Traditional spring festive rites of the Kazakh horse breeders
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UNESCO: Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity - 2018
URL: https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/01402
Description: Traditional spring festive rites of the Kazakh horse breeders mark the end of the old and the beginning of the new yearly horse-breeding cycle. Preceded by year-long celebrations, the rites have three main constituents: ‘Biye baylau’, the ancient ‘first milking’ rite; ‘Ayghyr kosu’, a rite for adjoining stallions in herds, and ‘Kymyz muryndyk’, the ‘first koumiss sharing’ rite. Faced with the transition in the twentieth century from a nomadic way of life to a settled one, bearers have adapted the traditional form of horse breeding to meet present-day conditions.
Country(ies): Kazakhstan
© National Hisoric, Cultural and Natural Reserve Museum 'Ulytau', Kazakhstan, 2015
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