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TRADITIONAL SPRING FESTIVE RITES OF KAZAKH HORSE BREEDERS
  • Manage No DI00000279
    Country Republic of Korea
    Author Yelena Khorosh Scientific Researcher, National Historic, Cultural and Natural Reserve-Museum, Ulytau
    Published Year 2017
    Language English
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Description A triad of spring festive rites—biye baylau, ayghyr kosu, and kymyz murundyk, identified and documented in Terisakkan Village in the northern outskirts of Ulytau District, Central Kazakhstan—is a testimony to nomadic culture surviving up to today. Regarded by its bearers as the most important annual festive event, it starts in early May with first spring warmth, new grass, flowers, and foals, opening a new year-round cycle of life reproduction and a new season of making koumiss, an ancient sacred drink.
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