SYMBOL KOKBORI (HEAVENLY WOLF) IN THE POETRY OF SUYUNBAI ARONOV (LINGUISTICS STUDYING)
Authors: Dzhusupov M. 
Published: October 2022

The article presents the analysis and description of the Kazakh and common Turkic symbol Kokbori (Heavenly Wolf) - the mythological foremother of all Turkic peoples based on the material of Suyunbay Aronov's poem "Burili menin bairakym" (My battle flag with the image of a wolf) using some other historical and literary sources. According to the content of the myth, the enemies decided to destroy the Turkic tribe (people). One boy, wounded, exhausted, went unnoticed, covered in ash in the steppe furnace. The Heavenly Wolf (Kokborі) took the boy and fed him. Enemies found the boy and killed him. Kokbori managed to give birth to 10 sons from him. Thus, the Turkic people stayed alive and spread throughout the world.

In Suyunbai's poetry, the image of Kokbori (wolf's head) was used on the Turkic battle flag, which corresponds to historical reality. The Turks fought with this flag, made campaigns, defended themselves and conquered new territories. The image of Kokbori and the flag with the image of a wolf's head raised the spirit of the Turks, aroused the instinct of a warrior in them, prepared them for heroism, fearlessness, and freedom.

The poem contains a large number of stylistic figures, tropes, anaphores. The last quatrain of the poem consists of 4 lines and 12 words. It includes alliterations created with the repetition of sound B (6 times), sound R (8 times), sound M (4 times), etc .; assonances created by the repetition of vowel sounds: A (8 times), Ӛ (4 times), E (5 times), etc.

In the stanza, stylistic figures and tropes are used both explicitly and implicitly. In the works on the history of the Tyrks, symbol Kokbori is translated into Russian as a green she-wolf or a blue she-wolf, or a blue she-wolf (Klyashtorny S.G., Sultanov T.I., etc.), which does not correspond to the historical reality and the meaning of the word kok (sky) in the Turkic languages. Kokborі is the Heavenly Wolf who came from the sky.

The word kӛk in the Kazakh language (and in other Turkic languages) means the sky. The meaning of the color came later, based on the association with the blue sky. At present, the high[1]frequency word aspan (sky) is borrowed from Farsi and came to the Turkic languages much later than the original Turkic word kӛk (sky). The article provides a comparative analysis of the symbol wolf (bӛri, Kasyr) in Kazakh (Turkic) mythology with the symbol wolf in the mythology of some other ancient and modern peoples. Within the Kazakh mentality, there are 3 wolves: 1) Kokbori (Heavenly Wolf) - the foremother of all Turkic peoples. She is one only and has its own name. It is written with an uppercase letter; 2) bӛri (wolf) - written with a lowercase letter. This word, on the one hand, connects the consciousness of a Kazakh with Kokbori (positive connotation), on the other hand, with a predator – a wolf (negative connotation). The second is dominant; 3) қасқыр, i.e. bӛri (wolf) is written with a lowercase letter. Negative symbol: predator, exterminator of domestic and wild animals. But at the same time, there is also a positive connotation – fearlessness, freedom. There are many wolves. Kokbori (Heavenly Wolf) is one. In the course of scientific research, several methods of linguistic analysis were used (comparative, contrasting minimal pairs, semantic-stylistic, etc.).