TURKSIAN ETHNOCULTURAL REALITY IN THE OGUZNAME "KITABI-DADE GORGUD" AND "OGUZ-KAGAN"

Abstract

The article emphasizes that the modern definition of myth, its semantic scope is so broad that the search for its full explanation and disclosure of its role in the formation and development of society is still underway. In the Oguznams, especially in "Kitabi-Dede Korkut" and "Oguz Kagan", history is understood in a broad and narrow sense. In fact, all creations have a date of birth. Three aspects of the connection between sacred time and empirical-profane time can be shown: a) everything that happens in real life has its prototype in mythical time; b) what is on the field in empirical time is created according to the model of the original creations; c) progress goes in ruins - it returns to chaos, and then new creations can arise from it. Two aspects of the relationship between myth and history are explored: first, myth as history (reality) of its time. In this case, myth represents the actual-historical worldview of its time: what is in it is perceived as the only true and correct information. A person of the cosmological age perceives what is happening around him through a mythological model of the world, and the ideas that he accepts in the name of history (reality) are myths by their nature: they are the mythological reality of world perception. Second, myth is transformed into history and forms its basis. In this case, any “history” carries a myth in its womb. All forms of historical consciousness originate from myth. The form and content of myth are the archetypal basis of the form and content of historical thought. In this case, the relationship between history and myth becomes an inevitable, inevitable model of relations throughout the entire historical development.