Olonkho. P. A. Oyunsky

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      Stayed there shouting

      And burst into tears;

      Their cry was heard

      In the Upper World,

      Their grief was known

      In the Under World…

      The relatives of Ala Buhrai

      From the Under World,

      The descendants of Nuken Buhrai⁹⁹

      Who were miscreants

      Trampled down

      Relatives of Aiyy-Khan,

      The kind-hearted tribes

      With the reins on their backs,

      Straight-nosed and front-faced;

      The fire in their sacred hearth went out,

      Their warm home was ruined…

      The sons of Arsan Dolai, the demons,

      Broke the orders of the Upper Deities…

      Then the Deities decided

      To send down

      To the Middle World

      The warrior

      Nurgun Botur the Swift,¹⁰⁰

      With the fleet of foot black horse,

      Born standing on the border

      Of the clear, white sky,

      They got him as ready as an arrow,

      They fitted him up as a bow,

      To defend the Sun tribes,

      To protect the Aiyy kin.

      If you want to know who was sent to be a shield

      Here is his story…

      Since his childhood he promised,

      Since the time he could barely sit

      That by making a sharp wooden spear

      He would trample the Upper World,

      Since the time he started crawling

      He threatened

      He would rock the Under World,

      Crushing it with his legs…

      He roared violently,

      They say…

      ¹Traditional epithet, part of the so called ‘epic formula’ that would appear regularly in the description of the earth, that is compared to a sewn birch bark container or bucket with rims to strengthen it. ‘Rim, brim’ would also imply the mountainous edges of the country. The epic number ‘eight’ conveys the idea of infinity; according to some scholars, it could also be the directions: north, south, east, west, north-east, north-west, south-east, south-west

      ²There are three worlds in the Sakha cosmology: Upper, Under and Middle

      ³Front-faced, two-legged, two-eyed, etc. – traditional characteristics of human beings

      ⁴Ability to foresee – intellect

      ⁵In the world of demons everything is perverse, even their clothes

      ⁶The Lord of the Under World

      ⁷His wife

      ⁸Traditional epithet highlighting the kinship between the Urankhai-Sakha people and Sunny Deities. It points out that the Sakha still live according to the rules of their gods

      ⁹The Sunny Deities from the Upper World

      ¹⁰The Lord of Ajarais – demons – from the Upper World

      ¹¹His wife

      ¹²One of the layers of the sky

      ¹³Utugen, nyuken etugen, tuptur etugen, is represented in Sakha as a name of the Under World, hell, the place where monsters live

      ¹⁴Toyuk – a traditional folk song of a melancholic character

      ¹⁵Sakha believe that their World, like an island of relative peace and stability, lies in an ocean and is surrounded by water. Oceans and water have negative connotation for the Sakha

      ¹⁶Baigal – large water basin or ocean

      ¹⁷An olonkho epic performer

      ¹⁸Title or way of addressing a rich, powerful man, close to the status of lord or knight

      ¹⁹Demons from the Under World. Another name is Ajarais

      ²⁰Name the Sakha/Yakut people use for themselves

      ²¹Here and below – the names of epic performers who really existed

      ²²The Supreme Deity, The White Lord of the Upper World and the Universe

      ²³1) Abundance, favour, benevolence, grace; or 2) Energy. Often used as a metaphor for food

      ²⁴Title or way of addressing a rich, powerful woman, close to the status of Lady

      ²⁵Aiyy – divine

      ²⁶A shamaness.

      ²⁷One of the demons

      ²⁸One of the demons’ lords, ‘suor’ means ‘raven’

      ²⁹A dale or valley usually with a lake in the middle.

      ³⁰Demoness, evil spirit of the ocean

      ³¹Epic performer

      ³²Epic performer

      ³³Her husband, the great lord of demons

      ³⁴Epic performer

      ³⁵Epic performer

      ³⁶Abyss – entrance to the Under World

      ³⁷Abyss – entrance to the Under World

      ³⁸A great demoness, wife of the Lord of the Under World

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