New myth elements

The article discusses the main elements of myth and poetics in Kazakhstani prose. In Kazakhstani literature, the main postulate is still in demand that the only right way to revive the spiritual essence of Kazakh is in returning to one’s national origins, history, ethnos, connection with nature, in returning to national moral values, that is, to myth, folklore, to its deepest sacred meaning. The reference in literature and culture to national roots, mythology and folklore as sources and patterns of national identity actualized in Kazakhstani reality of independence period (the 1990s – 2016). Mythological genetic (totem consciousness, zoomorphic and chthonic mythology, archetypes and ritual thinking) are in the focus of Kazakhstani literary new myth.