The Oirit-Altaian child-birth cults are quite diverse. The northern Altaian tribes observe this ritual since most ancient times. The older relative of the woman in childbirth is always to be near her and to keep pronouncing the wishings. To preserve the woman's and the child's lives from evil spirits, this woman is to make rag dolls called emengeder. These dolls are believed to have a protecting power. The dolls are put at the head of the woman's bed. The Oirot-Teleuts and the Shors connect the history of these dolls with the legend of Oirot Shunu-Khan: "…When it was time for Khantaichy's wife to give birth to her child - the future Shunu-Khan, the bogatyr - she asked to give her the dolls she had used to play with when she was a girl. The dolls sent by her father were alive. She played with the dolls and that eased her birth-pains. Thus, with the help of these dolls she painlessly brought her son into the world - Shunu-Khan, the bogatyr…" That's why all women going to give birth to their first-borns, take emengeder from their parents' homes in memory of the revived dolls of Shunu-Khan's mother. Addresses to emengeder:
You, holy and respected,
Sitting in the front corner,
Brought with dowry…
With beads hanging o­n your chests,
With feathers stuck into your head,
With blood-red faces
Looking like white paper
Spread from Taada-Khan
Clothed in Taada's silk coats
Having saddled Taada's camels-horses,
Having parted from Kongudai,
Please, don't swear angrily,
Let's have o­ne common language,
Let your tramp be strong,
Please, don't frighten the young sprout
Be attentive to the request
Feel my prayer!
The honorary mission of alkysh-proposing o­n the occasion of child-birth is given to Godmother - kin ene. She also gives the newborn child a name.
Godmother is considered a highly respected person among the Oirot-Altaians as well as among other peoples. She is as respected as o­ne's own mother; she is to share all the troubles with the mother. She has the right to bless the newborn child.
Child, be faster than a hare,
Be fatter than a ram,
Let the o­ne having power, not to beat you,
Let the o­ne having tongue, not to curse you,
Let the mountain Ak-Syuri be your father,
Let the tempestuous river be your mother.

The Oirot-Altaian hunters' cult is expressed in a special respectful treatment of wild animals. It was believed that animals' spirits were equal to those of men. Each Oirot-Altaian clan-seok had its own founder-ancestor - an animal or a bird, whose spirits guard and protect them from evil spirits and various dangers. Therefore, everyone treated his seok's animal or bird respectfully. For example, the Tyolyoses carefully treated deer when hunting. They did not shoot the leader and female animals that were to calve in spring.
Before cutting the carcass, they asked the deer's spirits and the Master of Taiga for forgiveness. When cutting the carcass, they carefully treated the place of bullet- or arrow-hit. This part was left for the Master.
There existed various taboos for hunters. To shoot the most beautiful deer with the biggest horns meant to shoot the Master of Taiga, which might have resulted in a disaster or the hunter's or his relative's death. The same concerned many other wild animals.
Not to cause malice of a bear's, a wolf's, a lynx's, a panther's spirits, they were given other honorable names - "Abaai", "Abaga", "Shyulyuzyun", etc. In fairy-tales they appeared as the tsars or leaders of the whole Altaian animal kingdom.
A special ritual is carried out when hunting an otter. A hunter might shoot o­nly o­ne otter in a year or even more than a year. The quarry - otter was left at a special prepared place, where the hunter hunted, for 3 days and 3 nights. Otter's spirit "contains" 10 people's spirits, i.e. 10 lives, which are to leave the otter during these three days and three nights and go to taiga. That was the way for the hunter to guarantee safety for himself and his family. Otter's skin is cut into stripes, that are used to edge the national fur hat, sewed of fox's pads, musk-deer's, lynx's, sable's paws. o­nly old healthy women having children were chosen to cut these stripes, which are to be 2 fingers wide. Not every woman dares to do that. If there were disasters or woman's relatives died during the several previous years, - this woman wouldn't agree to cut the stripes and even wouldn't take them.
The Altaian hunters' cult is so diverse, that it requires a thorough research and description. There are various charms, wishings, taboos, tokens, dreams, etc., which all together make an integral system - a part of cultural and spiritual and educational process in the society. The loss of these values in the Soviet period caused poaching and mass extermination of many wild animals.