Modun's Song - Epic Turkic Music

Music & vocals by Farya Faraji. Please note that this isn't reconstructed Turkic music of the time period, only modern music using various influences from diverse Turkic cultures, as well as Chinese and Mongolian influence given the subject matter. This is a song I composed using the texts provided by the excellent I Love Languages channel for the language Proto-Turkic, the reconstructed common ancestor of all Turkic languages spoken before 500 B.C. This ballad about Modun is effectively the continuation to my ballad on Touman, who was his father. Modun was a renowned chieftain and leader of the Xiongnu, who came to power after killing his father, and he waged war against the Han dynasty of China.

Lyrics in Proto-Turkic:
Mao-tunnun ogey anasi Tabgaclig erti.
Ögey anasi Mao-tunnu sebmer erti.

Mao-tun Ögey inisini utdu, bödke olturtu.
Mao-tunta nence bala bar (turur)?/
Mao-tunta bir bala bar (turur).

Jiyu atasi Mao-tunka kömek etgen ebe ogul turur.
Tou-man törunün örünten ciksar ogulunu öltürmek küseti.
Ogulu Mao-tun ani öltürtü.

Mao-tun Dong-hu, Yue -chi,
Han yagifi birle bolgan sünülürünü yenti.

English translation:
Modun's stepmother was Chinese.
His stepmother didn't love Modun.

Modun won his little stepbrother and sit the throne.
How many children does Modun have?
Modun has one child.

Jiyu was a good son who help his father Modun.
Touman wanted to violate the custom and kill his son.

His son Modun killed him.
Modun defeated his battles with Donghu, Yuechi and Han enemies.

[faryafaraji]

Music & vocals by Farya Faraji. Please note that this isn't reconstructed Turkic music of the time period, only modern music using various influences from diverse Turkic cultures, as well as Chinese and Mongolian influence given the subject matter. This is a song I composed using the texts provided by the excellent I Love Languages channel for the language Proto-Turkic, the reconstructed common ancestor of all Turkic languages spoken before 500 B.C. This ballad about Modun is effectively the continuation to my ballad on Touman, who was his father. Modun was a renowned chieftain and leader of the Xiongnu, who came to power after killing his father, and he waged war against the Han dynasty of China.

Lyrics in Proto-Turkic:
Mao-tunnun ogey anasi Tabgaclig erti.
Ögey anasi Mao-tunnu sebmer erti.

Mao-tun Ögey inisini utdu, bödke olturtu.
Mao-tunta nence bala bar (turur)?/
Mao-tunta bir bala bar (turur).

Jiyu atasi Mao-tunka kömek etgen ebe ogul turur.
Tou-man törunün örünten ciksar ogulunu öltürmek küseti.
Ogulu Mao-tun ani öltürtü.

Mao-tun Dong-hu, Yue -chi,
Han yagifi birle bolgan sünülürünü yenti.

English translation:
Modun's stepmother was Chinese.
His stepmother didn't love Modun.

Modun won over his stepbrother and sat the throne.
How many children does Modun have?
Modun has one child.

Jiyu was a good son who help his father Modun.
Touman wanted to violate the custom and kill his son.

His son Modun killed him.
Modun defeated his battles with Donghu, Yuechi and Han enemies.

[Nepalskiy]

> i need to wake up at 5 o'clock
> the day is destroyed
> a new Turkic song from Farya Faraji
> the day is restored

[lucylucratoru]

Ever since you released Touman's song I expected a continuation about Modun. Xiongnu history has always been fascinating.
It's definitely great to hear another turkic masterpiece from you, your throat singing is out of this world!

[ruohaoli]

Modun was quite a legendary figure in Chinese history and to a certain degree mystified by stories such as how he trained his soldiers to be so obedient that they shot Modun’s father when ordered, and how he defeated the Donghu tribe by faking weakness by answering to all the demands until land was asked for… truly the figure to initiate the subsequent thousands of years of history between the nomadic and sedentary civs

[hyperboreangilgamesh]

Mete Kağan ilk Türk imparatorluğunun en büyük imparatoru ve komutanı. Tengri ruhunu kutsasın. Farya bu tür şarkılara devam et! Şarkıların cidden çok güzel.

Mete Khan was the one who established the modern decimal military organization. He split his forces into 10/100/1000/10000 etc. Each ruled by corresponding commander. This can be observed in the modern Turkish army. Onbaşı rank can be translated as "Head of ten", Yüzbaşı, an officer rank in the Turkish army, can be translated as "head of hundred, ". Also, another officer rank called Binbaşı means "head of thousand".

[TheKingAlphonse]

From BC 209 until the end of time, we will always be the soldiers of Modu Chanyu. Tengri, give us life!

[fantom_rr]

listening to this at 2AM instead of sleeping because its a new video

[lerneszt]

Сказать честно, я горд, что являюсь носителем тюркской крови

[harujandro]

Böylesine kaliteli insanlara ve kaliteli işlere hasret kalmışken bu ilaç gibi geldi. Tüm çalma listesini baştan sona hiç sıkılmadan dinledim. Kültürümüzü bu kadar güzel sekilde yansıtman bir Türk olarak beni çok gururlandırdı. Şimdiye kadar bu kanalı bulamadığıma üzüldüm açıkçası. Emeğine sağlık Farya. Başarılarının devamını dilerim.

[nenenindonu]

Modun was the founder of the "Tumen" military unit, I don't know why but the word ended up being the name of your homelands currency :D

[KhansDen]

Tremendous work as always, Farya. Congrats. Now, I am working on a video about the Xiongnu, with Mete Han as the main protagonist. Would you mind if I used this song in it?

[denizdenkorkanbalik]

Teşekkür ederim... Çok güzel bir çalışma olmuş...
🇹🇷🙏🏻🔥

[AvsharKhagan]

Farya emeğinin karşılığının daha çok olmasını isterim. hak ettiğin değeri umarım görürsün. kültürümüzü tanıttığın için teşekkür ederim. başarıların daim olsun.

[balamiryabgu]

Proto-türkcə bizim dilə oxşuyur 🇦🇿🐺🇦🇿 Ulu atamızın ruhu içimizdə sonsuza qədər yaşayacaq!🐺🐺

[Demirorda]

Our grandfather Modun(Mete) Khan 💙🐺
Thanks Farya from Turkic world 🇹🇷🇦🇿🇹🇲🇰🇿🇭🇺🇺🇿🇰🇬

[DoofyGilmore]

One of the most important guy in our history he is very underrated

[Kurufasulyepilav]

Nice work Farya, Greetings from Turkiye 🇹🇷

[volkanozturkmen]

Mete khan🇹🇷🇦🇿🇺🇿🇰🇬🇹🇲🇰🇿🇭🇺
He is the ancestor of all Turks and he is Hun.

[nenenindonu]

The legend Oghuz Khagan might be a retelling of Modun, if that's indeed true this would make Oghuz dynasties like Ottomans and Seljuks direct continuations of the Xiongnu