THE GENRE FUNCTION OF THE TRADITION OF DREAM INTERPRETATION IN THE KAZAKH HEROIC EPOSES
This article examines interpretation of dreams as an ethnographic object and its role in the plots of Kazakh heroic epics is determined. Dreaming and dream interpretation in epic compositions is not a self-evident object, but a phenomenon that is associated with the conditions for depicting everyday life in the genre, with the rules of poetics, the causes and consequences of the event in the work. The article analyzes the following functions of dream interpretation: plot development, transfer of the event of heroic epics from one stage to another; sometimes to link these events; inform the main character about a future positive or negative event; direct the character to an active action; role in revealing the artistic image of the main character. Dreams are seen by the hero himself, his relatives or the enemy side, etc. All the dreams of the characters, regardless of whether they are main or secondary, each has its own role in the formation of the genre of the heroic epic.