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  "textContent": "The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world.\n\nALMATY – Long before written language became widespread, the nomadic world spoke through patterns. In Kazakh culture, ornaments were more than decoration: they carried identity, beliefs, and a way of seeing the world shaped by life in the steppe. Ethnographer and craftswoman Bulbul Kapkyzy says traditional oyu-örnek (ornament) should be understood not as a single…\n\nThe post What Kazakh Ornaments Reveal About Nomadic Life and Nature appeared first on The Astana Times.",
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