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Legend of Korkyt.

Side tour Kazakhstan.

 “And the one whom we call music
For lack of a better name,
Will it save us?"

Akhmatova A.A. 

Culture of Kazakhstan.

The progenitor of the Kazakhs, Korkyt, once lived on the banks of the Syr Darya. He visited all parts of the world and never found eternity. Fearing that death would overtake him on the ground, he spread a wonderful carpet on the water and began to swim on it across the Syr Darya, tirelessly playing the kobyz.
The birds listened to Korkyt, stopping their flight, the animals of Sary-Arka came to the bank of the Syr Darya to listen to him, the river of time stopped its flight, the animals of the Sary-Arka came to the bank of the Syr Darya to listen to him, the river of time stopped soy flow to listen to the sounds of kobyz.
Even death could not approach him. On one of these days, the sage, spreading his carpet on the raging Syr Darya river, played the next kyui on kobyz. Having heard the truly magical sound of kobyz, 40 girls from Sary-Arka ran to listen to the music and see the performer.
Among them was a lame girl. Her peers laughed at her, begging her to stay. At first, the sound of kobyz seemed very close to them. They walked for a very long time. In the hot sands of the Karakum desert, the tornado overtook one after another.
Only a lame girl reached the Syr Darya. Seeing the magic musician, she gave up her ghost. Until now, 39 hills have survived among the dunes and near the river is the place of death of a lame girl who was walking towards beauty.

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