God Johogoi

God Johogoi — Plot

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.

• Release date
• December 10, 2015
• Runtime
• 60 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Sergey Potapov

God Johogoi — Cast

Pavel Chenyanov

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Alya Poiseeva