God Johogoi

God Johogoi

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 10, 2015

Runtime

1h 0m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Дьөһөгөй Айыы

Production Companies

Sakhafilm

Director

Sergey Potapov

Description

Every year the Sakha people celebrate the festival of summer - Ysekh. This ethnic holiday celebrates the Aiyy deities and the revival of nature; it embraces ritual prayers, plenty of rich food and koumiss, dancing, folk games, and horse races. Jehegey Aiyy is a serene deity worshiped by people. Jehegey gave horses to humans, and now is the heavenly patron of horse raising. In the majority of recorded songs and legends Jehegey is a male creature, but in some of them it has feminine gender and is called sylgy aiyhyta. According to legends it sometimes appears to people as a loudly neighing light-colored stallion.