THE ORIGINS OF THE SAKHA CIRCULAR DANCES

Traditional dances are associated with mythological and religious beliefs. Circular dances, which have a high semantic status, are strongly connected with the ritual system. Thus, the traditional circular dance of the Sakha (Yakut) osuohai (Dzhokhar) is a dance of worship to Yuryung Ayy Toyon , a personified image of the Sun that have deep ancient roots. However, the plastically dance vision of the ancient Yakuts, revealing the functional orientation and the ideological basis of their ritual circular dance, is not sufficiently illuminated.Since the conclusions of the Sakha (Yakut) ancestry genetic studies and the Yakut heroic epic Olonkho materials indicate the regions of the junction of the Karakorum, Hindu Kush and Northwestern Himalayas as the place of the Sakha (Yakuts) ancestor’s original residence, the paper investigates the semantics of the circular dance of this region peoples in comparison with the Sakha (Yakuts) ancient circular dance.As a result of the study, the author deduces the functional identity of the religious ideas behind the collective circular dances of the Hindu Kush Kafir peoples, the traditional circular danceof the Sakha (Yakuts) and the Sufi dhikr Jahri. An assumption is made about the ancient cultural and kinship ties of the proto-ancestors of peoples who’s so far away today. Collective circular dances are found in the culture of all peoples of the world, they are all archaic and associated with the divine. Ultimately, they reproduce the mythological action as ensuring the orderliness of Universe.