryans are, the Aryans, their relationship with the Slavs, etc. Each author has his own view on the question. But no one takes it broadly and deeply into millennia. The most profound thing is the self-name of the historical peoples of Ancient Iran and Ancient India, but this is only the 2nd millennium BC. Moreover, in the legends of the Iranian-Indian Aryans there are indications that they came from the north, i.e. The geography and time period are expanding.
Whenever possible, I will refer to external data and the y-chromosome R1a1, but as observations show, this is only “approximate” data. Over the millennia, the Martians (Aryans) mixed their blood with many peoples on the territory of Eurasia, and the y-chromosome R1a1 (which for some reason is considered a marker of true Aryans) appeared only 4,000 years ago (though I already saw that 10,000 years ago, but that’s still has not yet beaten 40,000 years ago, when the first Cro-Magnon man, also known as a Martian migrant, appeared).
The most faithful remain the legends of peoples and their symbols.
I’ll start with the most “lost” people - the Ainu.

Ainy ( アイヌ Ainu, lit.: “man”, “real person”) - the people, the oldest population of the Japanese islands. The Ainu once also lived on the territory of Russia in the lower reaches of the Amur River, in the south of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. Currently, the Ainu remain mainly only in Japan. According to official figures, their number in Japan is 25,000, but according to unofficial statistics, it can reach up to 200,000 people. In Russia, according to the results of the 2010 census, 109 Ainu were recorded, of which 94 people were in the Kamchatka Territory.

A group of Ainu, photo from 1904.

The origin of the Ainu remains unclear at present. Europeans who encountered the Ainu in the 17th century were amazed by their appearance. Unlike the usual appearance of people of the Mongoloid race with yellow skin, a Mongolian fold of the eyelid, sparse facial hair, the Ainu had unusually thick hair covering their heads, wore huge beards and mustaches (holding them with special chopsticks while eating), their facial features were similar to European ones. Despite living in a temperate climate, in the summer the Ainu wore only loincloths, like the inhabitants of equatorial countries. There are many hypotheses about the origin of the Ainu, which can generally be divided into three groups:

• The Ainu are related to the Indo-Europeans of the Caucasian race - this theory was adhered to by J. Batchelor and S. Murayama.

• The Ainu are related to the Austronesians and came to the Japanese Islands from the south - this theory was put forward by L. Ya. Sternberg and it dominated Soviet ethnography. (This theory has not currently been confirmed, if only because the Ainu culture in Japan is much older than the Austronesian culture in Indonesia).

• The Ainu are related to Paleo-Asian peoples and came to the Japanese Islands from the north/from Siberia—this point of view is held mainly by Japanese anthropologists.

So far, it is known for certain that, according to basic anthropological indicators, the Ainu are very different from the Japanese, Koreans, Nivkhs, Itelmens, Polynesians, Indonesians, aborigines of Australia, the Far East and the Pacific Ocean, and are close only to the people of the Jomon era, who are the direct ancestors of the historical Ainu . In principle, there is no big mistake in equating the people of the Jomon era with the Ainu.

The Ainu appeared on the Japanese Islands about 13 thousand years ago. n. e. and created the Neolithic Jomon culture. It is not known for certain where the Ainu came to the Japanese islands, but it is known that in the Jomon era the Ainu inhabited all the Japanese islands - from Ryukyu to Hokkaido, as well as the southern half of Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands and the southern third of Kamchatka - as evidenced by the results of archaeological excavations and toponymic data , for example: Tsushima— Tuima— “distant”, Fuji — Huqi- "grandmother" - kamui of the hearth, Tsukuba— tu ku pa- “head of two bows” / “two-bow mountain”, Yamatai mdash; I'm mom and- “a place where the sea cuts the land” (It is very possible that the legendary state of Yamatai, which is mentioned in Chinese chronicles, was an ancient Ainu state.) Also, a lot of information about place names of Ainu origin in Honshu can be found in the institute.

Historians have discovered that The Ainu created extraordinary ceramics without a potter's wheel, decorating it with intricate rope patterns.

Here is another link to those who decorated pots with a pattern by wrapping a rope around it, although in this article they are called “laces.”

The Ainu sculpted dogu figurines, similar to a modern man in a spacesuit.

Ethnographers are also grappling with the question of where people wearing swinging (southern) type of clothing came from in these harsh lands. Their national everyday clothing is robe-dresses decorated with traditional ornaments; festive clothing is white, the material is made from nettle fibers.

Here are some beauties in traditional clothes.


And here the beauty is not only in traditional clothes, but also against the background of a traditional ornament (doesn’t it resemble our “sown field”)?

And perhaps the Ainu were also the very first farmers in the Far East, and perhaps in the world. For a reason that is completely unclear today, they left their agriculture and crafts, taking a step back in their development, and turned into simple fishermen and hunters. The legends of the Ainu people testify to countless treasures, castles and fortresses. However, travelers from Europe found representatives of this tribe living in dugouts and huts, where the floor was 30-50 cm below ground level.


No satisfactory explanation has yet been found for why the Jomon people dug their homes into the ground. The assumption that this was done with the aim of increasing the height of housing seems to us too shaky. It was possible to raise the ceiling using other techniques available at that time. (My version, please note they live in half-dugouts).
What were the Jomon dwellings like? All of them, or almost all, have the shape of a circle or rectangle. The arrangement of the pillars supporting the roof indicates that it was conical if the base of the building was a circle, or pyramidal when the base was a quadrangle. During the excavations, no materials were found that could cover the roof, so we can only assume that branches or reeds were used for this purpose. The hearth, as a rule, was located in the house itself (only in the early period it was outside) - near the wall or in the middle. The smoke came out through smoke holes, which were made on two opposite sides of the roof.



Ainu language- also a mystery (it has Latin, Slavic, Anglo-Germanic and even Sanskrit roots). The research of Valery Kosarev is interesting in this regard. He says: "

“I don’t think that 12 thousand years ago Indo-European languages ​​already existed. Taking into account such a venerable historical period, one can only assume that the Proto-Ainu or Proto-Ainu language once stood out from the previous language array. And at the designated time it was a Nostratic community (Nostratic proto-language, Nostratic linguistic unity). If the ancestors of the Ainu separated from some Paleolithic intertribal community, migrated and then found themselves in long-term isolation on the island periphery of Asia, then this well explains the relict nature of the Ainu language, which preserved very archaic linguistic features." Then he compares Ainu words with Indo-European ones.
The structure of the Ainu language is agglutinative, with a predominance of suffixation. In the grammar, it should be noted that the designation of units is optional. or more numbers, which brings the Ainu language closer to some languages ​​of the isolating system. The Ainu language has an original counting system (in “twenties”: 90 is designated as “five twenty to ten”). Genealogical connections of the Ainu language have not been established.
For reference: Agglutinative languages(from lat. agglutinatio- gluing) - languages ​​that have a structure in which the dominant type of inflection is agglutination (“gluing”) of various formants (suffixes or prefixes), and each of them carries only one meaning. Agglutinative languages ​​- Turkic, Finno-Ugric, Mongolian, Tungus-Manchu, Korean, Japanese, Kartvelian, part of the Indian and some African languages. The Sumerian language (the language of the ancient Sumerians) also belonged to agglutinative languages.

