Historical foundations of the epic horse image

Аннотация

The article provides a gradual presentation of the historical works that led to the artistically perfect depiction of the epic horse in the epics. The place of the horse in the history of the Turkic peoples, the confessions of historians in this regard, the findings of the horse in ancient manuscript sources, in short, the ideology of the Turkic peoples is compared with the image of a war horse in the epics. As characteristic of the war horses described in folk epics, they appear to be the most perfect of the natural horses, as well as the horse features expressed in mythological and totemistic beliefs. In this respect it was understood that the war horses in the epics must be directly or indi- rectly dependent on water horses and celestial horses in order to be true tulpars. In this article, we will take a closer look at the natural, religious beliefs and views that underlie the creation of the epic horse image in folk epics. The article also includes “nomadic mavaniyer”, “animal-mother” traditions and beliefs, “Devonu lug'otut-turk” and commentary on Turkish words related to the horse, analysis of the image of the horse in the Karvash folk epics and interpretations took place.