MYTH POETICISMS IN THE EPOS "MAULIMNIYAZ-EDIGE"
Zhyr “Edige”, being a part of the cycle of zhyrs / epic work / of the epos “Kyrymnyn kyryk batyry” (“Forty brave men of the Crimea”), was glorified under the name “Maulimniyaz-Edige” by a well-known Kazakh zhyrau Nurtugan Kenzhegululy (Kazakhs called him “shayyr”). In the poetic language of zhyrs there are peculiar linguistic features which characterize the religious mythology of the Kazakh people. In zhyraus there are also reflection of such concepts as a “world tree”, “the relationship between cosmos and chaos”, “relationship of beginnings of life with water” that are distinctive features of the mythological world view of peoples in the world. All this shows that the primary version, the original of this work has its roots deep in centuries. The use of the words “feast”, “murid”, “zikr”, “Angel and others that are the basis of linguistic attribution of Islam, evidences that the formation of the zhyr “Maulimniyaz-Edige” as the epos took place in the XII-XIII centuries under the influence of religious and educational concepts of written Turkic literature of Central Asia. These language features of religious and mythological concepts are also found in the version of zhyr “Edige” written by Sh.Valihanov, which is considered to be the earliest version. Language peculiarities of the the epos characterize the mythological module of world in accordance with the following parameters: 1) space-time, 2) causal, 3) ethical, 4) quantitative 5), semantic, 6) character. In the zhyr “Maulimniyaz-Edige” linguistic peculiarities of religious and mythological concepts characterize the conceptual worldview of the Kazakhs, Nogais, Tatars, Karakalpaks, and other ethnic groups on the basis of which there was born the original version of the zhyr.