According to the official version, the Ainu language was an unwritten language (literate Ainu used Japanese). At the same time, Pilsutsky wrote down the following Ainu symbols:


Here they compare Ainu runes with runes found on the territory of Rus'. Of course, I understand that crosses and curls are also crosses and curls in Africa, but nevertheless, they are very similar!

Conquest. About two thousand years BC. Other ethnic groups begin to arrive on the Japanese islands. First, migrants arrive from Southeast Asia (SEA) and Southern China. Migrants from Southeast Asia mainly speak Austronesian languages. They settle mainly on the southern islands of the Japanese archipelago and begin to practice agriculture, namely rice growing. Since rice is a very productive crop, it allows a fairly large number of people to live in a very small area. Gradually, the number of farmers increases and they begin to put pressure on the natural environment and thus threaten the natural balance, which is so important for the normal existence of the Neolithic Ainu culture. The migration of the Ainu to Sakhalin, the lower Amur, Primorye and the Kuril Islands begins. Then, at the end of the Jomon era and the beginning of the Yayoi era, several ethnic groups from Central Asia arrived on the Japanese islands. They were engaged in cattle breeding and hunting and spoke Altai languages. (These ethnic groups gave rise to the Korean and Japanese ethnic groups.) According to the Japanese anthropologist Oka Masao, the most powerful clan of those Altai migrants who settled on the Japanese islands developed into what later became known as the “Tenno clan.”

When the state of Yamato takes shape, an era of constant war begins between the state of Yamato and the Ainu. (At present, there is every reason to believe that the state of Yamato is a development of the ancient Ainu state of Yamatai.

The confrontation between the state of Yamato and the Ainu lasted almost one and a half thousand years. For a long time (from the eighth to almost the fifteenth century), the border of the Yamato state passed in the area of ​​the modern city of Sendai, and the northern part of the island of Honshu was very poorly developed by the Japanese. Militarily, the Japanese were inferior to the Ainu for a very long time. As a result of these wars, the Japanese even developed a special culture - samuraiism, which has many Ainu elements. And some of the samurai clans, by their origin, are considered Ainu. For example, the Ainu warrior had two long knives. The first was ritual - to perform a suicide ritual, which was later adopted by the Japanese, calling it “harakiri” or “seppuku”. It is also known that the Ainam helmets were replaced by thick long hair, which was tangled. The Japanese were afraid of an open battle with the Ainu and recognized that one Ainu warrior was worth a hundred Japanese. There was a belief that particularly skilled Ainu warriors could create fog in order to hide unnoticed by their enemies. However, the Japanese still managed to conquer and oust the Ainu through cunning and betrayal. But this took 2 thousand years.
Interesting fact: A village is called “kotan” in the Ainu language. Since the villages were inhabited mainly by one family (clan), the family was also called kotan.

The Ainu swords were short, slightly curved with a one-sided sharpening and sword belts made of plant fibers. Dzhangin (Ainu warrior) fought with two swords, not recognizing shields.
Swords were presented to the public only during the Bear Festival.


Those. For the Ainu, the sword had a sacred meaning, it was like a clan belonging. It is not surprising that the famous Japanese swords began to be called katana.

Ainu beliefs. In general, the Ainu can be called animists. They spiritualized almost all natural phenomena, nature as a whole, personified them, endowing each of the fictional supernatural creatures with traits the same as they possessed themselves. The world created by the religious imagination of the Ainu was complex, huge and poetic. This is the world of celestials, mountain dwellers, cultural heroes, numerous masters of the landscape. The Ainu are still very religious. The traditions of animism still dominate among them, and the Ainu pantheon consists mainly of: “kamui” - the spirits of various animals, among which the bear and killer whale occupy a special place. Ioina, culture hero, creator and teacher of the Ainu.

Unlike Japanese mythology, Ainu mythology has one supreme deity. The Supreme God is called Pase Kamuy (that is, “ creator and owner of the sky") or Kotan kara kamuy, Mosiri kara kamui, Kando kara kamui(that is " divine creator of worlds and lands and ruler of the sky"). He is considered the creator of the world and the gods; through the medium of good gods, his assistants, he takes care of people and helps them.

Ordinary deities (yayan kamuy, that is, “near and distant deities”) embody individual elements and elements of the universe; they are equal and independent of each other, although they form a certain functional hierarchy of good and evil deities (see Ainu Pantheon). Good deities are predominantly of heavenly origin.

Evil deities are usually earthly origin. The functions of the latter are clearly defined: they personify the dangers that await a person in the mountains (this is the main habitat of evil deities), and control atmospheric phenomena. Evil deities, unlike good ones, take on a certain visible appearance. Sometimes they attack good gods. For example, there is a myth about how some evil deity wanted to swallow the Sun, but Pase Kamuy saved the sun by sending a crow, which flew into the mouth of the evil god. It was believed that evil deities arose from the hoes with which Pase Kamuy created the world and then abandoned it. The evil deities are headed by the goddess of swamps and bogs Nitatunarabe. Most of the other evil deities are her descendants, and they go by the common name Toyekunra. Evil deities are more numerous than good ones, and myths about them are more widespread.

Japanese are not native to Japan October 19th, 2017

Everyone knows that the Americans are not, just like today. Did you know that the Japanese are not the indigenous population of Japan?

Who then lived in these places before them?

Before them, the Ainu lived here, a mysterious people whose origins still have many mysteries. The Ainu lived next to the Japanese for some time, until the latter managed to push them north.

The fact that the Ainu are the ancient masters of the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands is evidenced by written sources and numerous names of geographical objects, the origin of which is associated with the Ainu language. And even the symbol of Japan - the great Mount Fuji - has in its name the Ainu word “fuji”, which means “deity of the hearth”. According to scientists, the Ainu settled the Japanese islands around 13,000 BC and formed the Neolithic Jomon culture there.

The Ainu did not engage in agriculture; they obtained food by hunting, gathering and fishing. They lived in small settlements, quite distant from each other. Therefore, their habitat was quite extensive: the Japanese islands, Sakhalin, Primorye, the Kuril Islands and the south of Kamchatka. Around the 3rd millennium BC, Mongoloid tribes arrived on the Japanese islands, who later became the ancestors of the Japanese. The new settlers brought with them the rice crop, which allowed them to feed a large population in a relatively small area. Thus began difficult times in the life of the Ainu. They were forced to move to the north, leaving their ancestral lands to the colonialists.

But the Ainu were skilled warriors, fluent with bows and swords, and the Japanese were unable to defeat them for a long time. A very long time, almost 1500 years. The Ainu knew how to wield two swords, and on their right hip they carried two daggers. One of them (cheyki-makiri) served as a knife for committing ritual suicide - hara-kiri. The Japanese were able to defeat the Ainu only after the invention of cannons, by which time they had learned a lot from them in terms of military art. The samurai code of honor, the ability to wield two swords and the mentioned hara-kiri ritual - these seemingly characteristic attributes of Japanese culture were actually borrowed from the Ainu.

