Симбиоз народа саха со своими лошадьми является одним из самых совершенных в жизни.

The Yakut Horse

Blood brother of the Sakha people

By Pearl Duval

Far, far away from here, at the other end of the world, lives a hairy little horse by the name of Yakut.  It lives in a frozen country called Yakutia, in eastern Siberia, and is the only horse which can survive within the Arctic Circle.

It is always amazing to note how the horse has been able to adapt to such incredibly different and hostile climates that it defies belief.  Think of the desert horses of Namibia and South Africa, one of the cruellest in the world, or the Sable Island horses on the Atlantic coast, battered by wind and tides throughout the year.  But who could have imagined that above the Arctic Circle a breed of horses could exist, able to endure temperatures ranging from 40o C (104o F) in summer to –60o C (-76o F) during the long Arctic winter months?

(...)Conclusion:

The symbiosis of the Sakha people with their horses is one of the most perfect in existence.  This alliance has always been completely integrated into daily life, into the culture, and even into the pantheon of heroes and of spirits, to the extent of become a member of the Sakha family.

Even though the horse has also been integrated for many centuries into our European and North American cultures as a working creature, an instrument of conquest or a companion animal, most of us have never been able to rid ourselves of the disgust we feel when we think of eating our companion.