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Footstep Category: Tundra Tale

15. Stone Blessing Pouch (Tundra Tale)

STONE BLESSING POUCH (tundra tale) You have already met the tale of Lyuba’s coat. This is another piece of that story, about a prayer that travelled northwards, and then still further north, far more north that we could have dreamed when this tale began. A pouch was birthed by one Arctic woman living in one […]

5. Lyuba’s Coat (Tundra Tale)

LYUBA’S COAT (tundra tale) This is a story about Lyuba. I first met Lyuba in Russia many years ago at a festival of indigenous northern peoples where I was performing songs with Siberian friends. She was part of a small group of reindeer herders who had travelled a great distance from the Arctic tundra region […]