THE RELATIONSHIP OF GOD, HUMAN BEİNG AND NATURE IN TOPONIMIC LEGENDS: IN EXAMPLE OF ISSYK-KUL

Abstract

People from the very beginning of their existence set the goal to understanding and interpretation the nature and environment. Within this goal, humanity instinctively created toponymic legends to explain the complex and unknown and to connect the cause. Legends are oral literary treasures that have emerged in the direction of interpreting human social events, natural events and forms. It`s important that in myths the heroes of events are ordinary people or animals, with a supernatural power that carry out extraordinary events. In the nomadic Kyrgyz culture the legends describe the relationship of human - God, human - nature and nature - God relations by kneading with many philosophical thoughts. It should be noted that describing this, both the old Turkic mythology and elements of Islamic beliefs and motives are used. In the life of ancient Turks the cult of places and water plays an important role, it is manifested in the names of places in the Turkic world. In the context of this belief, when the Turks called the places where they lived, and the water bodies they used, they usually associated them with an unusual event, giving it a special spirit and meaning. As in many parts of the Turkic world, in Kyrgyzstan almost every mountain, stone, water body and settlement in the surrounding region is explained by one or more myths. Researching the toponymic legends of Kyrgyzstan, in our work we touched upon the relationship between god, nature and man.

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