Ancient Ritual Construction of Saryarka and its Interrelation with Kazakh Ideology

2016

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DOI 10.1080/09720073.2016.11892122
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Abstract

This paper shows a close interrelation between the main ritual traditions of burying human beingswith a horse in the Kazakh period. The main point of this paper are the burial mounds with “mustache” and itsfunctions in the ritual traditions. There are real examples of researchers’ works which followed from the BronzeAge, Early Iron Age, monuments of Huns and Turkish periods, and other archeological excavations which becamethe results of analyses and facts. There were researches on the cults of sun, fire and burials. Gathering all the resultsand examples, the researchers were able to present the similarity in the system of faith, further in the historyKazakh period. For example, in the tradition of sacrifice, there are also some ritual traditions combined with theKazakh period. According to the authors’ opinions, this goes back to about tens of centuries. The results of thisfully developed and selected the one system of ideology. Saryarka is a historical and geographical area that is richof monuments since the ancient times. This article is focused on the ritual function of the ritual monuments ofdifferent times. The research of complex burial mounds with “mustache” and its functions remain important.Ancient traditional constructions associated with the ritual ceremonies of the cults of horses in close cooperationwith the era of post-Kazakh relations. Horse has been regarded as the main driving force of the procedures sinceancient times. Ideological concepts of the people who lived in Saryarka in ancient times has changed only a littlemature, the basic idea is to continue for many centuries.