{"id":436,"date":"2016-03-24T06:25:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T06:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.aigine.kg\/the-triad-of-crime-punishment-and-forgiveness-in-the-kyrgyz-epic-kojojash-aitpaeva-g\/"},"modified":"2019-12-26T11:50:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T11:50:52","slug":"the-triad-of-crime-punishment-and-forgiveness-in-the-kyrgyz-epic-kojojash-aitpaeva-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/?p=436&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The Triad of Crime, Punishment, and Forgiveness in the Kyrgyz Epic Kojojash. Aitpaeva G."},"content":{"rendered":"

The epic Kojojash is considered one of the \u201clesser\u201d Kyrgyz epics, a term used to denote its small size when compared<\/span>
to the great epic Manas, which has roughly half a million lines. Perhaps more importantly, Manas telling and<\/span>
tellers played an exclusive role in traditional Kyrgyz society and it held a special place among Kyrgyz folk works.<\/span>
Other epic folk poems are therefore somewhat affectionately termed kenje, meaning both \u201cjunior\u201d and \u201clesser,\u201d even<\/span>
though they average about ten thousand lines (Aytmatov 1996:6) and are hardly small compared to the epics of other<\/span>
peoples.<\/span>
The composition of some of these poems\u2014including Er Teshtyuk and Kojojash\u2014appears to be roughly contemporaneous<\/span>
with that of Manas. Semantic features of Kojojash allow scholars to place its composition in ancient<\/span>
times and determine its archaic nature, even though its story of a bold hunter has neither disappeared with time nor<\/span>
faded away with the past. Instead, it has attracted considerable interest among contemporary writers and artists, as<\/span>
witnessed by Tolomush Okeev\u2019s 1985 film Ak ilbirstin tukumu [The descendant of the snow leopard], stories such as<\/span>
\u201cAk keme\u201d (\u201cThe white steamboat\u201d) by Chingiz Aytmatov (1980, 1986) and \u201cKojojash mergen\u201d (\u201cKojojash the<\/span>
hunter\u201d) by K. Jusubaliyev (1991), novels such as Aytmatov and Shahanov\u2019s 1996 Askada kalgan anchynyn yiyi [Q:<\/span>
Can you supply a translation of this title? Also, do you have a first name for Shahanov?], and plays such as<\/span>
Bayirki jomok (\u201cAn ancient fairy tale\u201d) by Mar Baijiev (1975) and Kereez (\u201cThe last will\u201d) by T. Osmonov.1 [Q:<\/span>
First name for Osmonov?] This list of recent creative variations on this ancient epic raises the question of why it<\/span>
remains so attractive in contemporary Kyrgyz society and why it is used over and over again. This article is an attempt<\/span>
to rethink the ancient story and highlight some possible reasons for its continued relevance.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The epic Kojojash is considered one of the \u201clesser\u201d Kyrgyz epics, a term used to denote its small size when comparedto the great epic Manas, which has roughly half a million lines. Perhaps more importantly, Manas telling andtellers played an exclusive role in traditional Kyrgyz society and it held a special place among Kyrgyz folk …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436"}],"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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4402,"href":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/4402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aigine.kg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}