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visit turkmenistan travel to turkmenistan tours to turkmenistan www.kosmostrip.net stronger than his wife, his children, himself. It is interesting to watch how solicitously he tends the horse, how he dresses it to protect against frost or sultriness, what luxuri- ous appointments decorate his saddle, when riding an adorned steed in rags he looks rather queer. But the Turkmen horses are really magnificent and worthy of such caring: every word about their quickness and endurance is not in the least exaggerated”. When adapting to historical circumstances, the Turkmens led both nomadic and settled mode of life, promoted powerful states and receded to the uninhabited desert, conquered countries and were deprived of sway, however the aforesaid failed to shake their inner life routine, obeyed to stable laws of their spirit. True apprentices of their nature they have learnt the essentials: maximum adaptation to the conditions, wherein they had to live, and survive, and enjoy the life. Neither indigence nor wealth, neither heyday nor decline, neither years nor centuries has altered the main thing in this lifestyle - their attitude to the life as such, to those natural primary sources that have merged in a solid alloy of labour, inspiration and vital necessity. A Turkmen has united the aforesaid with a brilliant simplicity and ingenuous wisdom. A son of the des- ert, he created a universal world model for himself, equally capable to be and remain of full value, disregarding the socium forms - from a powerful state to a scattered nomad encampment, from the royal palace to the shepherd’s tent. On this very land the wealth as such couldn’t play the part it usually played in other geographical latitudes where life weal was more accessible, but spiritual - cheaper.A steed was the basic wealth criterion for a Turkmen, properly speaking, the steed laid the foundation for the life universality, when material and spiritual aspects blended in an indissoluble unity. Perhaps, the first carpet, woven by a Turkmen woman, came into being thanks to the steed. For the woollen horse-cloth that covered the steed performed a training function in addition to a protective one – to maintain a withered and elegant shape. To make the steed perspire, a thick pure-wool mantle was required, - hence the manufacturing of fine-fleeced wool of Saraja sheep began - one more ancient selection product of the Turkmen land. Most likely, precisely in those days an eminent Turkmen carpet emerged that side by side with the steed preordained the people’s way of life for centuries. These two creatures of nature and human hands, equally useful and won- derful, also predetermined the world outlook and behaviour, and habits, and a physical form of a Turkmen-horseman and his faithful concomitant - a wife - “the Amazon”. In a minute such family was able to forsake the place and a swift-footed racer took them away from a danger to a place, where they just laid a carpet to continue the life... No woman in the world takes a seat on the carpet and rises from it as gracefully as the Turkmen woman does till nowadays. Formerly, with the same easiness and graceful- ness she could saddle a steed, vigorously and skillfully wove a horsecloth-saddlecloth for it and adorned the latter with an unusually beautiful pattern and elegant tassels - an indis- pensable attribute of such horse attire. The carpet from the Pazyryk burial mound of Altai was decorated with the portrayal of such exactly saddlecloth with tassels! Having sharpened and perfected natural traits of their racer and made it a family member and warrior-brother-in-arms, possessing equal rights, the Turkmens have acquired that unifying link the nation so needs in its formerly fragmented social and ancestral structure. Worshipping a steed with all might of their spiritual mould, perceiving it as a remedy for rehabilitation of a single lifestyle, owing to the “divine argamak”, they have developed such steadfast properties of their own as a fortitude, intrepidity and patriotism that covered their history with glory of the magnanimous, proud and invincible nation.