Scientists are still arguing about the origin of the Ainu. But the fact that this people is not related to other indigenous peoples of the Far East and Siberia is already a proven fact. A characteristic feature of their appearance is very thick hair and a beard in men, which representatives of the Mongoloid race lack. It has long been believed that they may have common roots with the peoples of Indonesia and the Pacific Aborigines, as they have similar facial features. But genetic studies ruled out this option as well. And the first Russian Cossacks who arrived on the island of Sakhalin even mistook the Ainu for Russians, they were so unlike the Siberian tribes, but rather resembled Europeans. The only group of people from all the analyzed variants with whom they have a genetic relationship were the people of the Jomon era, who presumably were the ancestors of the Ainu. The Ainu language is also very different from the modern linguistic picture of the world, and a suitable place has not yet been found for it. It turns out that during their long isolation the Ainu lost contact with all other peoples of the Earth, and some researchers even distinguish them into a special Ainu race.

Today there are very few Ainu left, about 25,000 people. They live mainly in the north of Japan and are almost completely assimilated by the population of this country.

Ainu in Russia

The Kamchatka Ainu first came into contact with Russian merchants at the end of the 17th century. Relations with the Amur and North Kuril Ainu were established in the 18th century. The Ainu considered the Russians, who were racially different from their Japanese enemies, as friends, and by the middle of the 18th century, more than one and a half thousand Ainu accepted Russian citizenship. Even the Japanese could not distinguish the Ainu from the Russians because of their external similarity (white skin and Australoid facial features, which are similar to Caucasoid ones in a number of ways). When the Japanese first came into contact with the Russians, they called them the Red Ainu (Ainu with blond hair). Only at the beginning of the 19th century did the Japanese realize that the Russians and the Ainu were two different peoples. However, to the Russians the Ainu were "hairy", "swarthy", "dark-eyed" and "dark-haired". The first Russian researchers described the Ainu as looking like Russian peasants with dark skin or more like gypsies.

The Ainu sided with the Russians during the Russo-Japanese Wars of the 19th century. However, after defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, the Russians abandoned them to their fate. Hundreds of Ainu were killed and their families were forcibly transported to Hokkaido by the Japanese. As a result, the Russians failed to recapture the Ainu during World War II. Only a few Ainu representatives decided to stay in Russia after the war. More than 90% went to Japan.

Under the terms of the St. Petersburg Treaty of 1875, the Kuril Islands were ceded to Japan, along with the Ainu living there. 83 Northern Kuril Ainu arrived in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on September 18, 1877, deciding to remain under Russian control. They refused to move to reservations on the Commander Islands, as the Russian government suggested to them. After which, from March 1881, for four months they traveled on foot to the village of Yavino, where they later settled. Later the village of Golygino was founded. Another 9 Ainu arrived from Japan in 1884. The 1897 census indicates 57 people in Golygino (all Ainu) and 39 people in Yavino (33 Ainu and 6 Russians). Both villages were destroyed by the Soviet authorities, and the residents were resettled to Zaporozhye, Ust-Bolsheretsk region. As a result, three ethnic groups assimilated with the Kamchadals.

The Northern Kuril Ainu are currently the largest Ainu subgroup in Russia. The Nakamura family (South Kuril on the paternal side) is the smallest and has only 6 people living in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. There are a few on Sakhalin who identify themselves as Ainu, but many more Ainu do not recognize themselves as such. Most of the 888 Japanese living in Russia (2010 census) are of Ainu origin, although they do not recognize it (pure-blooded Japanese are allowed to enter Japan without a visa). The situation is similar with the Amur Ainu living in Khabarovsk. And it is believed that none of the Kamchatka Ainu are left alive.

In 1979, the USSR deleted the ethnonym “Ainu” from the list of “living” ethnic groups in Russia, thereby declaring that this people had become extinct on the territory of the USSR. Judging by the 2002 census, no one entered the ethnonym “Ainu” in fields 7 or 9.2 of the K-1 census form

There is information that the Ainu have the most direct genetic connections through the male line, oddly enough, with the Tibetans - half of them are carriers of the close haplogroup D1 (the D2 group itself is practically not found outside the Japanese archipelago) and the Miao-Yao peoples in southern China and in Indochina. As for female (Mt-DNA) haplogroups, the Ainu group is dominated by group U, which is also found among other peoples of East Asia, but in small numbers.

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Initially, the Ainu lived on the islands of Japan (then called Ainumoshiri - land of the Ainu), until they were pushed north by the proto-Japanese. But the ancestral lands of the Ainu are on the Japanese islands of Hokkaido and Honshu. The Ainu came to Sakhalin in the 13th-14th centuries, “finishing” their settlement in the beginning. XIX century.

Traces of their appearance were also found in Kamchatka, Primorye and Khabarovsk Territory. Many toponymic names of the Sakhalin region have Ainu names: Sakhalin (from “SAKHAREN MOSIRI” - “wave-shaped land”); the islands of Kunashir, Simushir, Shikotan, Shiashkotan (the endings “shir” and “kotan” mean “plot of land” and “settlement”, respectively). It took the Japanese more than 2 thousand years to occupy the entire archipelago up to and including Hokkaido (then called “Ezo”) (the earliest evidence of skirmishes with the Ainu dates back to 660 BC). Subsequently, almost all of the Ainu degenerated or assimilated with the Japanese and Nivkhs.

Currently, there are only a few reservations on Hokkaido where Ainu families live. The Ainu are perhaps the most mysterious people in the Far East. The first Russian navigators who studied Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands were surprised to note the Caucasoid facial features, thick hair and beards unusual for the Mongoloids. Russian decrees of 1779, 1786 and 1799 indicate that the inhabitants of the southern Kuril Islands - the Ainu - had been Russian subjects since 1768 (in 1779 they were exempt from paying tribute - yasak) to the treasury, and the southern Kuril Islands were considered Russia as its own territory. The fact of the Russian citizenship of the Kuril Ainu and the Russian ownership of the entire Kuril ridge is also confirmed by the Instruction of the Irkutsk Governor A.I. Bril to the chief commander of Kamchatka M.K. Bem in 1775, and the “yasash table” - the chronology of the collection in the 18th century. c Ainu - inhabitants of the Kuril Islands, including the southern ones (including the island of Matmai-Hokkaido), the mentioned tribute-yasaka. Iturup means “the best place”, Kunashir - Simushir means “a piece of land - a black island”, Shikotan - Shiashkotan (the endings “shir” and “kotan” mean “a piece of land” and “settlement”, respectively).

