From May 13 to 15, 2024, the Aigine CRC team, together with a group of practitioners and partners of the center, at the invitation of Sanzhar Zhubanov, made a field trip to Altyn Emel National Park, located in Kazakhstan. During this visit, the group reviewed the petroglyphs of Tamgaly located in Altyn Emel and studied the large kurgans of Bes Shatyr. The group included the Manaschi Kalybek uulu Nurbek, who recited the Manas epic among the Tamgaly petroglyphs, and musician Aiday Kalmamatova, who played melodies on the traditional Kyrgyz reconstructed musical instrument Jetigen at the site. An important moment of the visit was the fire ritual performed with wishes for fruitful cooperation between Kyrgyz and Kazakh practitioners in the study and preservation of traditional knowledge related to petroglyphs and kurgans of Central Asia.
