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Kyrgyz · October 13, 2026 · 21:17

Manas — The Earliest Recordings — Part 2 of 31 (Almambet Comes to Manas, Part One)

Manas — The Earliest Recordings — Part 2 of 31 (Almambet Comes to Manas, Part One)
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Envy undoes the friendship at Kokcho's court: the Forty slander Almambet, the gift of the piebald horse is asked and refused, and Almambet rides out under a great oath. Ak Erkech pleads too late. Meanwhile Manas dreams of a falcon and a hound, and Ajy Bai reads the dream: a prince's son is coming. 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.

Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.

Chapters:

00:00 The Slander of the Forty

02:50 The Piebald Horse

06:44 Ak Erkech Intervenes

12:16 The Dream of the Staffs

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