PRACTICAL METHODS OF HOLDING AND PLAYING KARAKALPAK PEOPLE’S NATIONAL HORSE GAMES
Keywords:
national horse games, sports, family celebrations, public holidays, kokmar (stuffed sheep – ilaq), horse racing, cantering race, horse breeding.Abstract
The article describes Karakalpak people’s national horse games as the important kind of sports which play a significant role in the upbringing young generation in physically strong state and developing their future intelligence. The article deals with explaining practical methods of holding and playing our national horse games and circumstances how they had been developed historically and reached our times. The classification of Karakalpak national horse games are based on customs, traditions and rituals of our ancestors established during the long period of their existence and cultural developing. In the paper, we have analyzed about twenty kinds of national horse games played as a sport at various folk family celebrations and public holidays. The paper states that some kinds of horse sport, for instance, as hunting on horseback with birds of prey (eagles, falcons) had been occurred as vital needs of our earlier ancestors. Horse games as a sport have been developed with the appearance of tribal communities, social groups of people, khanates and whole nation.
