Abstract:

Abstract: This paper examines the sustainable forms of life in nomadic culture that are transmitted non-verbally, through verbal-musical formulas. These forms are studied through structural analysis of spatial and numerical positions, forms, structures, and qualities, as well as the integrity of cultural texts such as the concept of the tribal culture «Zheti Ata» - seven fathers. «Zheti Ata» is a social regulator that prohibits marriages within the clan up to the seventh generation and represents an ethno-sign function with a temporal structure, being an integral part of the clan's territory, combining spatial and temporal categories. In the analysis of the clan's numerical structure, a stable spatial formula of interaction is revealed: «4» + «3» = «7», where the four original ancestors «aruaktar» create a symbolic sacred frame «4» for the earthly family - «birata» «3», consisting of three generations, as opposing positions «oli-tiri» - «living-dead». The system of seven fathers with internal transformations is considered in structural and spatial transitions, and the development of the clan structure «zheti ata» is interpreted as a special type of spatial relationships, built on the basis of centrifugal connections - center and periphery and spherical spatial integrity, implementing topological transitions of subject-object and spatial-temporal transformations in nomadic culture.

Key words: structuredness, exogamous system «zhetі ata», spatio-temporal system, semiosphere, initiation by masks, formulaicity, patronym, three-generation family, reverse perspective.