The Giant Ulugh Turq

told by ERKISKU

 

In Pay-Küz was a remarkable thing.
      There was an old woman. She had seven daughters. Every day, the old woman used to get up, milk her cow, pour the milk, ferment her yogurt, and drink her tea.
      As she was to drink tea - there was a bunch of needle grass at the far end of the village - she used to perform a tea libation into this bunch of needle grass.
      One day, the old woman was unable to go, and she told one of her daughters to perform the libation. The daughter's body was unclean. She took the tea, and poured it into the bunch of needle grass.
      The shaman's giant Ulugh Turq, who never woke up, awakened. He rose up, cried 'oto!', and flew off to heaven.

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The Giant Ulugh Turq was told by Erkisku, 1913, and published in Malov, S. E. 1967. Jazyk zheltyx ujgurov. Teksty i perevody. Moscow. 147, no. 133.

The expression 'unclean body' means menstruation.

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