Azimchan Orazbayevich Ybyraiym,
Taraz State University named after M. Kh. Doulatih,
7 Suleimanov Str., Taraz, Shu, 080000, Republic of Kazakhstan,
azimchan23@mail.ru.
Gulnar Abdullovna Altayeva,
Taraz State University named after M. Kh. Doulatih,
7 Suleimanov Str., Taraz, Shu, 080000, Republic of Kazakhstan,
gulnar.a1969@mail.ru.
This article analyzes specific features of Turkic animalistic ethno-culture. Having analyzed the studies in question, the authors focused on the central aspects of the artistic assimilation of “humans and wildlife”. According to the authors, in the life of ancient Turks animals occupied an important place, because in those times people’s existence and well-being were impossible without them. Analyzing the images of animals found in the fiction prose, proverbs and sayings, the authors focused on anthropomorphic and totemic phenomena related to animal beliefs that led to the appearance of animal tales. In the analyses of ethnic consciousness of the Tatar and Kazakh people, the authors emphasized the main and generalized idea that the human and animal worlds were originally intertwined. The article substantiates the idea that organic intertwining of human and animal lives identified peculiarities of ethnic perception of the world stipulated by the reasons of ethnic and ethnogenetic nature. The authors show that oral poetry indirectly addresses ontological and anthropological topics through animal images. In the nomadic axiology, the authors of the article identified universal and local values determined by the ancient Turks’ way of life, ambient natural reality, and form of activity. The animal images were used as descriptive and expressive methods in depicting such themes as Motherland, unity, maternity, hospitality, values of earthly life. The analysis of animalistic motives in Tatar and Kazakh peoples’ oral poetry works allowed the authors to conclude that the images of animals could be viewed as a kind of original code in manifesting the ethnic understanding of the world.
Key words: animal, ethnic culture, totem, tale, proverb, animalistic images, anthropological aspect, nomadic axiology, ethnic consciousness, ontological and anthropological topics.