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Windy Tuesday: the mythological unity of creative and destructive power

Windy Tuesday: the mythological unity of creative and destructive power

10 March 2026, 11:35 / Interviews, speeches

These thoughts were expressed by Doctor of Sciences in Philology, Associate Professor Shakir Albaliyev in an interview with AZERTAC. In his opinion, complaints are made to Yel Baba about the injustice in the social order: “It confirms that people, just as on the sacred day of Windy Tuesday, at other times as well, asked for help from Yel Baba and believed that he would cure their problems. In other words, the people who are hit by the black wind are in a bad situation, their lands have been plundered and devastated. Therefore, they pray to the Wind to stop the black wind from blowing over them again and to remove the evil and calamity from their heads. In other words, the main mission of Windy Tuesday is to free people from the destructive power of the Wind and to reach the bright day - happiness - by taking advantage of its creative power...”