Kangyuy art and religious beliefs: to the analysis and interpretation of the anthropomorphic image of the Ugam tract (South Kazakhstan)

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en Podushkin Alexandr Nikolayevich

Подушкин, Александр Николаевич

Title

Kangyuy art and religious beliefs: to the analysis and interpretation of the anthropomorphic image of the Ugam tract (South Kazakhstan)

Alternative Title

Искусство и религиозные верования Кангюй: к анализу и интерпретации антропоморфного изображения из урочища Угам (Южный Казахстан)

Publication Type

Journal Article

Language

rus

Number of Pages

15

Location

Russia

Keywords

Arys culture

ceramics

deity

iconography

image semantics

Relevance to ICH Safeguarding

identification

documentation

definition

awareness raising

ICH Genre

social practices

rituals

Description

The article is devoted to a complex archaeological, historical, cultural, trasological, iconographic analysis, and semantic-ethnic interpretation of the unique anthropomorphic image on a ceramic jug for water and food, which was found at Ushbastobe sites I-IV centuries (valley of the Ugam river, South Kazakhstan). Different versions of semantic interpretation of the image are given

the key of them is that it is Farn-Pharn, a tribal (clan, home) deity (cult) with a lot of incarnations (life wellbeing, health, wealth, happiness, talisman against evil forces, etc.). Its iconographic sources are related to the traditions of fine art and religious beliefs of the ancient ethnic groups of Eurasia in the late Iron Age and bear clear autochthonous features inherent in the settled agricultural population of the local mountain region. In ethno-cultural terms, the anthropomorphic image in the proposed semantic-functional version (Farn-Pharn) is associated with the state of Kangyuy (Kantszyuy), as well as a number of Iranian-speaking tribes of the Scythian-Saka-Sarmatian world, where this cult was widespread in ancient times.

Book/Journal Title

en World of Great Altai

Үлкен Алтай әлемі – Мир Большого Алтая

Publisher

Sarsen Amanzholov East Kazakhstan State University

Place of Publication

Oskemen, Kazakhstan

Date of Publication

2016

Issue

2(4.1)

Pages

751-765

ISSN

2410-2725

Academic Field

Cultural Studies

Anthropology

Community/Ethnic Group

Kazakhstan

Central Asia

Contributor

Kazakhstan National Committee for Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

Active Contribution

Kazakhstan, FY 2023