Talk:Epic of Manas
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Is Manas Fake?
Question: I always thought that the stories of Manas were fake, that they weren't "traditional" pieces pursée. What I thought was that the stories of Manas were fabricated by Soviet scholars in the 1930s because the Kyrgyz people lacked an official "history". As a result, becuase of this gerrymandering that was typical of Joseph Dzjugavishili-Stalin's tactics, the stories of Manas were forced down the Kyrgyz people's throats and were forced to accept it as gospel {as well as the "Cyrillicization" of their Turkic language which I'm assuming used the Arabic script), thus resulting in the cult of Manas. Is this true, or am I simply going mad?
If you want to know what I'm talking about, one of the back issues of Passport to World Band Radio (I don't know which one) had a series of articles by Indian correspondent Mansoji Guha on radio in Central Asia, one of which mentions Kyrgyzstan and the fabrication of the Manas stories was listed as a sidebar.
Posted by: Daniel Blanchette, Monday, 26 September, 2005, 22:25 EDT
It's false, because "Manas" were first published in 1885 in Russia by professor V.V.Radloff.Greenvert 11:41, 2 December 2005 (UTC)