Nivkhids, or cool kids?

Nivkhids or cool kids? Or do they overlap?

The minority Nivkh culture of Russia’s Sakhalin Oblast / Сахали́нская о́бласть / Sahalínskaya óblast’ in Siberia in northeast Asia is moribund. There are likely only a few thousand Nivkh around today: as of the 2002 Russian census, the number of Nivkhs stood at about 5,000.

In the moribund Nivkh language, nivkh means “person, man” and they thus refer to themselves as нивхгу / nivkhgu / n’ivxgu, or “the people”… ɲaqr, meqr, caqr, nɨkr, tʰoqr, ɲax, ɲamk, minr, ɲɨɲben, mxoqr= 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10… nivkh = person; kan = dog; tig’r = tree… nivkh nin = one person; kan n’yn’= one dog; tig’r nekh = one tree… Numerals, by the way, depend on the noun counted: are they small, round objects; long objects; large, round objects or objects with an indeterminate shape; thin, flat objects; animals and insects; humans and spirits with human-like forms; objects that occur in pairs; etc.?

Yet it is very clear to see from their regal, stalwart demeanour that they were once a prominent, esteemed people with good standing and significant prestige attached to their exploits. There is something special about them, clearly linked to the Buzz-Concept infinity.

Why? The proto-ancestor of Nivkh culture was founded thousands of years ago partly by intrepid Amerindians who came back on a pilgrimage from the Americas to update the rest of the Orientalesque sphere about their exploits with the Buzz-Concept infinity. The particular update the Amerindians in this encounter came bearing concerned the ability to think inter-culturally. The Orientalesque heartland was located around the Sakhalin region, burgeoning Orientalesque populations dotted all the way along the southernmost reach of the glaciers from the last ice age all the way to the Transbaikal region in what is now Russia, bordering Mongolia and China. The heartland ranged from semi-spiritual Transbaikal to fully-spiritual Manchuria* along the Amur River. The voyaging Amerindians were joined by Pre-Mongols and other curious Orientalesques from along the Amur River to participate in this holy development upon word being spread.

*in previous posts I have mentioned that the Orientalesque heartland was based around Sakhalin – well that is where it began, in reality stretching across Manchuria to Transbaikal as I have mentioned to above. Sakhalin was however technically the centre of the Proto-Orientalesque world from a spiritual view, the beautiful island having a holy significance to them all. Really, however, it was the Amur heartland I suppose. Sakhalin was the spiritual pot o’ gold at the end of the vibrant Amur heartland!

The Buzz-Concept infinity in its time was the single greatest thing humanity had ever achieved. Its scope was so stunning that the Amerindians were totally humbled by their own capabilities, becoming extremely earnest about it all. A proto-régime had been established among Proto-Amerindian populations by which underlings were skinned to the bone to satisfy their visionary hyper-rational social superiors. Many actually really didn’t like living that way, and the Amerindian voyagers were actually desperate for an escape when the Mongols or whoever invited them to stay in Siberia and found their own symbolic culture instead of returning home to the régime.

The early Mongol influence means that the Nivkh today only really qualify as Amerindian from a linguistic standpoint. Otherwise they are very Oriental. The Nivkh are said to have migrated from Transbaikal to Sakhalin at some point during the Neolithic Late Pleistocene. Bear in mind that these peoples were probably nomadic.

At the mouth of the Amur River lies beautiful Sakhalin. At its source, Mongolian desert. Proto-Orientalesque beliefs suggested that lush Sakhalin was too sacred to be inhabited, and instead one is better to follow the dark force of one’s own sensuality as the “Black Dragon” flows into bleaker taiga, tundra, steppe and desert. And that is how the pinnacular Orientalesques, the Mongols, ended up in their contemporary terrains, for your information. Only people deemed worthy were allowed to settle in Sakhalin in due course. And the Mongol meanies thus ended up in the desert. For their part, the Nivkh believed that the island itself was a representation of a giant beast lying down which trembles the earth when upset. The zealous zesty Nivkh would ~return~ and settle there when the time came. How well the image of Sakhalin is being maintained is how good they will be getting it from the other side i.e. from the spirits/spiritual realm. When they worked up enough points and became worthy, they started to feel something compelling them to move down the Amur – the subliminal force of legend. To this day, Orientalesque people cannot concretise when it comes to Sakhalin. It’s just a weird block they have, for some reason…!

The Amerindian tradition of sending envoys to update the Orientalesque canon was continued. In the Americas, people are obsessed with outsiders, maintaining bridges with the outside world a key part of their cultures: this dimension of their culture was in fact started by the Proto-Amerindians, who remained obsessed with the concept of the world beyond Beringia back in Siberia and the heartland even thousands of years after settling down. The “New World” started out as an experiment, duly fleshed out by intelligential ambition. So this was certainly something that happened. Because of their aura from the Buzz-Concept infinity, the Amerindians were seen as spiritually blessed by Siberians, and people always just knew to receive them warmly and give them support in settling down in Siberia. The Nivkh are even obsessed with accommodation, a very hospitable people, and even with furniture and furnishing. Noticed that their aesthetic perfectly complements that of IKEA?!