Yakut shamanism

Aspects of Yakut shamanism and Central Asian Buddhism have been promoted by the Sakha, like the Yhyakh festival.

[1] This version stands out compared to written recordings made a century afterward, where Omogoy and Ellei themselves migrate to the Middle Lena.

This change could have occurred due to "the process of developing ethnic self-consciousness" from Yakut inhabitation of the Middle Lena where "the ancient version was rethought accordingly.

"[2] In later accounts Omogoy Baai traveled to Tuymaada Valley of the Middle Lena in the vicinity of modern Yakutsk upon the advice of a shaman.

This variety potentially arose from the cultural diversity of Lake Baikal tribes that later became ancestors of the Yakut.

Instead their progenitor is an old man that rode a bull, Uluu Khoro (Yakut: Улуу Хоро, romanized: Ulû Xoro).

In consequence the Khorolors moved into present-day Verkhnevilyuysky and Suntarsky Districts, with Khoro eventually named after them.