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Lidzhi Amikov, A Legend About the Origins of Ik, Dund and Bag Khurul


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Kovaeva, Bair 
Churyumov, Anton 

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The Ik Khurul (Big Temple) was situated in the village of Arshan’-Zel’men’, the Dund Khurul (Middle Temple) in the village of Khanata and Ungn Teryachi, and the Bag Khurul (Small Temple) near Khargata lake. Among them the Bag Khurul had the smallest territory.According to a legend, the three temples were built by three brothers (there is also a version according to which, the founders were a father and his two sons). Upon receiving the smallest territory and the smallest inheritance, the youngest brother, who had a magical power to jump on his horseback to the skies, became cross with his father. In order to lure his youngest son back home, one day the old father pretended to be ill and called all his three sons to come and visit him. ‘For me to recover’, the father asked his sons, ‘I need you to kill a 6-year old bull, and boil its meat until only a cup of soup remains’. Two older brothers could not accomplish the task, while it was the youngest brother who could, because he had extraordinary powers. Lidzhi also says that in the territory of the Ik Khurul lived the Deed Lamakhn clan. The representatives of this clan were also powerful and they could call in the rain and controlled thunder as well as other aerial phenomenon.During meetings, people from the Ik and Dund Khurul always sit in more respectable places. Those from the Bag Khurul should show their respects to the two ‘older’ clans.

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Derbet, khurul, legend, clan, temples

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Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.

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