VARIABILITY OF THE NAMES AND LOCI OF THE DEITIES OF THE YAKUT PANTHEON IN THEIR FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE

In the context of the challenges of modern science towards the search for fundamental invariants of the general scientific picture of the world, the synthesis of natural science constructions and ancient thinking, enshrined in the Olonkho heritage, seems promising. In this perspective, when studying the traditional culture in general, the reconstruction of the harmonious structure of the Yakut pantheon of deities, the generally accepted classification of their names and loci, today is almost kept to a minimum. It should also be pointed out that in Yakut folklore studies, the moment of myth creation itself remains outside the field of research. We must not lose sight of the fact that over many historical epochs, the traditional mythological fabric transmitted from generation to generation has been multiplied and processed by the creative activities of narrators. The latter, in its primary basis, formed the sum of anthropological and psychophysiological constants, real-historical and folk-mythological narratives, the objective and subjective experience of the narrator, and finally, the features of external factors at the time of execution. In the interest of increasing the objectivity of the research, an interdisciplinary systems approach is proposed, where the starting point is the use of the Gumilev deduction method – a peculiar bird's-eye view. This method is necessary for a more adequate resolution of the problem of the separation of sources available to science. The aim of the study is to identify the prerequisites (reasons) for the statement of multivariate interpretations of the names and loci of the celestials pantheon of the ancestors. The methods of review, analysis, synthesis, comparison, widely used in folklore, are used, and the methods of synergetics, extrapolation, and hermeneutics are also used. According to the author, variability in its root comes from the nature of human co-creator, and an interdisciplinary synthesis at the junction of a number of disciplines is necessary to obtain an objective picture of the classification of the names and loci of the ancestral pantheon deities. This work is a logical continuation of the previous articles of the author “Model of the Sakha World: semantics from the perspective of form geometry (based on the Yakut epic)”; “To the question of the structural interpretation of the locus of the heads of the Yakut pantheon from the perspective of the geometry of forms”. Further research in this direction is planned.

Acknowledgments: The study was carried out as part of the research project of the NEFU “Heroic epics of the Turkic-Mongolian peoples of Eurasia: problems and prospects for comparative study”.

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