With their good nature, honesty and modesty, the Ainu made the best impression on Krusenstern. When they were given gifts for the fish they delivered, they took them in their hands, admired them and then returned them. It was with difficulty that the Ainu managed to convince them that this was being given to them as property. In relation to the Ainu, Catherine the Second prescribed to be kind to the Ainu and not to tax them, in order to alleviate the situation of the new Russian sub-South Kuril Ainu. Decree of Catherine II to the Senate on the exemption from taxes of the Ainu - the population of the Kuril Islands who accepted Russian citizenship in 1779. Eya I.V. commands that the shaggy Kurilians - the Ainu, brought into citizenship on the distant islands - should be left free and no tax should be demanded from them, and henceforth the peoples living there should not be forced to do so, but try to continue what has already been done with them by friendly treatment and affection for the expected benefit in trades and trade acquaintance. The first cartographic description of the Kuril Islands, including their southern part, was made in 1711-1713. according to the results of the expedition of I. Kozyrevsky, who collected information about most of the Kuril Islands, including Iturup, Kunashir and even the “Twenty-Second” Kuril Island MATMAI (Matsmai), which later became known as Hokkaido. It was precisely established that the Kuril Islands were not subordinate to any foreign state. In the report of I. Kozyrevsky in 1713. it was noted that the South Kuril Ainu “live autocratically and are not subject to citizenship and trade freely.” It should be especially noted that Russian explorers, in accordance with the policy of the Russian state, discovering new lands inhabited by the Ainu, immediately announced the inclusion of these lands in Russia, began to study and economic development, carried out missionary activities, and imposed tribute (yasak) on the local population. During the 18th century, all the Kuril Islands, including their southern part, became part of Russia. This is confirmed by the statement made by the head of the Russian embassy N. Rezanov during negotiations with the commissioner of the Japanese government K. Toyama in 1805 that “north of Matsmaya (Hokkaido) all lands and waters belong to the Russian emperor and that the Japanese did not extend their possessions further." The 18th-century Japanese mathematician and astronomer Honda Toshiaki wrote that “... the Ainu look at the Russians as their own fathers,” since “true possessions are won by virtuous deeds. Countries forced to submit to force of arms remain, at heart, unconquered.”

By the end of the 80s. In the 18th century, enough evidence of Russian activity in the Kuril Islands was accumulated so that, in accordance with the norms of international law of that time, the entire archipelago, including its southern islands, belonged to Russia, which was recorded in Russian state documents. First of all, we should mention the imperial decrees (recall that at that time the imperial or royal decree had the force of law) of 1779, 1786 and 1799, which confirmed the Russian citizenship of the South Kuril Ainu (then called the “shaggy Kurilians”), and the islands themselves were declared possession Russia. In 1945, the Japanese evicted all the Ainu from occupied Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands to Hokkaido, while for some reason they left on Sakhalin a labor army of Koreans brought by the Japanese and the USSR had to accept them as stateless persons, then the Koreans moved to Central Asia. A little later, ethnographers wondered for a long time where in these harsh lands the people wearing the open (southern) type of clothing came from, and linguists discovered Latin, Slavic, Anglo-Germanic and even Indo-Aryan roots in the Ainu language. The Ainu were classified as Indo-Aryans, Australoids, and even Caucasians. In a word, the riddles became more and more, and the answers brought more and more new problems. The Ainu population consisted of socially stratified groups (“utar”), headed by families of leaders by the right of inheritance of power (it should be noted that the Ainu clan went through the female line, although the man was naturally considered the head of the family). "Uthar" was built on the basis of fictitious kinship and had a military organization. The ruling families, who called themselves “utarpa” (head of the Utar) or “nishpa” (leader), represented a layer of the military elite. Men of “high birth” were destined for military service from birth; high-born women spent their time doing embroidery and shamanic rituals (“tusu”).

The chief's family had a dwelling within a fortification ("chasi"), surrounded by an earthen mound (also called a "chasi"), usually under the cover of a mountain or rock jutting out over a terrace. The number of embankments often reached five or six, which alternated with ditches. Together with the leader's family, there were usually servants and slaves (“ushu”) inside the fortification. The Ainu did not have any centralized power. The Ainu preferred the bow as a weapon. No wonder they were called “people with arrows sticking out of their hair” because they carried quivers (and swords, by the way, too) on their backs. The bow was made from elm, beech or euonymus (a tall shrub, up to 2.5 m high with very strong wood) with whalebone guards. The bowstring was made from nettle fibers. The plumage of the arrows consisted of three eagle feathers. A few words about combat tips. Both "regular" armor-piercing and spiked arrowheads were used in combat (possibly to better cut through armor or to get an arrow stuck in a wound). There were also tips of an unusual, Z-shaped cross-section, which were most likely borrowed from the Manchus or Jurgens (information has been preserved that in the Middle Ages the Sakhalin Ainu fought back a large army that came from the mainland). Arrowheads were made of metal (early ones were made of obsidian and bone) and then coated with aconite poison “suruku”. The root of aconite was crushed, soaked and placed in a warm place to ferment. A stick with poison was applied to the spider's leg; if the leg fell off, the poison was ready. Due to the fact that this poison decomposed quickly, it was widely used in hunting large animals. The arrow shaft was made of larch.

The Ainu swords were short, 45-50 cm long, slightly curved, with one-sided sharpening and a one-and-a-half-handed handle. The Ainu warrior - dzhangin - fought with two swords, not recognizing shields. The guards of all swords were removable and were often used as decoration. There is evidence that some guards were specially polished to a mirror shine to repel evil spirits. In addition to swords, the Ainu carried two long knives (“cheyki-makiri” and “sa-makiri”), which were worn on the right hip. Cheiki-makiri was a ritual knife for making sacred shavings "inau" and performing the ritual "pere" or "erytokpa" - ritual suicide, which was later adopted by the Japanese, calling it "harakiri" or "seppuku" (as, by the way, the cult of the sword, special shelves for sword, spear, bow). Ainu swords were put on public display only during the Bear Festival. An old legend says: Long ago, after this country was created by God, there lived an old Japanese man and an old Ain. The Ainu grandfather was ordered to make a sword, and the Japanese grandfather: money (it is further explained why the Ainu had a cult of swords, and the Japanese had a thirst for money. The Ainu condemned their neighbors for money-grubbing). They treated spears rather coolly, although they exchanged them with the Japanese.

Another detail of the Ainu warrior’s weapons were battle mallets - small rollers with a handle and a hole at the end, made of hard wood. The sides of the beaters were equipped with metal, obsidian or stone spikes. The beaters were used both as a flail and as a sling - a leather belt was threaded through the hole. A well-aimed blow from such a mallet killed immediately, or at best (for the victim, of course) disfigured him forever. The Ainu did not wear helmets. They had natural long thick hair that was matted together, forming something like a natural helmet. Now let's move on to the armor. Sundress-type armor was made from bearded seal leather (“sea hare” - a type of large seal). In appearance, such armor (see photo) may seem bulky, but in reality it practically does not restrict movement, allowing you to bend and squat freely. Thanks to numerous segments, four layers of skin were obtained, which with equal success repelled the blows of swords and arrows. The red circles on the chest of the armor symbolize the three worlds (upper, middle and lower worlds), as well as shamanic “toli” disks, which scare away evil spirits and generally have magical significance. Similar circles are also depicted on the back. Such armor is fastened at the front using numerous ties. There was also short armor, like sweatshirts with planks or metal plates sewn on them. Very little is currently known about the martial art of the Ainu. It is known that the proto-Japanese adopted almost everything from them. Why not assume that some elements of martial arts were also not adopted?

