Attitude to suicide in the Tengri culture

Abstract

Official statistics states that in terms of the number of completed suicides, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is among the top ten regions in Russia. In order to study the cause of the frequency of the social phenomenon among the indigenous population more deeply, an attempt was made to consider the completed suicide from the point of view of Tengrism as a religious system of the Sakha people. The authors of the theoretical article believe that the attitude of the indigenous population to the phenomenon of the destruction of the most important value - life - is determined by the cultural code embedded in the believes. The study of literature led to the understanding that in the religion of Tengri there is no death as the disappearance of the Soul, but there is reincarnation and an endless cycle of reincarnations. That is, it can be assumed that in the belief of Tengrianism, suicide, as the destruction of life, is absent and there is no any definite attitude to it.