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Sacred sites
Ak chachuu is an ancient ritual of using milk, flour, kefir, butter or other white products for sprinkling or watering places in a holy place, adding to a sacred fire during a fire ritual. In other words, this ritual is performed as a sign of respect and reverence for earth, water, fire and air. Traditionally, this ritual is done to remove snakes from the house, garden by paving a path-direction with white.
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Naming the child
Since ancient times, on the occasion of the birth of a baby, the Kyrgyz have had a number of actions filled with joy. Particular importance was attached to the naming of the name - "at koyuu". It was believed that the name of the child should be given either by the most respected person or the first one who saw the child, since the name has strong magical properties and can influence the fate of a person. When giving the name of the newborn, they carefully examined, paid attention to the characteristic features and then gave a name that should correspond to the child.
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Yurt
Preserving and passing on craftsmanship from century to century, the yurt is not only housing, but also a creative workshop for folk art. The yurt has largely embodied all types of arts and crafts. Meeting all the requirements of everyday life, she carried both aesthetic and ritual principles.
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Tush-Kiyiz
Tush kiyiz is a wall carpet, a wonderful example of Kyrgyz decorative and applied art. It is an embroidered panel of cloth, satin, satin, silk or other fabric, framed on top and on the sides by a wide strip of black velvet, to which one, two or three triangles with fringes are usually sewn.
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Manaschy and listeners
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Performing small epics
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Scene from the film made by the small epic _Kojojash_
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Performing dastans
Because of the interaction with epic culture and performing arts of the Central Asian people, the Kyrgyz oral art emulated and developed widely the ‘dastan’ genre. Such genre is a folk refinement of heroic epics, legends, and storylines. Fantastic and adventurous situations with sophisticated plots are described in them. There are various dastans as ‘Ak Moour’, ‘Munduk, Zarlyk’ or ‘Gulgaaky’ which describe some historical events, reveal a heroic theme as well as displays small forms of folklore - blessings, thanksgivings, catchwords and slogans, proverbs and sayings, thus becoming the repository of popular wisdom and epic richness. Numerous works demonstrate that the dastan genre became very popular.
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Performing akyns
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Sanjyrachy telling Sanjyra for the inventory
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Blessings _Alkysh_
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Improvisation, tokmo-akyn, Issyk Kul region, Kyrgyzstan
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