The 7 Giants of the Urals - Virtual Tour
Мань-Пупу-Нёр
Seven rock formations called Man-Pupu-Nyor (meaning “little mountain of the gods” in Mansi language) stand in the Komi Republic, a part of the Ural Mountain area of Russia. They range from 30 to 42 meters tall. The pillars formed when erosion washed away the mountain that once surrounded them over a period of 200 million years.
Ancestrally, access to this place had been reserved to shamans of the mansi people. According to the legend, a shaman had cast a spell on six evil giants who were trying to cross the mountain range, converting them to stone, but with the bad fortune of also falling victim to the spell, in this way explaining the distribution of the pillars (six grouped together and one apart) !
Mansi are an endangered indigenous population in Khantia-Mansia, representing only 1% of the total population in this region where the majority of the oil produced in Russia comes from, and also exploited for its natural gas.
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Manpupunyor Plateau. Sunrise. in Russia
Seven rock formations called Man-Pupu-Nyor (meaning “little mountain of the gods” in Mansi language) stand in the Komi Republic, a part of the Ural Mountain area of Russia. They range from 30 to 42 meters tall. The pillars formed when erosion washed away the mountain that once surrounded them over a period of 200 million years.
Ancestrally, access to this place had been reserved to shamans of the mansi people. According to the legend, a shaman had cast a spell on six evil giants who were trying to cross the mountain range, converting them to stone, but with the bad fortune of also falling victim to the spell, in this way explaining the distribution of the pillars (six grouped together and one apart) !
Mansi are an endangered indigenous population in Khantia-Mansia, representing only 1% of the total population in this region where the majority of the oil produced in Russia comes from, and also exploited for its natural gas.
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Manpupunyor Plateau. Sunrise. in Russia
Tags: khantia-mansia, man-pupu-nyor, urals
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