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1) Like most early steppe nomad 

art, animal motifs were very common among


the Huns. The most common animals that were depicted besides birds of prey
were horses and deer. Horses were an obvious choice for a horse-warrior
society, and deer had a mystical quality to them and often shamanic meaning.
The Huns were a different culture to the Mongols. The origins of the Huns are still debated
today, in the 18th century the French scholar de Guignes proposed that the Huns were related
to the Xiongnu, a nomadic people who emigrated out of northern China in the 1st century CE.

The nomadic people are thought to have come from what is now Kazakhstan, and swept across
the eastern steppes after about 350 A.D. Some scholars think they were a Turkic tribe
descended from the Xiongnu, a group of pastoral nomads who unified much of Asia during the
late third and early second centuries B.C.

The origins of the Huns are still debated today, in the 18th century the French scholar de Guignes
proposed that the Huns were related to the Xiongnu, a nomadic people who emigrated out of
northern China in the 1st century CE. However, the evidence for this theory is not definitive, and so it
is not universally accepted.
Due to poor archaeological records, and an absence of a written language, it is very difficult to
establish where the Huns came from. Nowadays people tend to lean more towards the idea that they
came from the steppes of Central Asia, though the precise location is unknown.
They first appear in written records by Tacitus, who says that they live near the Caspian Sea in
91CE. But they don't make their way into Europe until the 4th century.

Cosmogony amd mythology of the ancient turks.cult of ancestors. Tengrianism.

2) Tengrism (also known as Tengriism, Tengerism, or Tengrianism) is an ancient religion originating


in Central Asia and the Eurasian steppes, based on animism and shamanism and generally
centered around the titular sky god Tengri. Tengrism is an ancient religion that is still practiced
today in central Asia. The religion comprises of practices like ancestor worship, monotheism
and shamanism. It is grounded on the belief that Tengri provides for every human being in the
world as eternal blue-sky spirit and the fertile earth spirit. Tengri was the chief deity worshipped
by the ruling class of the Central Asian steppe peoples in 6th to 9th centuries (Turkic peoples,
Mongols and Hungarians). Tengri means “Sky God” — the primary deity of a pantheon
of gods believed by early Mongolic and Turkic peoples to govern all human existence and
natural phenomena on earth.

Some current scientific theories of cosmogony demonstrate significant similarities to the


cosmological theories of mythology and of certain religions. The notion that the universe
originated in a specific cataclysmic explosion raises the mental construct of a center of the
universe. Cosmogony, the study of the origin and development of the universe as a whole and
of the individual bodies that compose it. Since cosmogony attempts to deal with
creation, cosmogonies of the past have been a part of religion or mythology.

3)cultural heritage of the Turkic peoples inhabitinb the territory of kazakhsthan

They the Tiele, or as they called themselves the Türük believed to be descendants of the
Dingling, a tribe conquered by the Xiongnu that became part of them. They were nomadic,
steppe people whom conquered other nomadic steppe people and formed the Köktürk
Khağanate aka the Turkic Khanate. They were an Asian people. Kazakh, also spelled Kazak,
an Asiatic Turkic-speaking people inhabiting mainly Kazakhstan and the adjacent parts of the
Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang in China. ... The Kazakhs are the second most
numerous Turkic-speaking people in Central Asia after the Uzbeks. he origins of the Turkic
peoples has been a topic of much discussion. [33] Recent linguistic, genetic and archaeological
evidence suggests that the earliest Turkic peoples descended from agricultural communities
in Northeast China who moved westwards into Mongolia in the late 3rd millennium BC, where they
adopted a pastoral lifestyle.[34][35][36][37][38] By the early 1st millennium BC, these peoples had
become equestrian nomads.[34] In subsequent centuries, the steppe populations of Central
Asia appear to have been progressively Turkified by a heterogenous East Asian dominant
minority moving out of Mongolia.[39][40] Many vastly differing ethnic groups have throughout history
become part of the Turkic peoples through language
shift, acculturation, conquest, intermixing, adoption and religious conversion.[3] Nevertheless, certain
Turkic peoples share, to varying degrees, non-linguistic characteristics like cultural traits, ancestry
from a common gene pool, and historical experiences.[3]

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