Geser. The Вuryat heroic epic

In a word, there was a joyous festival which might be called the “yokhor” in the Buryat language.

InВ the western part ofВ the sky there live the fifty five tengris, their head being Khan Khormusta. He has the three sons, the middle ofВ them being future Geser. InВ the eastern part ofВ the sky there live the forty four tengris, the head over them being Atai-Ulan, who has the three sons too. Living inВ the middle place ofВ the sky is Segen-Sebdeg tengri. He has aВ daughter Seseg-Nogon, she is aВ beauty and sews skillfully.

The eldest sons of the heads of both the skies eagerly wish to take her as wife. The western and eastern deities want to get possession of the middle sky, there bursts out a quarrel between them. In the battle that followed the western tengris win. Having cut Atai-Ulan into the pieces they throw them down to the earth that causes the people the numerous troubles and misfortune. From the parts of Atai-Ulan’s body there appear the various monsters: from the chest – Gal-Durme khan, from the thigh – Lodsogoldoi mangadkhai (monster), from the neck vertebrae – Sherem-Minata devil, from the stomach – Mitagar Khara Mila, from the liver – Ganga Bured khan, from the right hand – Abarga Sesen mangadkhai, from the left hand – Asurai Shara mangadkhai, from the right leg – Khitad Gumen khan, from the left leg – fourty-eyed Dume, from the kidneys – the Edir sagan tree and the spotted deer Taril Eren, from the lungs – Black Guma Mitan who had a thousand of the white eyes. Apart from them, there were the other monsters that caused the innumerable troubles, such as Arkhan Khara devil, fifteen-headed Asurai mangadkhai, ninety-five-headed Yenkhoboi mangadkhai.

In order to save the people from all the misfortunes Khan Khormusta’s middle son Erkhe Beligte (future Geser) gets down to the earth. To complete his mission he is to be re-born on the Earth because being of the celestial origin he is too pure and sacral for the earthly life.

He gets born into aВ poor childless family ofВ an old man Sengel and an old woman Sengelen. The old woman gets pregnant inВ aВ magic way and gives birth toВ the three children. The two daughters get up onto the sky, remaining is the son who is far from being nice-looking and stains all around at that. He gets the name ofВ Nyukhata Sura (Snot Sura). He does aВ lot ofВ trouble toВ his elderly parents.