Only such a duel has survived to this day. The opponents, holding each other by the left hand, struck with clubs (the Ainu specially trained their backs to pass this test of endurance). Sometimes these clubs were replaced with knives, and sometimes they fought simply with their hands until the opponents lost their breath. Despite the cruelty of the fight, no cases of injury were observed. In fact, the Ainu fought not only with the Japanese. Sakhalin, for example, they conquered from the “Tonzi” - a short people, truly the indigenous population of Sakhalin. From “tonzi”, Ainu women adopted the habit of tattooing their lips and the skin around their lips (the result was a kind of half-smile - half-mustache), as well as the names of some (very good quality) swords - “toncini”. It is curious that the Ainu warriors - Dzhangins - were noted as very warlike; they were incapable of lying. Information about the signs of ownership of the Ainu is also interesting - they put special signs on arrows, weapons, and dishes, passed down from generation to generation, so as not to confuse, for example, whose arrow hit the beast, or who owns this or that thing. There are more than one hundred and fifty such signs, and their meanings have not yet been deciphered. Rock inscriptions were discovered near Otaru (Hokkaido) and on the island of Urup.

It remains to add that the Japanese were afraid of open battle with the Ainu and conquered them by cunning. An ancient Japanese song said that one “emishi” (barbarian, ain) is worth a hundred people. There was a belief that they could create fog. Over the years, the Ainu repeatedly rebelled against the Japanese (in Ainu “chizhem”), but lost each time. The Japanese invited the leaders to their place to conclude a truce. Piously honoring the customs of hospitality, the Ainu, trusting like children, did not think anything bad. They were killed during the feast. As a rule, the Japanese were unsuccessful in other ways to suppress the uprising.

“The Ainu are a meek, modest, good-natured, trusting, sociable, polite people who respect property; brave on the hunt

and... even intelligent.” (A.P. Chekhov - Sakhalin Island)

From the 8th century The Japanese did not stop slaughtering the Ainu, who fled from extermination to the north - to Hokkaido - Matmai, the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin. Unlike the Japanese, the Russian Cossacks did not kill them. After several skirmishes, normal friendly relations were established between the similar-looking blue-eyed and bearded aliens on both sides. And although the Ainu flatly refused to pay the yasak tax, no one killed them for it, unlike the Japanese. However, 1945 became a turning point for the fate of this people. Today only 12 of its representatives live in Russia, but there are many “mestizo” from mixed marriages. The destruction of the “bearded people” - the Ainu in Japan stopped only after the fall of militarism in 1945. However, cultural genocide continues to this day.

It is significant that no one knows the exact number of Ainu on the Japanese islands. The fact is that in “tolerant” Japan there is often still a rather arrogant attitude towards representatives of other nationalities. And the Ainu were no exception: their exact number is impossible to determine, since according to Japanese censuses they are not listed either as a people or as a national minority. According to scientists, the total number of Ainu and their descendants does not exceed 16 thousand people, of which no more than 300 are purebred representatives of the Ainu people, the rest are “mestizo”. In addition, the Ainu are often left with the least prestigious jobs. And the Japanese are actively pursuing a policy of assimilation and there is no talk of any “cultural autonomy” for them. People from mainland Asia came to Japan around the same time that people first reached America. The first settlers of the Japanese islands - YOMON (ancestors of the AIN) reached Japan twelve thousand years ago, and YOUI (ancestors of the Japanese) came from Korea in the last two and a half millennia.

Work has been done in Japan that gives hope that genetics can resolve the question of who the ancestors of the Japanese are. Along with the Japanese living on the central islands of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, anthropologists distinguish two other modern ethnic groups: the Ainu from the island of Hokkaido in the north and the Ryukyu people living mainly on the southernmost island of Kinawa. One theory is that these two groups, the Ainu and Ryukyuan, are descendants of the original Yomon settlers who once occupied all of Japan and were later driven from the central islands north to Hokkaido and south to Okinawa by the Youi newcomers from Korea. Mitochondrial DNA research conducted in Japan only partially supports this hypothesis: it showed that modern Japanese from the central islands have much in common genetically with modern Koreans, with whom they share much more of the same and similar mitochondrial types than with the Ainu and Ryukuyans. However, it is also shown that there are practically no similarities between the Ainu and Ryukyu people. Age assessments have shown that both of these ethnic groups have accumulated certain mutations over the past twelve thousand years - suggesting that they are indeed descendants of the original Yeomon people, but also proving that the two groups have not had contact with each other since then.

Ainu(Ainu) is a mysterious tribe, because of which scientists from different countries have broken a great many copies. They are white-faced and straight-eyed (men are also very hairy) and in their appearance they are strikingly different from other peoples of East Asia. They are clearly not Mongoloids; they rather gravitate towards the anthropological type of Southeast Asia and Oceania.

Ainu in traditional costumes. 1904

Hunters and fishermen, who for centuries knew almost no agriculture, the Ainu nevertheless created an unusual and rich culture. Their ornamentation, carving and wooden sculpture are amazing in beauty and invention; their songs, dances and stories are beautiful, like any genuine creations of the people.

Each nation has a unique history and distinctive culture. Science, to a greater or lesser extent, knows the stages of historical development of a particular ethnic group. But there are peoples in the world whose origin remains a mystery. And today they continue to excite the minds of ethnographers. These ethnic groups primarily include the Ainu - the aborigines of the Far Eastern region.

They were an interesting, beautiful and naturally healthy people who settled on the Japanese Islands, southern Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. They called themselves by various tribal names - “soya-untara”, “Chuvka-untara”. The word “Ainu”, which they are used to calling them, is not the self-name of this people. It means "man". These aborigines are identified by scientists as a separate Ainu race, combining Caucasoid, Australoid and Mongoloid features in their appearance.

The historical problem that arises with the Ainu is the question of their racial and cultural origins. Traces of the existence of this people were found even in Neolithic sites on the Japanese Islands. The Ainu are the oldest ethnic community. Their ancestors are carriers of the Jomon culture (literally “rope ornament”), which dates back almost 13 thousand years (on the Kuril Islands - 8 thousand years).

The beginning of the scientific study of Jomon sites was laid by the German archaeologists F. and G. Siebold and the American Morse. The results they obtained varied significantly. If the Siebolds asserted with all responsibility that the Jomon culture was the creation of the hands of the ancient Ainu, then Morse was more careful. He disagreed with the point of view of his German colleagues, but at the same time emphasized that the Jomon period was significantly different from the Japanese period.

But what about the Japanese themselves, who called the Ainu with the word “ebi-su”? Most of them did not agree with the archaeologists' conclusions. For them, the aborigines were always only barbarians, as evidenced, for example, by the recording of a Japanese chronicler made in 712: “When our exalted ancestors descended from the sky on a ship, on this island (Honshu) they found several wild peoples, among them the wildest there were Ainu."

But as archaeological excavations testify, the ancestors of these “savages”, long before the Japanese appeared on the islands, created an entire culture there that any nation can be proud of! That is why official Japanese historiography has made attempts to correlate the creators of Jomon culture with the ancestors of modern Japanese, but not with the Ainu.

Yet most scholars agree that the Ainu culture was so vital that it influenced the culture of its enslavers, the Japanese. As Professor S.A. Arutyunov points out, Ainu elements played a significant role in the formation of samuraiism and the ancient Japanese religion - Shintoism.

