Nazar Bolot uulu (Назар Болот уулу) (d. 1893) was a Kyrgyz oral poet.
Later folkloric sources and oral history records him as the unnamed performer of the first known transcription of an episode from the Epic of Manas, collected in 1856 by Shoqan Walikhanov in San-Tas.
While Shoqan Walikhanov's general comments about the epos were published and widely disseminated, the actual transcription was misplaced, only to be rediscovered by Alkey Margulan in the Leningrad Academy of Sciences in 1964. The manuscript was later edited by A. T. Hatto.
References
- Еркетанов, O. (1996). "Чокан жана белгисиз манасчылар". In Плоскикх, В. М.; Приор, Д.; Акматалиев, А. А (eds.). Сан-Таш – 140: материалы Международной конферен- ции, посвящённой первой записи эпоса «Манас» Ч. Валихановым. Бишкек: Илим. pp. 98–102. ISBN 9785835509232.
- Prior, Daniel (1998). "Bok-murun's Itinerary Ridden: Report on an Expedition Through Kirghiz Epic Geography". Central Asiatic Journal. 42 (2): 238–282 (pp. 272-276). ISSN 0008-9192.
- Hatto, A. T. (June 1971). "The Kirgiz original of Kukotay found". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 34 (2): 379–386. doi:10.1017/S0041977X0012960X.
- Hatto, A. T., ed. (1977). The Memorial Feast for Kökötöy-Khan (Kökötöydün ašı): A Kirghiz Epic Poem. Oxford: Oxford University Press.