ASAN KAYGY

ASAN KAYGY, Asan Ata was the 15th century yyrau. No documented information about his life has been preserved. Supposedly, lived during the reign of Ulu-Mukhammad, a Golden Horde Khan. The Kazakh version of the Aysa, the Son of Amat epic informs the reader that A.K. lived in the Urals, in the valley of the Agidel River. Some literary critics believe that A.K. was the yyray of the Turkic peoples, who were in the 15—16th centuries under the rule of the Nogay Horde. By the beginning of the 20th century gatherers of the Bashkir folklore recorded more than 20 works, the author of which was identified as A.K. In the Turkic language, the Song of Asan­aty kubair was published in Kazan in Five Stories book (1911). Based on the comparative analysis of the Kazakh, Karakalpak and Bashkir folk texts, it is suggested that A.K. is the author of the following kubairs: Idel is Iur Motherland, and Dignity of Motherland is the Dignity of Batyrs.