HUMAN-NATURE RELATIONS IN AZERBAIJANI FOLKLORE

Abstract

Human is Nature, Nature is Human. Human cannot live without Nature, and Nature cannot live without Human. Nature does not essentially make a distinction between Human and other creatures; Those in Nature do not have the opportunity to understand the world like Human, but Human shows that he is different from other creatures by correcting Nature's mistake. The current form of Nature did not come into being all of a sudden. Undoubtedly, the minds of people in the world were not like today. Nature generously gave Human a place in its bosom. Human admired the world. He benefited from the blessings of Nature. He tried to understand everything he saw, everything seemed strange to him, he tried to find the reason. As his mind developed, he interpreted the sunrise, sunset, rain, lightning, snow, and the flow of the river as miracles. The sky seemed very high and incomprehensible to Human, and he felt something strangely shy and proud in the mountain...

The article examines the Human-Nature relationship encountered in almost every genre of Azerbaijani folklore and draws the necessary conclusions.