NOTE 7.–Rubruquis assigns such a festival to the month of May: ‘On the
9th day of the May Moon they collect all the white mares of their herds
and consecrate them. The Christian priests also must then assemble with
their thuribles. They then sprinkle new cosmos (_kumz_) on the ground,
and make a great feast that day, for according to their calendar, it is
their time of first drinking new cosmos, just as we reckon of our new wine
at the feast of St. Bartholomew (24th August), or that of St. Sixtus (6th
August), or of our fruit on the feast of St. James and St. Christopher’
(25th July). [With reference to this feast, Mr. Rockhill gives (_Rubruck_,
p. 241, note) extracts from _Pallas, Voyages_, IV. 579, and _Professor
Radloff, Aus Siberien_, I. 378.–H. C.] The Yakuts also hold such a
festival in June or July, when the mares foal, and immense wooden goblets
of kumz are emptied on that occasion. They also pour out kumz for the
Spirits to the four quarters of heaven.
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