Tuva.Asia / The New Research of Tuva

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was a brilliant European scientist, philosopher and inventor. When 57 he had a vision from God about which he told no one. Four years later he began to publish a series of 30 books revealing a vast number of new truths within Judeo-Christian Scriptures; among these new heavenly truths there was revealed an immensely older pictorial scripture, the ANCIENT WORD (of God) that existed in the Middle East and Asia. It later began to be falsified and was allowed to disappear everywhere except among some small secret groups of Mongols, some in Tuva. It is now that it should again be revealed in Asia in order that men can again speak with heaven's angels. Respond to this notice with information. E-mail: abanikolaj@yandex.ru. Adress: 667011, Kyzyl, Tuva, Russia, Post office box 060, Abayev N.V. (for James Brush).

Today in the Aldan Maadyr National Museum of Tuva (i.e. the National Museum in the name of Sixty Heroes of Tuva) a round table on the theme of “Tuvan Wedding” took place. Nowadays traditions of Tuvan marriage ceremonies are being forgotten very quickly and scientists are concerned about this fact. Among participants of the panel discussion there were fellows of the Tuvan Institute for Humanitarian Researches under the Government of the Republic of Tuva, employees of the National Museum of Tuva, representatives of the Civil Registry Office, lecturers of Tuvan State University and journalists of local mass media. They arrived at a decision to publish information materials with explanations on how to conduct traditional Tuvan wedding ceremony in the proper manner.

Dear friends! We congratulate you on the occasion of September 1 — Day of Knowledge and we would like to bring to your attention the latest issue of our magazine. Its size is more than 300 pages (13 author's sheets). As usual you can read and print articles separately and the whole issue as well, including in PDF. In this issue you can find an interview with the rector of Tyva State University Sergey Ondar, a review on the proceeding of an international scientific conference that was dedicated to 80^th anniversary of Tuvan written language and took place in Kyzyl in July 2010. Also you may consider some debatable articles on Tuvan scientists, research materials, reviews on books, and other creative works. We hope that this issue will be interesting and useful for you. We are waiting for new articles from you as well as your questions and suggestions!

the editor-in-chief