The Uzbek People’s Religious Sayings of Prohibition and Prophecy

Abstract

This article explores the artistic and aesthetic evolution of the inonch saying genre, the transformation of proverbs into a speech tradition, the content and artistry of parem works, features of a national character, and their focus on everyday practice. It is emphasized that small folklore genres, which are part of the paremik type and perform mainly economic and utilitarian functions, are an important source for revealing aspects of the ethnopoetics of the Uzbek folk oral art.