Aichürök

A luminous swan-maiden (peri), daughter of Akun Khan, betrothed to Semetey before his birth by Manas's vow. She transforms into a white swan to seek her destined husband, aids him against his rivals, and after his fall safeguards the unborn Seitek — the thread by which the lineage survives.

Children

• Seitek

Domains

• transformation
• loyalty
• prophecy

Relations

• mother of: SeitekSayakbai Karalaev variant, Semetey — 'The Marriage of Semetey to Aichürök'; A. T. Hatto, The Manas of Wilhelm Radloff (1990), on the swan-maiden motif (scholarly)
• spouse: Semetey

Sources

• existence: Sayakbai Karalaev variant, Semetey — 'The Marriage of Semetey to Aichürök'; A. T. Hatto, The Manas of Wilhelm Radloff (1990), on the swan-maiden motif (scholarly)