Traditional Mongolian Music Vs. The Hu

After being introduced to The Hu here recently, I checked out the original folk style. I don't remember ever hearing Mongolian throat singing before, and I haven't decided what I think about it yet.

Here are two songs about Chinggis Khaan (apparently the Mongolian transliteration for the name), one traditional and one by The Hu.



The lyrics below the second video introduced me to Tengrism, a Central Asian religion which apparently is undergoing a revival since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Interesting stuff.

8 comments:

Gringo said...

The first video reminded me of an epic poem set to music. I could see Homer doing the same, 2500 years ago. When my Montana cousins were visiting me, I showed them a digital photo of Mongolia, of a rainbow illuminating a semi-arid grassland with a hill far in the background. Not surprisingly,it reminded them of Montana.

Early on I felt uncomfortable with the second one. Upon seeing the end, with Genghis and the galloping hordes, I concluded that the video's creators intended my initial discomfort- it set up discomfort upon seeing the intimidating galloping horse.

Tom said...

Yeah, the first one does have that storytelling feeling.

Interesting comment on the second; I also felt the discomfort, but the connection for me was more historical in the reputation of Genghis Khan. It's an aggressive song, in any case.

Gringo said...

"it set up discomfort upon seeing the intimidating galloping horse."
Correction> "it set up discomfort upon seeing the intimidating galloping horde.".

My discomfort began with the rock drummer and guitarist. What began as a story morphed into a celebration of power.

raven said...

The headstock of the Mongolian guitar? was made in the form of an axe head- the upper bout was decorated with a horn recurve bow shape...

MikeD said...

I find the general discomfort fascinating. I didn't get that from this video at all. Now one of their other videos gave me a very creepy Mongol-supremacist vibe that while not truly threatening, because... I mean they're not going to go out and conquer anyone today, still is weird and disturbing. But from this one, it was more of a tribute to a historical figure who was actually quite praiseworthy for the era. Temujin (the man who would become Khan of Khans) rose from adversity that would have crushed the spirit of most of humanity, defied the odds, rose to power, installed an actual meritocracy for military advancement (at no small cost to his own power base), revolutionized mounted warfare, and very nearly conquered most of Eurasia in his lifetime. Even Alexander the Great, for all his accomplishments built his empire on a strong base left to him by his father (on an epic scale, it's true, and I mean to take nothing away from the Macedonian's accomplishments), whereas Temujin literally had nothing. It's really quite a fascinating piece of history.

ymarsakar said...

I always wanted to wrestle in Mongolia's village traditional wrestling games. These guys still wrangle camels and horses by hand. Thisi s where the "stirrup" came from, although not geographically there due to steppe migration.

ymarsakar said...

Ghenghis Khan was harvested to negative 4th density at his end. That is why his tomb location is a bit hard to get.

He works as a sort of supply clerk in the forces of Satan/Orion right now.

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/could-you-be-related-genghis-khan/

In order to be harvested to 4th density negative, one must shut off their heart chakra and polarize 95% towards the anti creation ideology and philosophy: Crusaders against the Divine.

I won't get into the exact philosophy of the negative path, although people are free to ask me.

It involves using the lower chakras as energy centers, such as root and sexuality, combined with the indigo intelligence chakra, evading the heart chakra entirely, to create manifested divine power on Earth. And his success demonstrated how well that works. It is a power equal to the angels or archangels.

Those who have ancestors that fought the Mongols, know the fear of GK via their DNA heritage. And those who polarize positive, understand just where the Ghenghis Khan "vibe" is at.

Some people may wonder, if such evil is allowed to run rampant around, where are the good guys at? Well, the good guys obey something called the Prime Directive of non interference due to free will clause. If they intervened too much, it would end up like YHVH or another Divine Flood. Reset the human race too many times... we don't know what will happen then. Thus Ghenghis Khan is allowed to do whatever they want. Your American child pedos and elite rulers are allowed to do whatever they want.

And in the end, they will have to pay the consequences one way or another, and get their just rewards. This is neither Hell nor Heaven, but Eternity. The evil get evil for eternity. The good get more harmony for eternity. And then they flip.

ymarsakar said...

This is also where Conan's often repeated quote directs people toward.