{"id":1012,"date":"2020-02-24T05:43:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T23:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.aigine.kg\/?page_id=1012"},"modified":"2020-02-27T22:25:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T16:25:22","slug":"sacred-geography-of-kyrgyzstan-shuduman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/?p=1012&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Geography of Kyrgyzstan: Shuduman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shuduman is one of the unique, beautiful and untouched by humans sacred sites. Here tender flowers grow along the cold snowdrifts. Shuduman hot springs are located among the mountain tops, four to five kilometers from the Zardaly village in Batken province.\u00a0<\/span>The sacred site is visited only by the most dedicated pilgrims or those with urgent need. Pilgrims\u00a0reach the hot springs through difficult, sometimes dangerous, mountain paths to make sacrifice rituals, recite verses from the Qur\u2019an, pray, and make tilek[1]. All pilgrims take a bath in the springs resembling stone-swimming pools with healing waters.\u00a0<\/span>Hot springs originate about 100-150 meters above the stone spring pools. Water flows through the stone walls and steam is coming out of it as if from a tandyr[2]. The water is higher than 70 degrees Celsius. Sacred site guardians say that they used to boil lungs of sacrificed sheep in these waters.\u00a0<\/span>Downstream, the water splits into dozen streams, which merge and split up before flowing into the river. Pilgrims can only bathe in the natural stone swimming pools because of the water\u2019s heat. Steam rises from the stones in a 15-meter radius from the water source. Stones demarcate this area. It is covered and called parilka[3]. People enter, sweat, and cure their illnesses. It is said that that sea-like noise can be heard inside the parilka.\u00a0<\/span>Curative waters exist in three other springs located on the way to Shuduman. Pilgrims make a pilgrimage to these three springs as well. There is also lonely tree surrounded by a stone fence, and it is believed that a body of an unknown person was buried here. Therefore, this place is called sheyit mazary \u2013 a place of burial of an unknown person. Here, the water channels and the stones are yellow because of the high level of sulfur in the water. Like the water of Shuduman, the water of these springs is believed to cure warts and sores.\u00a0<\/span>The Shuduman hot springs and the air in that area have healing properties for many illnesses. Those who suffer from iron deficiency and asthma find cure here. Also the water heals people with venereal diseases.\u00a0<\/span>According to local people, in the past, scientists from Moscow conducted experiments on the water quality and concluded that this water has unique curative properties that don\u2019t exist anywhere in the world. During the Soviet times tourist used to visit this sacred site.<\/span><\/p>\n

[1] Tilek [Kyrgyz] \u2013 a wish [ed.]<\/span><\/p>\n

[2] Tandyr [Kyrgyz] \u2013 round clay facility for baking bread at home [ed.]<\/span><\/p>\n

[3] Parilka [Russian] \u2013 derives from a Russian word and means \u201ca place where one can steam\u201d [ed.]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shuduman is one of the unique, beautiful and untouched by humans sacred sites. Here tender flowers grow along the cold snowdrifts. Shuduman hot springs are located among the mountain tops, four to five kilometers from the Zardaly village in Batken province.\u00a0The sacred site is visited only by the most dedicated pilgrims or those with urgent …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11671,"href":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/11671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}