Abstract:

About Festival Scenes on Saymali Tash Petroglyphs Not only in Saymali Tash in Kyrgyzstan, but anywhere in Eurasian step belt, affected by Turkic culture, rock carvings (petroglyphs) can be found. In those glyphs anything can be subject: daily life acts, ritual performances or just a single inscription (tamga) which identify the area to specific tribe. Our research focused on festival scenes based on Saymali Tash. While the academicians prefer to use “ritual dance” to explain those glyphs yet it is not clear. So we want to put a new idea about why those people perform such as ritual. It is relatively rare if compared to archaeological artifacts and there is no sign left about their function from the people who carved them. That is why it is quite hard to reach definite conclusion. Article tries to explain, what may be the reason and what is the specific carving time of those glyphs, with the help of neighboring countries customs and with the interpretation of one of the oldest Turkish legend

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