Khoumo and Simourg – sacred turkic birds

Abstract

In mythology the bird is always the marker of the height and symbolizes peculiarities of the highest regions of the Being. For the study of the turkic outlook it is of exceptional significance because the reconstruction of the ideological complex of tengrism begins today. In the article there is analysed the iconography of the bird Simourg, the heraldic symbol of the dynasty of Sefevids in Azerbaijan and the bird Khoumo decorating modern State Seal of Uzbekistan.