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The melody you are listening to is an oral epic folk poetry /tuuli/ created by the bayad people, who are one of the Mongol tribes, residing in western Mongolia. This epic poem is included into the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding.
In the 1960-ties Hungarian diplomat L.Kadar met with storyteller Uvkhiin Bat. Kadar let Bat tell the epics “Bum-Erdene”, “Dalain Shar Bodon (Yellow Boar of the Sea)” and “Tusheet Khaanii Khovguun Khuleg-Erdene (Khuleg-Erdene, the son of Tusheet Khaan)” for a period of a month and recorded them to a magnetic tape. Several days ago, Mr Kadar personally handed over this rare piece of art that hasn’t even been kept by the Mongolians to the Mongolian scholars.
The epics told by the storyteller Uvkhiin Bat reflect the original features of Mongolian epic poetry. The scholars say that those features were lost around 500-600 years ago as the epics started to be influenced by the style of telling religious chants in the times of introduction of Lamaism to Mongolia.
A Russian Mongolist Vladimirtsov is the one who brought the global attention to the Mongolian epic poetry. The research works he had done in the beginning of the 20th century while spending two years in Uvs aimag alongside the storyteller Balchin not only had made Mongolian epics world-famous, but also raised his prestige. Telling epics is believed to amuse the lords of mountains and rivers, expel illnesses and sufferings, and to open the door to wealth.

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