Praise to Chinggis khaan

By O.Uuganbayar

Duo Temuzhin

Ulaanbaatariin magtaal Hel khuur

Morin tsergiin magtaal

A praise song to the cavalry

Altain magtaal

Praise to the Altai mountains with biyelgee.

Bayankhogoriin magtaal orshvoi

Pretty grand

Sounds from the Mongolian grasslands

Altain magtaal

Badmaa Naranbaatar Purevdorj Nasanbaatar Ganbold

Altain nuruu

Tes goliin magtaal

Woman throatsinging

I'm impressed

Gal shar, magtaal

Altai Khangai

Sengedorj singing in different styles of khoomii

Goviin magtaal by Dagiiranz

Boerte

Oooooh, this was deeeeelightful... A wonderful version of Altain Magtaal by Boerte accompanied by A-Sound. Bravo, bravo, bravo!

Altai Khairkhan

Awww, the baby in the following clip made my day...

A song for the winning horse

I was browsing through my mp3 files and I came upon this praise for a horse that I had never listened to. I wanted to translate it, but I got too lazy, plus in the praises they use a very poetic language, so I was not able to interpret everything. Since horses are so important in Mongolian culture, an individual horse can get a song written just for the animal. It describes its physical characteristics, how fast it is, etc... Anyway, it is dedicated to a bay horse that won the race of the older horses at the 1986 Naadam. The trainer, Khanddorj was from the Central aimag.

A praise song for a horse

Singing a magtaal:

Looking for Chinggis khaan's tomb

A praise song for Chinggis khaan by Baljinnyam and Amartuvshin
Found this very interesting article by ScienceDaily that says that some scientists are going to be looking for Chinggis khaan's tomb using non-invasive technologies.
"As outrageous as it might sound, we're looking for the tomb of Genghis Khan," says Dr. Albert Yu-Min Lin, an affiliated researcher for CISA3. "Genghis Khan was one of the most exceptional men in all of history, but his life is too often dismissed as being that of a bloodthirsty warrior. Few people in the West know about his legacy — that he united warring tribes of Mongolia and merged them into one, that he introduced the East to the West making explorations like those of Marco Polo possible, that he tried to create a central world currency, that he introduced a written language to the Mongol people and created bridges that we still use today within the realm of international relations.
He also says that, "The process of doing an archaeological dig is up to the Mongolian government." Hmmmmmmmm, I don't know, man, don't trust the govt very much.
"If I could meet Genghis Khan today, I would ask how he would have wanted to be remembered in history," Lin muses. "The fact that he died in his bed surrounded by people who loved him and never had a single General turn his back on him, the fact that the loyalty of his people is so sound it can be heard across the world — these are the marks of one of the most impressive military heroes of all time. This is an example of a leader who was ruthless, strict, disciplined, and in a lot of ways, extremely honorable. If he was able to rewrite his own history, I wonder how he'd want it heard."
Read the entire article

A praise song for a wrestler

The sound quality is very bad... So, I find this song very curious, since I never understood the Mongolian fascination with sumo. I was watching the vid thinking, isn't this a bit too much? It's kinda like a cult of personality....