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RUSSIAN liOMINOLOGY

THE BAYANOV PAPERS

Dmitri Bayanov

Edited by:

Christopher L. Murphy

and

Todd Prescott

ISBN-13: 978-0-88839-736-2

ISBN-I 0: 0-88839-736-4

Copyright © 2014 Dmitri Bayanov

Library and Archives Canada Catalogue in Publication Bayanov, Dmitri

Russian Hominology: The Bayanov Papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

Acknowledgments ........................................... 6

Introduction ................................................ 7

Chapters:

1. Historical Evidence for the Existence of Relict Hominoids . . . . . . . 10

2. Leaming from Folklore .................................... 43

3. Hominology in the Balkan Peninsula ......................... 113

4. Wheatcroft's Orang Pendek Evidence - Thoughts ............... 128

5. The Harm of Assumptions Turned into Convictions ............. 140

6. Thoughts on the Revolution in Anthropology .................. 143

7. The Problem of Acknowledgement ofHominology by the Scientific Community .................................. 177

8. Dr. Koffmann Replies to Professor Avdeyev ................... 181

9. Brief Ecological Description of the Caucasus Relic Hominoid ( almasty) by Dr. Marie-Jeanne Koffmann ........... .184

Final Concluding Remarks ................................... 195

Color Photo Presentation ................................... 160

Bibliography .............................................. 196

General Index ............................................. 200

Notes on word terms and usage: Throughout this work several variations of the root word "homin" (or this word alone) have been used. All such words generally mean, "of or related to sasquatch/bigfoot, almasty or associated beings." The word "hominology" refers to the study of such beings. Also, it should be noted that for the purpose of this book the word "almasty" has been used to identify the Russian equivalent of sasquatch/bigfoot.

Furthermore, the words sasquatch, bigfoot, yeti, almasty, yowie, and yeren have not been spelled with a capital letter except in quoted material.

Also, the word "sasquatch" is used as both a singular and plural word.

Special Notes: As this volume is a collection of papers (essays, articles, talks, and so forth), in some cases information, supporting stories or references, have been repeated in different papers. Nevertheless, to avoid excessive repetition, I have referred the reader to the first paper that contains the applicable information when more than a paragraph is involved.

It also needs to be noted that editing of all material was necessary for this volume.

As a result, some material will differ from that seen in my original papers or articles.

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Acknowledgments

Special thanks is extended to Kathy Moskowitz Strain for the use of her material, and the memory of the late Professor Boris Porshnev for the knowledge he imparted to me.

I also wish to acknowledge the late Bobbie Short who kindly posted my articles to her website, and now Candy Michlosky who has provided them on her website.

I am grateful to publisher David Hancock for his interest in my works and publishing them. But the greatest thanks and appreciation go to my editor Chris Murphy for his huge work in preparing this volume and my previous one. He is the best editor I've had in my life and that is largely because he himself is a writer-author of most valuable hominology books. So there is no lack of mutual understanding. As a rule, he accepts my proposals and I accept his.

Our author-editor relations are ideal.

In the final preparation of this work Chris asked Todd Prescott to assist him with detailed editing and proofing. Todd kindly agreed and I extend my appreciation to him for this great favor.

Thanks also to Wikipedia for the information I obtained from this source.

Dmitri Bayanov

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Shown here is a fragment of an old Russian icon from the collection of the Museum

of

the

Moscow

Kremlin.

Called The Virgin

Bogolyubskaya, it shows scenes from the lives of Saints Zosima and Savvati. It was painted in 1545 at the Solovetsky Monastery in the north of Russia. The scene shows the hermits Zosima and Savvati being tempted by the devil. The later is portrayed in the image of a shaggy biped better known today in Russia by the name of "snowman." The depiction of such creatures in ancient and medieval art is ubiquitous and very instructive. Deified and worshiped as lords of nature in heathen times, they were subsequently condemned and turned into demons in the major religions-Zoroastrianism, Judaism,

Christianity

and

Islam.

The

demonological and religious connections of snowmen, alias relict hominoids, have for ages camouflaged their true nature and prevented science from investigating the question in earnest. The situation is just beginning to change. (Photo: D. Bayanov)

161

A sculpture providing two views

of "Patty," the sasquatch seen in the Patterson/Gimlin documentary

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p; film,

by Alexandra Bourtseva.

Alexandra created the work in 197 4

and gifted it to me as a birthday

present that year. The protrusion

on Patty's head was caused, as

interpreted by Russian analysts, by

the mass of head hair, not a

sagittal bony crest. (Photos: D.

Bayanov)

162

Right: Author during the

1982 expedition in

Tajikistan.

Below: Perched precariously on slanting rock, the author demonstrates weathered bones that brought him and Vadim Makarov half

way across the country to

the Tien Shan Mountains.

The find had been reported

by a local hunter. We identified the skeletal remains as those of Homo sapiens.

(Photos: D. Bayanov)

164

Upper left: View of the location

of a hominoid encounter in

1980 by expedition member

Nina Grinyova; Hissar Range,

Tajikistan. (Photo: D. Bayanov)

Upper right: Photo to illustrate

the availability of hominoid

food in the Chukchi Peninsula.

(Photo: Alexandra Bourtseva)

Left: Beautiful Lake Pairon in

the Karatag Gorge of the Hissar

Range in Tajikistan. It was the

place of a female hominoid

sighting in 1980 by two

members of our hominology

seminar at the Darwin Museum.

(Photo: D. Bayanov)

165

Left: The steep rockface

on the bank of the

Chusovaya River in the

Urals area, where witness

Alexander Katayev sighted in 197 4 two homins, male and female, who

swam across the river

and climbed the rockface

"very quickly." (Photo:

Author's file)

Below: A summer camp of

Kazakh

cattle-breeders

Makarov and I visited on

our way to the cave with

skeletal remains. The hosts

offered us a good meal but

were reticent regarding the

wild man subject. (Photo:

A. Katayev)

166

Right: Author and Editor, in happy unison, crossing Oregon by car en route to the Willow Creek Bigfoot Symposium in

September 2003. I was lucky to cross paths with Chris Murphy in the early 1990s.

We have since worked together on a number of projects, including this book. (Photo: C. Murphy)

Below: Reading my report on the state of hominology in Russia which was accepted very warmly and mentioned by the local press. Following this there was a memorable outing, in the company of Bob Gimlin, John Green and other friends, to the famous site of the Patterson/Gimlin documentary film at Bluff Creek. It was my first and very enjoyable visit to the U.S. (Photo: D. Bayanov) 167

A small river named Voria which is near the author's country home.

The water is fresh and clean enough for bathing. (Photo: Olesia Bayanova)

Author's country home; property shared with squirrels, hedgehogs, frogs, jays, tomtits, woodpeckers ... and once visited by a moose.

(Photo: Olesia Bayanova)

171

Author at a sandy hill by the river in August 2009. He and his family like to hike. (Photo: Olesia Bayanova) 172

Author's earlier hominology books in

English, French, German and Russian are shown below. The first published was Wood Goblin Dubbed Monkey, 1991 (sixth book shown). The first and last shown are essentially the same book (English), just different editions and publishers.

All of these books, and this current title, are the culmination of 50 years of research in hominology. They contain the record of scientifically

unrecognized

hominids

throughout recorded history, both from the age of myth and folklore to the age of reality and the fringes of science. I believe we are on the threshold of resolving the issue and will hopefully write its final chapter. When we pass away, books remain and live on.

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