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- Title
THE PROHIBITION MOTIF IN UZBEK FOLKLORE, ITS ORIGINS AND POETICS.
- Authors
NAZAROVA, Shahnoza
- Abstract
Prohibitions are the most important part of all human-created laws. They serve to bring up future generations in their ancestors' ways and to maintain the integrity of society. But prohibitions are often broken. As a result, generations change; a new order replaces the old one. In this way, generations and entire civilizations endure a trial by fire. The historical, ritualistic, and poetic signs in folkloric texts reflect this process. Through textual analysis, this article examines the anthropological, ethnographic, and poetic meanings of prohibition. The motif of prohibition appears in Uzbek folklore, as well as in related Kirghiz, Kazakh, and Turkmen traditions. Only Tajik literature lacks parallel plots and motifs with relation to prohibition. This can be explained by the influence of Iranian mythology in Tajik literature. This shows that the literatures of the Central Asian peoples possess a unique and distinct mythological basis. Using the example of Uzbek folk epics and fairy tales, I will now examine the main qualities, symbols, forms, and types of the prohibition motif. I will also assess the genetic relationship between the image of the sponsor (helpmate) and the motif of testing a prohibition. I will also investigate the artistic and aesthetic functions of the motif of testing a prohibition. In the folkloric text, the poetic logic that necessitates the process of testing the prohibition (the initiation of a ceremony), will be examined as a device for moving along the plot, along with the motifs of birth, leaving home, the journey, encountering a sponsor, and performing the conditions of the sponsor, helpmate and others. Although prohibition usually denotes limits in myth and ritual systems, sometimes prohibition becomes a conditional motif and works against itself. This article also considers how the prohibition motif in the context of sung, as opposed to spoken folkloric works.
- Subjects
UZBEKISTAN; FOLKLORE; PROHIBITION of alcohol; HISTORY of poetics; ANTHROPOLOGY; CIVILIZATION
- Publication
Electronic Turkish Studies, 2017, Vol 12, Issue 7, p263
- ISSN
1308-2140
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7827/TurkishStudies.