Epos Is An Ethnic Source

Abstract If eposes in folklore science are searched as literary in XX century hermeneutic method is used to search its ethnic information. Epic poems of world people as Odyssey Iliada Makhabkharata Manas have been searching historically in different levels. But in soviet period folklore was searched according to the typological analysis and limited defining literary similiarities of the following nationalities eposes as Russian Kazakh Uzbek Azerbaijan Turkmen Tajik Karakalpak and Khakas Tuva Sakha in Altay. Rightly the eposes such as Korkyt ata kitaby Koruglu Kobylandy Alpamys Geser Zhangar historical-ethnical characteristics are clear. In these eposes ethnos names are saved their historical activities are described with literary language. This article deals with the problem of searching eposes of Turkic people according to hermeneutic method and the aim is to define their ethnical characteristics. Different research methods and methodological basis are considered.