The telling
The shaman climbs to the sky by the tree. In Altai telling Ulukayın's branches number the layers of the sky, and on them hang the kut of children not yet born.

The Middle World · Birch
Roots in the underworld, trunk in the middle world, crown in the sky — the one thing binding all three.
The shaman climbs to the sky by the tree. In Altai telling Ulukayın's branches number the layers of the sky, and on them hang the kut of children not yet born.