THE FEATURE OF THE THIRD EDITION OF “DEDE KORKUT BOOK”

Abstract

Previously, the Dresden and Vatican versions of the “Book of Korkut Ata” were known in science, which are a common literary relic of the Turkic peoples since ancient times. In 2018, the Korkut Ata Heritage was included in the UNESCO list of “intangible cultural Heritage”. Shortly after that, in 2019, the discovery of the third version in the Iranian region of Turkmen Sakhra increased the importance of this relic in world literature. Since 2019, the third version has been actively discussed between scientists-Turkologists of the world. Initially, three academic publications were published in Turkish, prepared by a group of researchers led by N.Shahgoli and Metin Ekiji, Yusuf Azmun. All three works included facsimiles, transcription of the manuscript, translation to Turkish, a frequency dictionary, and discovery of the relic. Later, the same format was printed in Azerbaijani and Uzbek. The third version of the “Korkyt Ata book” is one of the topical themes for Kazakh science. Therefore, this article discusses the features of the third version. In the step of the discovery, the physical feature of the manuscript is analyzed. Regarding the parable of Korkyt and the new epic in the third version, the opinions of scientists are differentiated, and they are presented by a comparative table. As a result, the feature of the third version was discovered, in which 23 parables and a new epic “The Murder of the seven-headed dragon by Salur Kazan” were used.