THE EMBODIMENT OF COSMOGONIC MYTHS IN OUR FOLKLORE AND THE MOTIFS OF “OGUZNAME”

Abstract

The creation of the world and humans has puzzled humanity throughout history. As a result, many myths on creation have emerged in the mythology of the Peoples of the World, and these myths have existed for centuries. Turkic peoples also have many mythological texts on creation. In our oral literature, cosmogonic myths have been passed down from generation to generation, and still exist today. These mythical texts show that the Earth and Sky were once contiguous and then separated. In these types of myths reflected in our folklore, the elements of water and fire, as well as texts about the Moon and the Sun are mostly mentioned. We also encounter these ideas, which exist in our early mythical texts, in the motifs of the "Oguzname". Chaos, cosmic relations, the center of the Earth and Sky, the Creation of Day and Night, the direction of left and right, the number of seasons, days, months, years, and the numbers 7 and 7777 have been preserved in various forms in Oghuz traditions. These ideas, which were formed within the unified views of ethnic tradition, have maintained their stability in the form of formulas in the minds of the people. It is clear that the plots reflected in the cosmogonic myths have retained their existence in the archaic-mythological direction and have not been erased from the spheres of consciousness. The motifs of the “Oguzname”, established on mythological layers, followed each other like a cosmogonic act and became an integral part of the Oguz ideological thinking system.