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Manas — The Earliest Recordings — Part 1 of 31 (The Birth of Manas)
Description
The hero's birth and first deeds, and the opening of the tale of Almambet: how the Oirot prince heard the teaching at Lake Issyk-Kul, read the Koran with his own eyes, defied his father's house, and rode out to Kokcho, on his way to Manas. 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 Birth of Manas
04:52 How Almambet Came to Manas
09:47 Almambet Reads the Koran
16:47 The Feast of Welcome
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