Myths of the World

The Naso or Teribe tribe (also Tjër Di ) are an Indigenous people of Panama and Costa Rica . They primarily live in northwest Panama in the Bocas del Toro Province and Naso Tjër Di Comarca as well as in southern Costa Rica in the Puntarenas Province . There are roughly 3,500 people who belong to the Naso tribe. It is one of the few Indigenous groups or tribes that continues to have a monarchy .  The Naso people have traditionally occupied the mountainous jungle regions of western Bocas del Toro where they continue to identify with the lands along the river that became known in the Spanish speaking world as the Teribe or Tjër Di in Naso. ‘Di’ means ‘water’ and 'Tjër' is their mythical “Grand-Mother” who was endowed by God with the secrets of botanical medicine.  Until as recently as three or four generations ago the Naso people led a remarkably autonomous existence. Dispersed among their clans and homesteads, and geographically isolated from most of the world, the Naso ...

Kazakhs  are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia and Eastern Europe . They share a common culture , language and history that is closely related to those of other Turkic peoples. The majority of ethnic Kazakhs live in their transcontinental nation state of Kazakhstan .  Ethnic Kazakh communities are present in Kazakhstan's border regions in Russia , Kyrgyzstan , northern Uzbekistan , northwestern China ( Xinjiang ), western Mongolia ( Bayan-Ölgii ), and northern Iran ( Golestan ).   The Kazakh people were formed as a result of the merging of Mongol, Turkic, and other Eurasian groups between the 13th and 15th centuries. In the 15th century, under the leadership of two sultans Janibek Khan and Kerei Khan Kazakhs founded the Kazakh Khanate , which existed until the mid-19th century.  The term Kazakh is used to refer to ethnic Kazakhs, while the term Kazakhstani refers to all citizens of Kazakhstan, regardless of ethnicity.  The Kaza...