THE PLACE OF TOTEM CONCEPTS IN THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL THOUGHT

Abstract

The article talks about the totemistic features of the image of the wolf in the imagination of the peoples of the world. Common and general features of this image are analyzed. Totemism originates from the belief that a person is often associated with an animal or plant, sometimes with an inanimate object or natural phenomena. It is explained that the ancestors of the Turkic peoples, including the Uzbek clans, worshiped the sun, water, and fire, and later they believed in horses, oxen, snakes, wolves, dogs, and other animals. We saw this in the form of a lone wolf