KIDIRBAY AND HIS GENEALOGY IN THE EPIC CYCLE OF THE FORTY HEROES

Abstract

The issue of serial epics has not been the subject of extensive research to date. Thus, despite the fact that the Uzbek version of the Koroghlu epic, the Mana epic, the Tulumbiy epic, and other epics have created a series of epics, there are no detailed studies about them. Apparently, this is due to the lack of in-depth study of the basic nature of the series. Otherwise, the poetic expression of such a chain genealogical system could`t fail to arouse interest.
The series of epics about the Forty Batirs is considered the largest series, as it itself includes three larger series: Anshibay Batir and his descendants, Karadon Batir and his descendants, Epics about different batirs. But along with this, a branch of that series is Kidirbay and his descendants, which is not studied as a separate genealogy for various reasons. One of these reasons is that the place of the epics in the repertoires of the jirav-tellers in the sequence of arrangement is different. That`s, the jirav-teller determines which epic comes after what based on the end of the epic. After telling eight or ten epics, a new lineage cycle begins. Thus, the jirav-teller determines for himself how many genealogies he will mention in the epic series about the Forty Batir.
The epics included in the series Kidirbay and his descendants are sometimes told inde-pendently, and sometimes within the series Epics about various heroes. In fact, each of the heroes of all these series, that`s, the epic about the Forty Batirs, belongs to the genealogy of Edigey, the leader whose name is inscribed in golden letters in the history of the Golden Horde, the founder of the Nogai Horde. Therefore, the main link of the genealogy is the epic Edigey created about him. This means that all the heroic epics created in the Middle Ages in the Golden Horde and before the collapse of the Hordes that followed it (the Great Horde, the Nogai Horde, etc.) are included in this series.
It should be noted that, despite individual studies of the epics included in the cycle Kidirbay and his descendants, the cycle as a whole was not included in the study. In general, when studying the epic cycle about the Forty Batirs, it is sometimes not mentioned. Here, by including the Kidirbay and His Descendants cycle in our study, we aim to emphasize its important place in the overall epic cycle of the Forty Batirs.