About the book: year / "The tale about how they went to Tag Mama and saved the Amur leopards" In this tale collected heroes of the Udege epic - Seveki (lord of everything), Tagu mama (Seveki's wife - the keeper of the world), Onku (lord of forests, animals, birds), Sugdzya (lord of rivers, lakes, river fish), Ganikhi (lord of the ocean and seas ), the killer whale Temu, the dragon, the spirit Kusemyanka, Garganchu-Magda... they all met on the way of Valerik and two Amur leopards - Bumba (Udeg. Fatty) and Galini (Udeg. Winner), who set off to save the Amur leopards. To save the leopards, Valerik, Galini, Bumba must find the Upper World in order to close the door between the world of the living and the dead and ask Tagu Mama for forgiveness for her careless attitude towards the leopards. And all so that there are more Amur leopards on Earth. And since no one knows where the door between the worlds is, they have to go for an answer to Onk - the lord of forests and animals, and then to Sugdza - the lord of rivers, lakes and lake fish, find the mystical river Engdekit, swim to its source, there, near the tree of the world with the souls of people in the form of tits, find Taga’s mother, bring her the most beautiful flower - the Lotus of the lord of the seas Ganikha, returning the magical blue crystal hidden in Lake Khanka by the dragon, and only then do they manage to enlist the favor of Seveki and close the door between the worlds so that leopards could not easily escape through it to another world.