CULT SANCTUARIES AS A SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF IDEOLOGICAL IDEAS OF THE POPULATION OF DAGESTAN OF THE EARLY AND MIDDLE BRONZE AGE

Authors

  • Gamzat Dibirovic Ataev The Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography the Daghestan Federal Research Centre of RAS
  • Tufan Isaak-oglu Ahundov Институт археологии и этнографии Национальной академии наук Азербайджана

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32653/CH154678-703

Keywords:

North-Eastern Caucasus, Dagestan, ideological ideas, early and middle bronze age, sanctuary, mound, beliefs and cults.

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of cult sanctuaries of the early and middle bronze age, which are one of the most important sources for the reconstruction of ideological ideas of the population of Dagestan. The work is based on the materials of settlements, burial grounds, research sanctuaries, attraction and analysis of religious objects, rock paintings, which reflect the ideological ideas of the ancient population of the North-Eastern Caucasus, and Dagestan, in particular. The purpose and objective of this article is a comprehensive study of religious sanctuaries and monuments of art, on the basis of which the study of ancient religious and ideological ideas of the local population in the early and middle bronze age. A comprehensive study of household, burial and religious monuments, the study of which reveals the various religious beliefs and rituals, as well as objects of worship of the population of Dagestan in the early and middle bronze age allowed to highlight many of the problems associated with the ideological beliefs of the local population. The considered materials show that the tribes of Dagestan in the early and middle bronze age had a fairly complex and developed ideology for that time. At the heart of the beliefs of ancient farmers and pastoralists, judging by the study of religious sanctuaries, rock paintings and hearths was the worship of various cults: fertility cults, agricultural cults, cults of animals, wood, etc. They are also expressed in different characters – solar, agricultural, female, etc. Their study helped to get an idea of the spiritual culture of the population of the region to reveal that the population of Dagestan during the early and middle bronze age there existed a complex and diverse beliefs.

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Author Biographies

  • Gamzat Dibirovic Ataev, The Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography the Daghestan Federal Research Centre of RAS
    PhD (History) Senior Researcher Dept. of Archaeology
  • Tufan Isaak-oglu Ahundov, Институт археологии и этнографии Национальной академии наук Азербайджана
    доктор исторических наук, ведущий научный сотрудник

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Ataev GD, Ahundov TI oglu. CULT SANCTUARIES AS A SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF IDEOLOGICAL IDEAS OF THE POPULATION OF DAGESTAN OF THE EARLY AND MIDDLE BRONZE AGE. ИАЭК. 2019;15(4):678-703. doi:10.32653/CH154678-703