So, for example, the Ainu warrior - Dzhangin - had two short swords, 45-50 cm long, slightly curved, with one-sided sharpening and fought with them, not recognizing shields. In addition to swords, the Ainu carried two long knives (“cheyki-makiri” and “sa-makiri”). The first was a ritual knife for making sacred shavings "inau" and performing the ritual "pere" or "erytokpa" - ritual suicide, which the Japanese later adopted, calling it hara-kiri, or seppuku (as, by the way, is the cult of the sword, special shelves for swords, spears , onions).

Ainu swords were put on public display only during the Bear Festival. An old legend says: “Long ago, after this country was created by God, there lived an old Japanese man and an old Ainu man. The Ainu grandfather was ordered to make a sword, and the Japanese grandfather was ordered to make money.” It further explains why the Ainu had a cult of swords, and the Japanese had a thirst for money. The Ainu condemned their neighbors for money-grubbing.

The Ainu did not wear helmets. By nature, they had long thick hair, which was matted together, forming something like a natural helmet. Very little is currently known about the martial art of the Ainu. It is believed that the proto-Japanese adopted almost everything from them. In fact, the Ainu fought not only with the Japanese.

Sakhalin, for example, they conquered from the “Tonzi” - a short people, truly the indigenous population of Sakhalin. It remains to add that the Japanese were afraid of open battle with the Ainu, conquered and ousted them by cunning. An ancient Japanese song said that one “emishi” (barbarian, ain) is worth a hundred people. There was a belief that they could create fog.

Initially, the Ainu lived on the islands of Japan (then it was called Ainumoshiri - land of the Ainu), until they were pushed north by the proto-Japanese. They came to the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin already in the 13th-14th centuries. Traces of their presence were also found in Kamchatka, Primorye and Khabarovsk Territory.

Many toponymic names of the Sakhalin region have Ainu names: Sakhalin (from “Sakharen Mosiri” - “wave-shaped land”); the islands of Kunashir, Simushir, Shikotan, Shiashkotan (the endings “shir” and “kotan” mean “plot of land” and “settlement”, respectively). It took the Japanese more than two thousand years to occupy the entire archipelago up to and including Hokkaido (then called Ezo) (the earliest evidence of skirmishes with the Ainu dates back to 660 BC).

There are enough facts about the cultural history of the Ainu, and it would seem that their origins can be calculated with a high degree of accuracy.

Firstly, it can be assumed that in ancient times, the entire northern half of the main Japanese island of Honshu was inhabited by tribes that were either the direct ancestors of the Ainu or were very close to them in their material culture. Secondly, two elements are known that formed the basis of the Ainu ornament - a spiral and a zigzag.

Thirdly, there is no doubt that the starting point of the Ainu beliefs was primitive animism, that is, the recognition of the existence of a soul in any creature or object. And finally, the social organization of the Ainu and their method of production have been studied quite well.

But it turns out that the factual method does not always pay off. For example, it has been proven that the spiral ornament was never the property of the Ainu alone. It was widely used in the art of the inhabitants of New Zealand - the Maori, in the decorative designs of the Papuans of New Guinea, and among the Neolithic tribes who lived in the lower reaches of the Amur.

What is this - a random coincidence or traces of the existence of certain contacts between the tribes of East and Southeast Asia at some distant period? But who was the first and who adopted the discovery? It is also known that the worship of the bear and its cult were widespread over vast areas of Europe and Asia. But among the Ainu it is sharply different from similar ones among other peoples, for only they fed the sacrificial bear cub at the breast of a female nurse!

Ainu and the cult of the bear

The Ainu language also stands apart. At one time it was believed that it was not related to any other language, but now some scientists bring it closer to the Malayo-Polynesian group. And linguists have discovered Latin, Slavic, Anglo-Germanic and even Sanskrit roots in the Ainu language. In addition, ethnographers are still grappling with the question of where in these harsh lands people wearing the swinging (southern) type of clothing came from.

The robe dress, made from wood fibers and decorated with traditional patterns, looked equally good on men and women. Festive white robes were made from nettles. In the summer, the Ainu wore a loincloth of the southern type, and in the winter they sewed fur clothes for themselves. They used salmon skins to make knee-length moccasins.

The Ainu were alternately classified as Indo-Aryans, Australoids, and even Europeans. The Ainu themselves considered themselves to have flown from heaven: “There was a time when the first Ainu descended from the Land of Clouds to the earth, fell in love with it, took up hunting and fishing in order to eat, dance and bear children” (from an Ainu legend). And indeed, the life of these amazing people was completely connected with nature, the sea, the forest, the islands.

They, engaged in gathering, hunting, and fishing, combined the knowledge, skills and abilities of many tribes and peoples. For example, as taiga dwellers, we went hunting; they collected seafood like southerners; They beat the sea beast, like the inhabitants of the north. The Ainu strictly kept the secret of mummifying the dead and the recipe for a deadly poison extracted from the root of the aconite plant, with which they impregnated the tips of their arrows and harpoons. They knew that this poison would quickly decompose in the body of a killed animal and the meat could be eaten.

The tools and weapons of the Ainu were very similar to those used by other communities of prehistoric people who lived in similar climatic and geographical conditions. True, they had one significant advantage - they had obsidian, which the Japanese islands are rich in. When processing obsidian, the edges were smoother than those of flint, so that the arrowheads and axes of the Jomon can be classified as masterpieces of Neolithic production.

The most important weapons were the bow and arrows. The production of harpoons and fishing rods made from deer antlers reached a high level of development. In a word, both the tools and weapons of the Jomon were typical for their time, and the only surprise was that people who knew neither agriculture nor cattle breeding lived in fairly large communities.

And how many mysterious questions the culture of this people gave rise to! The ancient Ainu created amazingly beautiful ceramics by hand molding (without any device for turning dishes, much less a potter's wheel), decorating them with intricate rope patterns, and mysterious dogu figurines.

Ceramics of the Jomon culture

Everything was done by hand! And yet Jomon pottery has a special place in primitive pottery in general - nowhere does the contrast between the polishedness of its ornamentation and the extremely low “technology” look more striking than here. In addition, the Ainu were perhaps the earliest farmers of the Far East.

And again the question! Why did they lose these skills, becoming only hunters and fishermen, essentially taking a step back in development? Why do the Ainu intertwine in the most bizarre way the features of different peoples, elements of high and primitive cultures?

Being a very musical people by nature, the Ainu loved and knew how to have fun. We carefully prepared for the holidays, of which the most important was the bear holiday. The Ainu deified everything around them. But they especially revered the bear, the snake and the dog.

Leading a seemingly primitive life, they gave the world inimitable examples of art and enriched the culture of mankind with incomparable mythology and folklore. With their whole appearance and life, they seemed to deny established ideas and habitual patterns of cultural development.

Ainu women had a smile tattoo on their faces. Culturologists believe that the tradition of drawing a “smile” is one of the oldest in the world; it was followed by representatives of the Ainu people for a long time. Despite all the prohibitions from the Japanese government, even in the 20th century, Ainu were tattooed; it is believed that the last “correctly” tattooed woman died in 1998.

Tattoos were applied exclusively to women; it was believed that this ritual was taught to the Ainu ancestors by the ancestor of all living things - Okikurumi Turesh Machi, the younger sister of the creator God Okikurumi. The tradition was passed down through the female line; the design was applied to the girl’s body by her mother or grandmother.

