FROM EXPERIENCE OF COMPARATIVE STUDY DASTANA "KOBLAN" (on the example of the Karakalpak folk dastan "Koblan")

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In world folclore epics occupy a special place. In Karakalpak oral folklore, heroic epics are also widespread. One of main reasons for their appearance is the constant struggle for power for land, for property with external enemies, with those in power in a tribal, patriarchal-feudal society, a nomadic way of life as the only way to protect against enemy raids. The historical, political and economic situation of past centuries pushed storytellers (zhyrau) to creativity-the creation of heroic epics. The Karakalpak folk epos Koblan by genre signs refers specifically to the heroic epics of our people. The image of the ideal national hero in an epic work is created thanks to rich literary techniques. To a certain extent, this also appeared in the Karakalpak folk epos. The protagonist of the epic is the hero “Koblan”. The appearance of such an image is not accidentally. On the basis of continuous opposition to external and internal enemies of the people, the idea of starving for justice is formed. And this idea is associated in the minds of the people with the birth of an invincible hero who would embody all the spirituality and moral principles of the people who would give their lives for their homeland and for the people without hestation. KEYWORDS- heroic epos, typology, comparative study, plot, hero, image, narrator, variant, version.