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Akbuzat
Sign in to saveAkbuzat (, from "blue-grey" and ат "horse") is the most famous kubair (epic poem) of the Bashkirs. It shows similarity to other epics (notably the story of Pegasus). The epic is also associated with the ice era ancient myth that involved the Shulgan-Tash Cave. It is part of the cycle of heroic legends involving the Ural-batyr and his descendants.
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Akbuzat (, from "blue-grey" and ат "horse") is the most famous kubair (epic poem) of the Bashkirs. It shows similarity to other epics (notably the story of Pegasus). The epic is also associated with the ice era ancient myth that involved the Shulgan-Tash Cave. It is part of the cycle of heroic legends involving the Ural-batyr and his descendants.
== Background == The recording of Akbuzat is attributed to the Baskir poet and folklorist Mukhametsha Abdrakhmanovich Burangoluv. He obtained information about the epic during a 1910 expedition to Itkul volost in the now Baimaksky district of the Bashkortostan. The researcher reportedly took more than a decade to process the Akbuzat materials, which he received from sesen-poets or singers-storytellers. This can be partly attributed to the pressure Burangoluv received from the Bolshevik regime. During World War II, the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party accused him of distorting the history of the Bashkir people.