In the process of “Japanization” of the Ainu people, a ban on tattooing girls was introduced in 1799, and in 1871 a second strict ban was proclaimed in Hokkaido, since it was believed that the procedure was too painful and inhumane.

For the Ainu, refusing tattoos was unacceptable, since it was believed that in this case the girl would not be able to get married, and after death, find peace in the afterlife. It is worth noting that the ritual was indeed cruel: the drawing was first applied to girls at the age of seven, and later the “smile” was completed over the course of several years, the final stage being on the day of marriage.

In addition to the characteristic smile tattoo, geometric patterns could be seen on the hands of the Ainu; they were also applied to the body as a talisman.

In a word, the number of mysteries became more and more numerous over time, and the answers brought more and more new problems. Only one thing is known for sure, that their life in the Far East was extremely difficult and tragic. When Russian explorers reached the “farthest east” in the 17th century, a vast, majestic sea and numerous islands opened up to their eyes.

But they were more amazed by the appearance of the natives than by the bewitching nature. Before the travelers appeared people overgrown with thick beards, with wide eyes like Europeans, with large, protruding noses, looking like anyone: men from Russia, residents of the Caucasus, gypsies, but not the Mongoloids that Cossacks and servicemen were accustomed to see everywhere beyond the Ural ridge. Explorers dubbed them “furry smokers.”

Russian scientists gleaned information about the Kuril Ainu from the “note” of the Cossack ataman Danila Antsyferov and the captain Ivan Kozyrevsky, in which they notified Peter I about the discovery of the Kuril Islands and the first meeting of Russian people with the aborigines of those places.

This happened in 1711.

“Leaving the canoes to dry, we went along the shore at noon and by evening we saw either houses or plagues. Holding the squeaks at the ready - who knows what kind of people there are - we headed towards them. About fifty people dressed in skins poured out to meet them. They looked without fear and had an extraordinary appearance - hairy, long-bearded, but with white faces and not slanted, like the Yakuts and Kamchadals.”

For several days, the conquerors of the Far East, through an interpreter, tried to persuade the “shaggy Kurilians” to accept the sovereign’s hand, but they refused such an honor, declaring that they had not paid yasak to anyone and would not pay them. All the Cossacks learned was that the land to which they sailed was an island, that at noon there were other islands behind it, and even further away - Matmai, Japan.

26 years after Antsyferov and Kozyrevsky, Stepan Krasheninnikov visited Kamchatka. He left behind a classic work, “Description of the Land of Kamchatka,” where, among other information, he gave a detailed description of the Ainu as an ethnic type. This was the first scientific description of the tribe. A century later, in May 1811, the famous navigator Vasily Golovnin visited here.

The future admiral spent several months studying and describing the nature of the islands and the life of their inhabitants; his truthful and colorful story about what he saw was highly appreciated by both lovers of literature and scientific experts. Let us also note this detail: Golovnin’s translator was a Kurilian, that is, an Ain, Alexey.

We do not know what name he bore “in the world,” but his fate is one of the many examples of contact between Russians and the Kurils, who willingly learned Russian speech, accepted Orthodoxy, and conducted lively trade with our ancestors.

The Kuril Ainu, according to eyewitnesses, were very kind, friendly and open people. Europeans who visited the islands over the years and usually boasted of their culture had high demands on etiquette, but they noted the gallantry of manners characteristic of the Ainu.

The Dutch navigator de Vries wrote:
“Their behavior towards foreigners is so simple and sincere that educated and polite people could not have behaved better. Appearing before strangers, they dress in their best clothes, say their greetings and wishes with forgiveness, and bow their heads.”

Perhaps it was precisely this good nature and openness that did not allow the Ainu to resist the harmful influence of people from the mainland. Regression in their development occurred when they found themselves between two fires: pressed from the south by the Japanese and from the north by the Russians.

Modern Ainu

It so happened that this ethnic branch - the Kuril Ainu - was wiped off the face of the Earth. Nowadays the Ainu live in several reservations in the south and southeast of the island. Hokkaido, in the Ishikari River valley. Purebred Ainu practically degenerated or assimilated with the Japanese and Nivkhs. Now there are only 16 thousand of them, and the number continues to decline sharply.

The life of modern Ainu is strikingly reminiscent of the life of the ancient Jomon. Their material culture has changed so little over the past centuries that these changes may not be taken into account. They leave, but the burning secrets of the past continue to excite and disturb, inflame the imagination and nourish an inexhaustible interest in this amazing, original and unlike anyone else people.

There is one ancient People on earth that has been simply ignored for more than one century, and has been persecuted more than once in Japan due to the fact that by its existence it simply breaks the established official false history of both Japan and Russia.
In order for you to better understand what the Great Border People of the Ainov, who have survived to this day, are a part of, let’s make a small digression and clarify what Rus' used to be.

As you know, Rus' used to be different from what it is now, small nations did not live separately from us, we existed together as a single people, we are Rus, Ukrainians are Little Russians and Belarusians. At least half of Europe belonged to us, there were neither the countries of Scandinavia (later the countries gained their status, but for a long time remained satellites of Rus'), nor Germany (East Prussia was conquered by the Teutonic Order in the 13th century and the Germans are not the indigenous population of East Prussia.) nor Denmark, etc. It didn’t exist then, all this was part of Rus'. Old maps speak about this, where Rus' is Tartaria, or Grande Tartarie or Mogolo, Mongolo Tartarie, Mongolo (with the emphasis) Tartary.

Here is one of Mercator's maps

Is it worth mentioning that Mercator was persecuted by the church, but this is already a topic rather about his map Septentrionalium Terrarum Descriptio. ancient land, present-day Antarctica, our forbidden past.

Here is a map from 1512, naturally Germany is already on it, but the territory of Rus' is also clearly indicated, which borders on the German conquered lands. The territory of Rus' there is designated not by Tartary as usual, but in general, together with Muscovy - Rvssiae, Rus, Rosy, Russia. The current Barents Sea was then called the Murmansk Sea

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Here is a map from 1663, here the territory of Muscovy is highlighted in white, and through it there are inscriptions that stand out the most

This is Pars Europa Russia Moskovia on the white part where today's Europe is

Siberia In the red territory, also called Tartaria by the Greeks and pro-Westerners, Tartaria

Below on the green Tartaria Vagabundorum Independens, where Mongolia and Tibet were previously and still are, which were under the protectorate and protection of Rus', them from China.

Through the green and red regions of Tartaria Magna, Great Tartaria, that is, Rus'

Well, below on the right is the yellow region of Tartaria Chinensis, Sinarium, China Extra Muros, a border and trade territory also controlled by Russia.

Below is the light green region of Imperum China, China, it is easy to imagine how relatively small it was then and how much land, under Peter and the Romanov Jews in general, was given to them.

Below is the yellow area Magni Mogolis Imperium India, Indian Empire. etc.

