If our ancestors had found dinosaur skeletons as often as mammoth remains, then, undoubtedly, the mythology of the Yakut people would have been full of images of dragons, and perhaps dragon would have become the central system-forming deity or the spirit of the earth. It is difficult to imagine a more vivid image for the lively, very plastic imagination of the Yakut storyteller than a lizard breathing with flame, shimmering with silver scales, hovering over the rocks.
Another interesting point is the very process of penetration into the bowels of the earth, it's like overcoming the fears preserved in the collective memory of Sakha. In the legends of Olonkho, the inhabitants of the lower world of Abaasy penetrate into the middle world through the roots of the world tree - the giant larch Aal-luk mas, and a special sign of the area of the valley of the Teette river in the reports of Soviet geologists is this tree, "a large larch with a spherical crown."