The feast of Kokotoy concludes. After old Koschoi's wrestling victory, Bok Murun sets the spear game, and Kongyr Bai of China rides out in cold iron to take the sixty piebald horses unopposed. Then the camel's knot: sixty jamby of silver sunk in a lance-deep hole, a camel tied to them, and Orongo, who strives to loose the knot with her teeth — and is honoured by Manas himself with a horse and a feast robe. Last comes the great race: the guests ride out to drive the herds home, and Manas's white falcon outruns Ach Budan, the great pacer of Joloi, and comes home first of all the horses. From the earliest written Manas, recorded from Kyrgyz singers in 1862–1869 and published by Wilhelm Radlov in 1885 (Proben der Volkslitteratur, Part V), in a fresh English translation made for KacheliTV. This is the Manas of the first singers ever written down, not the later giant tellings.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Chapters:
00:00 The Spear Game and the Camel's Knot
02:03 Manas Honours Orongo
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