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Asan Kaigy (the end of XIV century — 1460-ies) — a poet, a philosopher, a legendary character. Nicknamed "Asan sad" ("kaigy") due to constant thinking and reflection. Was an influential Bey of Ulug-Mohammed, in the Saray and Kazan. Asan Kaigy is the author of many of the words, the exhortations, philosophical songs. Their excerpts, which have survived to the present day, reflect the historical events of that era, the attitude of the Asan Kaiga to the events. Asan Kaiga believed that "first it is necessary to strengthen the Khan's power and strengthen the defense of the people." He reproached Zhanibek Khan: "Not thinking about the future of the Kazakh people, rejoice at the temporary success." ""The philosopher of nomadic (Nogai, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Karakalpak) people" (by definition Shokan Ualikhanov) sought to create a single state from related tribes, worried about strengthening the Kazakh khanate." The legend of Asan Kaigy are divided into three varieties: the recognition of Asana; his nickname of "sad"; the search for Asan Kaigy "Zheruyik" — "promised Land".

Biography
Asan Kaigy was one of the influential dignitaries of the Khan of the Golden Horde, later the founder of the Kazan khanate Ulu Muhammad. In the 1450s, during the political struggle in East Desht-I-Kipchak, he took the side of opponents of Abulkhair Khan — sultans Kerey (Kerey) and Zhanibek, who founded the Kazakh khanate in 1456 in the Western seven rivers. He was an ideologist of the new khanate, a supporter of the unification of all Kazakh clans and tribes.

Creativity
Asan Kaigy was the leading singer — Zhyrau, deepened in the fundamental problems of life. In this regard, the main place in his work was occupied by philosophical and didactic genres: tolgau, Terme, edification and aphorisms. Collecting his works were engaged in Oriental scholars CH. Valikhanov, G. N. Potanin, poet Mashkhur Zhusup Kopeev and others. The publication of the poetic heritage of Asan Kaiga was started in the XIX century, Soviet writers S. Seifullin, M. O. Auezov and others made a significant contribution to its study.

Myths and legends
Despite the fact that Asan Kaigy was a historical figure, he acquired in people's memory legendary and even fabulous-mythological features. So, the nickname "kaige" (sad) was associated with the fact that, caught in the Irtysh river according to the prediction of the fortune-teller the daughter of the Sultan river, designed in his wife Asan not fulfilled certain conditions and it flew away into the sky.

The most popular is the legend of the search for Asan Kaiga promised land Zher-Uyuk with abundant pastures and deep rivers, mild climate, many animals and fish, where people live without grief and need, hostility and oppression. On the fast as the wind, the camel Zhelmaya he traveled all over the world, but could not find Zher-Uyuk. This socio-utopian legend reflects the specific historical situation of the middle of the XV century, when intensified after the collapse of the Golden Horde and the White Horde of strife caused a mass migration of Kazakh clans and tribes from the East Desht-I-Kipchak to the Western seven rivers. Asan Kaigy was an adviser to one of the sultans who led this movement — Janibek, so he entered the people's consciousness as a tireless seeker of a happy land, an expression of the hopes of ordinary people for a new life.