Geser. The Вuryat heroic epic

When the khan’s people brought those objects Geser made of the sculls of those heads the seven cups and rose on back of his winged horse to Manzan Gurme-grandmother. They both have the arkhi from those cups. When his grandma got drunk Geser opened the trunk with her keys and took out the fifteen magic treasures and got down to the Earth. The grandma having awakened found out that her treasures disappeared. She was in rage and threw those seven cups after Geser. The cups turned into the seven stars known as the Great Bear.

Then she got sorry about what she had done in rage and sprinkled with her milk in the same direction. The splashes turned into the Heaven’s stitches, or the Milky Way and Geser’s protective armor. The bator came to Gumen-khan who was still asleep. Abai Geser buried the khan’s wife and instead of her he put a black bitch. When Gumen-khan awoke he threw Geser into the dungeon. Geser cleaned the dungeon and filled it up with the treasures.

When going home he took with him the Chinese khan’s daughter.

But on the way home he told her that they would not be happy together and sent her home. Geser goes toВ the land ofВ Tebid toВ shoot through the top ofВ aВ lonely growing tree that threatened toВ grow through the eight celestial vaults. He shoots off its top with his Khangai arrow, utters an incantation for the tree toВ remain as it has been before and not toВ grow upwards and inВ breadth.

Having completed all his deeds on the Earth Geser goes back toВ the sky toВ his grandma Manzan Gurme.

He says: “I have done away with all those evil and cruel enemies, I have cut short those that grew too high, I narrowed those that grew too wide, I have done away with those with the beaks and fangs. Now we’ll live on having the three lucks each day”.

The epic shows that Nature is closely connected with the life ofВ man. Nature gives the man strength and vital energy. The co-evolution ofВ man and nature or the principle ofВ the ecological imperative, ecological ethics and ecological responsibility that are believed toВ be the main contribution ofВ the epic toВ the common knowledge ofВ the humankind cannot be overestimated.

The Image ofВ Nature inВ the Buryat heroicВ epic

AВ good deal ofВ attention is given toВ the image ofВ the Mother-Earth inВ the Buryat myths. InВ the old days they worshipped the Earth that gives everything toВ the man including life and everything returns back toВ her.