Once upon a time, at the beginning of the beginning . . .

“Once upon a time, at the beginning of the beginning, behind the past, when the horns of the bull used to break off and fall, that’s the time when it happened, so they say…” So begins the Tuvan epic tale of the camel, as told gloriously by Dabgy Salchak-oolovna Bolat, in Tuva’s Kyzyl-Dag village. Why does a camel go so long without drinking? Why does the deer shed its horns? To find out read the translation in the video’s comment section, courtesy of Enduring Voices an awe-inspiring project to maintain the world’s linguistic heritage.