The book by Azerbaijani scientist has been published in Germany
Head of the department “Dede Gorgud” of the Institute of Folklore ANAS, Professor Ramazan Gafarli’s book “Azerbaijan Turkic mythology” has been published by the Publishing House “LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing”. The book consists of 360 pages.
History of research, theoretical and categorical aspects of Azerbaijani Turkic mythology, ways of investigation, mythological-genesis, archetypical symbols in mythological meetings, mythological factors in structural poetics, main categories of structural analysis systems, genetic structure of mythological thought, etc. such issues are analyzed systematically for the first time. In addition, the attributes of sacral thinking of Azerbaijani Turks, the oldest forms of artistic creativity – interaction of myth-ritual synthesis with religion, legends, fairy tales, connection, a number of theoretical issues of mythology, specific features, origin of some archetypes, ways of creation, in short, problems of ritual-mythological reconstruction are investigated.
