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.
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Sergey Potapov Director · Zhanna Skryabina Screenplay Moisey Kobyakov Composer
First release December 10, 2015 · Produced in Russia · Original title Дьөһөгөй Айыы
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Sakhafilm
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Russia
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Original title
Дьөһөгөй Айыы
Original language
Russian
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Russian
Release dates
Russia · December 10, 2015
Limited theatrical
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Canada
August 8, 2017 · Premiere · Montreal First Peoples' Festival
Germany
February 12, 2017 · Premiere · Berlin International Film Festival
United Kingdom
June 23, 2017 · Premiere · Border Crossings' Origins Festival
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