The mountain of Otugan (with its cave) as “a module of the temple space” in the architecture of the Turkic peoples

Abstract

In the paper is reviewed development of the structural (crumbstructure) view of the “universal cave archetype” in the temple architecture of different religions, which can be found in the Turkish environment.From this point of view, the iconographic analysis of the spatial composition speciic for the Turks “Remembrance of the dead Complex” is being conducted.The irst the concept of Godliness is accepted as “an open worldview system”in the paper. As a result, it is attempted to identify “the module of the temple space” of the early Middle Ages at the worship temples of the Turkic peoples.