MOTIVES TO CONSIDER THE HOMELAND SACRED IN THE FOLKLORE OF THE TURKIC PEOPLES

Abstract

The similarity of literature and culture, language and religion of the Turkic peoples is explained by the fact that their historical destinies are intertwined in one channel. A natural phenomenon is the absence of a significant difference in the ethnogenetic and ethnolinguistic attitudes of related peoples who lived in direct contact and close to each other. The article analyzed the concept of “homeland”, which occupies a special place in the worldview of the Turkic peoples, and considered the common motives of the love of the Turkic peoples for their native land. At the same time, scientific works were taken as a basis, in which a number of problems of Turkology were investigated, values such as patriotism, protection of the country and land found in the folklore heritage of fraternal peoples were compared.

The native land is a sacred, revered concept for any nation. For the human race, the umbilical cord is a place where blood drips and becomes a golden cradle. The words «Otan», «atameken», «tuğan jer», «atajūrt» give a sacred representation in the worldview of the Turkic peoples. To consider the native land sacred, the veneration and glorification of the native land is reflected in the heritage of all the oral literatures of the Turkic peoples, starting with the legends and myths that arose in antiquity. The similarity of the motives of wearing the native land in the oral literature of the Tatar, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Bashkir peoples is inextricably linked with the historical and cultural development of fraternal peoples deeply rooted in their roots.