Abstract
The article presents a philosophical analysis of mythoepic texts and musical components of the Circassian folklore. In particular, the study explores specific epic images and related songs, as well as their cultural and philosophic implications. The role and significance of music culture in the Circassian traditional society are traced using epic narratives. Heroic cycles of the Nart epic are viewed as an art-aesthetic material, where the common plot-compositional centre of the epic culture produces a very specific worldview with a set of cosmogonic mythologies. Using the example of several heroic characters and the cycles of song folklore associated with them, the idea of the multilevel nature of the construction of the ontological foundations of myth and epic is expressed. The paper substantiates the hypothesis that an important factor in the preservation and translation of not only song folklore, but also many other forms of artistic reality is a whole complex of mnemic linguistic and extralinguistic means. It is concluded that the Nart epic in these aspects should be understood not only as an ethical, but also as an aesthetic code of Circassians, where epic texts and songs contain many pre-philosophical universals and ideas.
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