REFLECTION OF THE OLDEST TENGRIAN NOTIONS ABOUT THE PRIMORDIAL CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE AND MAN IN THE COMMON EURASIAN DEPICTION OF THE MOTIF "WOMAN GIVING BIRTH BABY-TOTEM"
The article deals with the image of the «woman giving birth baby» and the semantic block «woman giving birth baby - totem» on the petroglyphs of Eurasia during the Paleolithic - Bronze Age. Based on the method of projecting ethnographic data on archaeological sources, comparative religious method, taking into account the historical genetic and cultural ties between the ethnos, the author draws parallels between the Asian, European, Caucasian and Sayan-Altai beliefs about the divine ancestors of the universe and man. Expanding evidence Catalhoyuk and Siberian-Mongolian analogies, to establish a firm mythological and ethnographic Tengri-Kama ground for interpretation of stories Catalhoyuk monuments of the Neolithic, petroglyphs of the bronze age in the south of Western Siberia, Baikal, Altai and Mongolia; With reliance on the volcanic hypothesis of the emergence of Tengri-Kama worldview; taking into account the data of archeology of the presence of ancient people in the period of ancient Paleolithic in Tuva, and in connection with the localization of geographers and historians of «the kingdom of Yama», «the house of Yama» in the Sayano-Altai mountain system, the author comes to the conclusion that the ancient (the Paleolithic and the Neolithic) and prevalence throughout Eurasia Tengri-Kama outlook.