MOTIVE OF GOD OMEN IN TOPONYMIC SAYINGS OF TATAR POPULATION OF BASHKORTASTAN REPUBLIC

MOTIVE OF GOD OMEN IN TOPONYMIC SAYINGS OF TATAR POPULATION OF BASHKORTASTAN REPUBLIC

Motive of divine omens space settlements is common to place-legends of most Turkic peoples. This article analyzes the ideological and artistic features, inherent traditions of the Tatar population of the Republic of Bashkortostan. Historicism in the tradition built on this motif plays a minor role, in the paramount antropomor ¬ geographic, totemic and animistic beliefs of our people. Higher forces may vary in relocating people to specify a new place to settle. These are the filing of the divine character through intermediaries - birds, pigeons (the legend about the history of the village Kugarchen-Bulyak (in Russian translation of "The Gift of doves") Sharan district); swaying ¬ lyvaniya wheel axle wagon settlers on the future site of a settlement (a legend about the history of the village Kucharsyndy (wheel axle broke)" Yanaul district); detection of metal de ¬ neg on the site of a new settlement (a legend about the history of the village of Tien Ve ("Three penny") Karaidel district), the implementation at this site for ¬ vetnoy dreams of the people (the legend of history of the village Telyakeevo ("Dream") Ilish district). Thus, in all these legends in the names of a tree ¬ Wen reflected divine signs, omens, filed ¬ nye higher forces displaced. The people that perpetuated these characters in names ¬ niyah villages, hoping to protect them from evil forces, and his earthly happiness. That is, even the names of these villages are endowed with magical function and content. These stories mostly are based on pagan beliefs, which are based on totemic, animist and fetishisticheskie beliefs of our ancestors.

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