LIFE AND TIME IN ORKHON-YENISEY MONUMENTS

Abstract

The Turks, who have the steppe culture, also thought about these questions and reflected their worldviews in the monuments. They had certain ideas and beliefs about the existence, formation, and creation of the universe. The ancient Turks had certain ideas and worldviews about life, set a measure for time, used the Turkish calendar with twelve animals, and this is widely reflected in the language of the monuments. The fact that the calendar with twelve animals reflects the Turkish culture and some sources confirm it suggests that the calendar belongs entirely to the Turkish way of thinking. A calendar with 12 animals was developed in the language of the Orkhon-Yenisei monuments. In the article, it is known that the concepts of life and time and cosmogony were formed in the worldview of the ancient Turks.