Talk:Epic of Manas

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)
 * NOT fake! Are you joking? Yes, Manas was first published by Vasily Radlov (= Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff). Böri (talk) 09:18, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

What is it about
This article says nothing about what the epic is, apart from it being about "Manas". It would be nice if there were a summary of the events of Manas' life, who he was, what great things he did, etc.69.95.240.10 (talk) 16:54, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * True! It's about the fight between the Kyrgyz people and Kalmuks. Böri (talk) 12:47, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Putting up NPOV
I'm slapping an NPOV tag on this article. It's really difficult to read when it talks about how it's 'regarded as the epitome of oral creativity' and its 'importance is not inferior (to whom?) to that of the Homeric epic'. This seems to me to be the writing of a nationalist Kyrgyz, and while it's fine to want to extol it, this article's not the place for that. Kielbasa1 (talk) 12:11, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

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