Культовое почитание быка в традиционном культурном пространстве якутов Spiritual worship of ox in the traditional cultural space of the Yakut people

В данной работе проведена попытка интерпретации почитания крупного рогатого скота у якутов. На основе фольклорных, этнографических и археологических материалов и их анализа произведена привязка культа быка к определенным родоплеменным объединениям, а также выявлены истоки данного культурного явления. An attempt of interpretation of the cattle of the Yakut is accomplished in this article. The main object of the research is to define the role of ox worship in the traditional spiritual space of Yakuts. The set problem required to collect and analyze the archeological, ethnographical and folk sources. A benchmarking analysis resulted in discovery of the cradles of the most insufficiently explored phenomenon in the traditional culture of the Yakut. According to the preliminary data many Turkic tribes of Siberia have the cult of ox. As many scholars of different times have noticed a lot of similarities with the mythology of the Buryat more than once. The Cults of cattle is vastly widespread among Yakut tribes. Explorers suppose that their origin is connected with a Mongolian component in the ethnogeny. And a common reservoir, which these beliefs descended from, was situated in Eurasian steppes in the Bronze Age. In that way the Yakut cult of ox has to be recognized as the backwash of the steppe civilizations. The time of penetration of this phenomenon is a theme of another research work.