Geser. The Вuryat heroic epic

The sons of the tengris (heavens) begin to fight. Bukhe Beligte wins the victory over his adversaries. He throws down Atai Ulan’s sons onto the Earth where they turn into the evil Sharablin khans.

After the defeat ofВ his sons and warriors Atai Ulan again sends the tengris ofВ the mist, dusk and gloom, hoar-frost. But Bukhe Beligte meets them with the nine tengris ofВ wind and flame. Khan Khurmas and Atai Ulan join the battle. Khan Khurmas, having learned that the soul ofВ his adversary is inВ the metatarsus ofВ the big finger ofВ his right foot, strikes it and thus beats the enemy.

The defeated Atai Ulan-tengri is thrown upon the Earth where the various monsters come out ofВ the different parts ofВ his body.

In the land of the three Tugeshin khans there comes the time of the misfortunes, mortality. The people die, the rivers and grass dry out and fade away. The shamaness Sharagshakhan makes the offerings of the sick people’s tears to the western deities, namely, to the head of the 55 tengris Khan Khirmas-tengri, to Shutegte-burkhan and Manzan Gurme- grandmother.

Thus she informs the tengris ofВ the misfortunes on the Earth. Khan Khirmas asks inВ turn his sons toВ get down toВ the Earth but only Bukhe Beligte agrees toВ go down on condition that his father should give him all he asksВ for.

Bukhe Beligte turns Naran Gokhon-maid into aВ lark. He calls up the dreams toВ Sargal Noyon-khan about the lark with the magic letters on the chest and the back.

If they caught that lark the Tugeshin khans would prosper. The khans shoot with an arrow and get down the lark that turns into Naran Gohon beauty. They marry her to Sengelen – khan and drive them away having first crippled her.

Then Naran Gohon gives birth toВ the children: the son Jasa Mergen and the three daughters. They are born from the top ofВ her head, her armpit and the navel. They rise toВ the Sky. The last child is born inВ the usual way as all the earthly children.

That was the future Geser who now got born on the Earth. That’s how he descended down from the Heavens onto the Earth to save the people from all kinds of misfortune.

Being still a child Geser punishes the evil creatures: a black mouse as big as a three-year-old bull, a yellow wasp (оса) as big as a horse’s head, a mosquito or a gnat as big as a horse, sends down into the sea the seven black and nine yellow devils.