About the Index of Epic Themes (from the creating experience)
The article gives the description of thematic structure of songs of Kalmyk and Xinjiang-Oirat versions of the “Dzhangar” epos. The author comes to a conclusion that analysis of safety and modiﬁcation, dynamics and statics, productivity and unproductiveness of thematic components of the epos allows to solve some issues of formation and existence of the epic text both within the framework of local epic tradition and of general epic level.