ANALYSIS OF THE ROOTS OF DUALISM SEMANTICS EXISTING IN ZOOMORPHIC AND ANTHROPOMORPHIC IMAGES BELONGING TO ANCIENT TURKIC ART

Abstract

The analysis of the processes of creation and development of material and spiritual values of the ancient Turkic peoples leading a nomadic lifestyle before our era is possible only when studying the subject world that has come down to us from the ancient Turks. The correct disclosure of the content of the mythological philosophical system and its symbols, images belonging to the ancient Turks, who left behind a rather small number of written samples and almost exclusively kurgan-type monuments, is based on a thorough, serious study of the hidden semantics of various zoomorphic or therioanthropomorphic compositions created by ancient masters on materials such as metal, bone and wood. The samples of decorative and applied art created by ancient Turkic masters differ not only in the plasticity of the forms themselves, compositional constructions and intense internal rhythmics, strict observance of the canons of the image. On each piece of art created by the ancient Turks, we can see an iconographic image of the harmony of the universe, which arose from the struggle of two basic life principles, one of the first philosophical systems of human civilization – dualism. The ancient Turkic art with its content was able to enrich the mythological thinking created by archaic times with new artistic forms and with new ethical and aesthetic elements. Compositions and images created by ancient Turkic masters could often fully express both artistic and philosophical, religious and ritual, and ethical content at the same time. This gave a powerful impetus to the appearance of art samples that could act as visual carriers of the mythological system inherent in the ancient Turkic world, and had a special language of description peculiar only to it. The research of the article is aimed at studying the influence of the aesthetic principles of dualism on ancient Turkic art.