Kökötöy

An immensely rich old Kyrgyz khan whose death and lavish memorial feast give the most-recorded episode of the whole tradition its name. His deathbed instructions set in motion the funeral games at which Manas, Joloi and Konurbay first contend.

Children

• Bokmurun

Domains

• wealth
• kingship

Relations

• father of: BokmurunCh. Valikhanov, 'Smert' Kukotay-khana i ego pominki' (1856); A. T. Hatto, 'Kukotay and Bok Murun', BSOAS (1969) (scholarly)

Sources

• existence: Ch. Valikhanov, 'Smert' Kukotay-khana i ego pominki' (1856); A. T. Hatto, 'Kukotay and Bok Murun', BSOAS (1969) (scholarly)