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This myth was necessary for the Jews who carried out bloody baptism in order to justify the huge number of Slavs they killed (after all, in the then Kiev region alone, nine out of twelve million people, Slavs, were destroyed, which is also proven by archaeologists, confirming the fact of a sharp reduction in the population, villages, at the time of baptism), and wash your hands with this lie before the people. Well, most of the current rednecks, marinated and zombified in advance since their school years by the state program, still believe in them and figure it out, even if they’re just in no hurry for themselves
Somewhere in the middle of this time, these centuries, while there was pro-church turmoil in Rus' and many peoples remained abandoned, some of them were the Ainu, the inhabitants of what was once our Far Eastern islands.

Now, there is reason to believe that not only in Japan, but also on the territory of Russia there is a part of this ancient indigenous people. According to preliminary data from the latest population census, held in October 2010, there are more than 100 Ainov in our country. The fact itself is unusual, because until recently it was believed that the Ainu lived only in Japan. They guessed about this, but on the eve of the population census, employees of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences noticed that, despite the absence of Russian peoples in the official list, some of our fellow citizens stubbornly continue to consider themselves Ainu and have good reason for this.

As research has shown, the Ainu, or Kamchadal Kurils, did not disappear anywhere, they simply did not want to be recognized for many years. But Stepan Krasheninnikov, a researcher of Siberia and Kamchatka (XVIII century), described them as Kamchadal Kurils. The name "Ainu" itself comes from their word for "man", or "worthy man", and is associated with military operations. And as one of the representatives of this nation claims in a conversation with the famous journalist M. Dolgikh, the Ainu fought with the Japanese for 650 years. It turns out that this is the only people remaining to this day who, from ancient times, restrained the occupation and resisted the aggressor - the Japanese, who were, in fact, Koreans who moved to the islands and formed another state.

It has been scientifically established that the Ainu about 7 thousand years ago inhabited the north of the Japanese archipelago, the Kuril Islands and part of Sakhalin and, according to some data, part of Kamchatka and even the lower reaches of the Amur. The Japanese who came from the south gradually assimilated and pushed the Ainu to the north of the archipelago - to Hokkaido and the southern Kuril Islands.

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According to experts, in Japan the Ainu were considered “barbarians”, “savages” and social outcasts. The hieroglyph used to designate the Ainu means “barbarian”, “savage”, now the Japanese also call them “hairy Ainu”, for which the Japanese do not like the Ainu. At the end of the 19th century. About one and a half thousand Ainu lived in Russia. After World War II, they were partly evicted, partly they left along with the Japanese population. Some mixed with the Russian population of the Far East.

In appearance, representatives of the Ainu people very little resemble their closest neighbors - the Japanese, Nivkhs and Itelmens. The Ainu are the White Race.

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According to the Kamchadal Kurils themselves, all the names of the islands of the southern ridge were given by the Ainu tribes who once inhabited these territories. By the way, it is wrong to think that the names of the Kuril Islands, Kuril Lake, etc. originated from hot springs or volcanic activity. It’s just that the Kuril Islands, or Kurilians, live here, and “Kuru” in Ainu means people. It should be noted that this version destroys the already flimsy basis of the Japanese claims to our Kuril Islands. Even if the name of the ridge comes from our Ainu. This was confirmed during the expedition to the island. Matua. There is Ainu Bay, where the oldest Ainu site was discovered. From the artifacts it became clear that from about 1600 it was the Ainu.

Therefore, according to experts, it is very strange to say that the Ainu have never been in the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, as the Japanese are doing now, assuring everyone that the Ainu live only in Japan, so they supposedly need to give the Kuril Islands. This is completely untrue. In Russia there are the Ainu - an indigenous people who also have the right to consider these islands their ancestral lands.

American anthropologist S. Lorin Brace, from Michigan State University in the journal Science Horizons, No. 65, September-October 1989. writes: “a typical Ainu is easy to distinguish from the Japanese: he has lighter skin, thicker body hair, beards, which is unusual for the Mongoloids, and a more protruding nose.”

Brace studied about 1,100 crypts of Japanese, Ainu and other Asian ethnic groups and came to the conclusion that representatives of the privileged samurai class in Japan are in fact descendants of the Ainu, and not the Yayoi (Mongoloids), the ancestors of most modern Japanese. Brace further writes: “.. this explains why the facial features of representatives of the ruling class are so often different from modern Japanese. The samurai, descendants of the Ainu, gained such influence and prestige in medieval Japan that they intermarried with the ruling circles and introduced Ainu blood into them, while the rest of the Japanese population were mainly descendants of the Yayoi."

It should also be noted that in addition to archaeological and other features, the language has been partially preserved. There is a dictionary of the Kuril language in “Description of the Land of Kamchatka” by S. Krasheninnikov. In Hokkaido, the dialect spoken by the Ainu is called saru, in Sakhalin it is called reichishka. The Ainu language differs from Japanese in syntax, phonology, morphology and vocabulary. Although there have been attempts to prove that they are related, the vast majority of modern scientists reject the assumption that the relationship between the languages ​​goes beyond contact relations, involving the mutual borrowing of words in both languages. In fact, no attempt to link the Ainu language to any other language has been widely accepted, so it is currently assumed that the Ainu language is a separate language.

In principle, according to the famous Russian political scientist and journalist P. Alekseev, the problem of the Kuril Islands can be solved politically and economically. To do this, it is necessary to allow the Ainu (who were evicted by the Soviet government to Japan in 1945) to return from Japan to the land of their ancestors (including their ancestral habitat - the Amur region, Kamchatka, Sakhalin and all the Kuril Islands, creating at least following the example of the Japanese (it is known that the parliament Japan only recognized the Ainu as an independent national minority in 2008), Russian dispersed autonomy of an “independent national minority" with the participation of the indigenous Ainu of Russia. We have neither the people nor the means for the development of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, but the Ainu do. Those who moved from In Japan, the Ainu, according to experts, can give impetus to the economy of the Russian Far East by forming national autonomy not only on the Kuril Islands, but also within Russia.

Japan, according to P. Alekseev, will be out of business, because there the displaced Ainu will disappear (there are negligible numbers of displaced pure Japanese), but here they can settle not only in the southern part of the Kuril Islands, but throughout their entire original range, our Far East, eliminating the emphasis on the southern Kuril Islands. Since many of the Ainu deported to Japan were our citizens, it is possible to use the Ainu as allies against the Japanese by restoring the dying Ainu language. The Ainu were not allies of Japan and never will be, but they can become allies of Russia. But unfortunately, we still ignore this ancient People. With our pro-Western government, which feeds Chechnya for free, which deliberately flooded Russia with people of Caucasian nationality, opened unimpeded entry for emigrants from China, and those who are clearly not interested in preserving the Peoples of Russia should not think that they will pay attention to the Ainov, only civil initiative will help here.

As noted by leading researcher at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Academician K. Cherevko, Japan exploited these islands. Their law includes such a concept as “development through trade exchange.” And all the Ainu - both conquered and unconquered - were considered Japanese and were subject to their emperor. But it is known that even before that the Ainu gave taxes to Russia. True, this was irregular.

Thus, we can say with confidence that the Kuril Islands belong to the Ainu, but, one way or another, Russia must proceed from international law. According to him, i.e. According to the San Francisco Peace Treaty, Japan renounced the islands. Today there are simply no legal grounds for revising the documents signed in 1951 and other agreements. But such matters are resolved only in the interests of big politics, and I repeat that only its fraternal people, that is, we, can help this people.