Journals / Türkoloji / 2013 / Sayı: 65-66

DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THE WAY TOBEGOZ IN "BOOK OF KORKYT ATA"

Journal
Türkoloji
Pages
12–17
DOI
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Abstract

The article examines the history of the emergence of widely giant (dау) Tobegoz, which is mentioned in the song (zhyr) entitled "The story of Kill Tobegoz by Basat" in "book of Korkyt Ata." Research carried out an analysis of what the characters one-eyed men and giants (dау), had meetings in the ancient Turkic mythology take place in Kazakh fairy-tales, the writings in the book of Geradot and in the book of Korkyt. Says that this character originated before Islam and beliefs based on shamanism.