Open AccessSacred concepts associated with wild animals and birds in Kazakh folklore
Author(s) -
E. Yerkin,
Almaty Art
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
keruen
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2790-7066
pISSN - 2078-8134
DOI - 10.53871/2078-8134.2020.1-07
Subject(s) - kazakh , folklore , magic (telescope) , clan , ancient history , history , ethnology , zoology , archaeology , anthropology , biology , sociology , philosophy , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics
Kazakh people, who lived In the great steppes during the great Patriotic war, were well aware of the properties of animals and birds. Like the ancient peoples of the world were fetishism, Magic, Animism, Totemism, etc., the Kazakh people have preserved such ancient beliefs. "When people believed that some animals are saints, thought that they were born with them, and some animals believed in the ancestors of the genus. If such animals were not good, there would be no hunters, " writes academician S. Kaskabasov (Kaskabasov C, 2002:200). In fact, in the genusshoulders, forming the Kazakh people, there is a trust to associate their origin with known plant, animal or natural phenomena. Example: the motto of the naimans-Kaptagai (Tookit). Tolpagai is the name of Atan-jilikti, Nar figala, the terrible camel storm, and therefore, the ancient clans-tribes associated their distribution with known genetically related animals, plants, revered them and found them on their rear qualities.