GRGR(16): a thing so awesome Even Dzambul could not sing it

[Peter Petto]

rj wrote about Tchitcherine's journey to see the Kirghiz light:

>I think by transcribing it the spiritual message and opportunity for
>personal fulfilment of it are lost, both to Tchitchy, who does not
>"reach ... his birth" when he eventually gets to where the song has
>directed him, and for us in general. Its "truth" is not forthcoming to
>the reader either. The point seems to be that Tchitchy is working for
>Them at this point, and by writing the song down as if it were a
>treasure map and then locating the Kirghiz Light from it he is intending
>to take it back to the apparatchiks where it will be exploited, or
>neatly labelled and filed away into a dossier. This is not possible
>because it is a private, one-on-one thing with God, if you like. Once it
>goes public it is corrupted and corrupt.

Is The Aqyn's Song the first time the Kirghiz Light is mentioned? For some 
reason I thought that Tchitcherine and Dzaqyp were headed to see it before 
they stumbled upon the ajtys. I could be all wet though. (I'm riding in a 
car at the moment, and GR is in the trunk.)

Even if they hear of the Light at that moment, are you sure that the trip 
to the Light is for "Them"? It's not necessarily of the same cloth as the 
stenography itself. (In some kind of Pavlovian slip I typed steganography 
just now!)