Mtsnobari

"In the mountains of Georgia, where they graze their flocks of sheep, there exists a special profession-that of mtsnobari, or diviner.

His function is to carry stray lambs back to their mothers in the middle of the enormous flocks.

The mtsnobari infallibly carries each suckling lamb to the right mother, in a flock of hundreds of animals, finding her by means of a particular "sense of smell". He has nothing to help him except the answering voices of ewe and lamb. However, if you take into account the fact that entire flock is bleating, that is clearly not going to simplify things much."

7 February, 1976
Time Within Time - The Diaries 1970-1986
Andrei Tarkovsky