12. Madách International Theatre Meeting

Kaltash, in the mythology of the Khanty people, is the mother-goddess who gives out souls. She grants a soul to everyone who is born. By the will of Kaltash, a baby receives the soul of an ancestor. Without a soul, neither a man nor a bird can live long—they take two steps and turn to clay. Each soul has its own path to a new life, its own journey. Thus, Kaltash sits at the foot of the seven sacred birches, Kaltash-Ekva, playing with souls, passing them through her hands. And to each soul, like a mother, she sings her song. "Song to the Children of the North Sounding" is a performance dedicated to the men of the North who went to the front during the Great Patriotic War. It is a song that resonates through time, a song for the souls that remained in foreign lands. Let them hear their native melodies, walk the long road of memory, and finally return home to be reborn in their descendants.